The Best of SFOR Facebook: The Early Days, May – July 2018

Nov 6, 2018 In: Dirty Robot (Daniel Isles) Fantasy Illustration John Berkey Moebius Peter Elson Round Up Sci-Fi Scientific Wayne Barlowe By: Ben

Earlier this year, Sci-Fi-O-Rama made some big changes. Kieran was joined by Ben and Erik, and what had long been a solo project suddenly became a team effort. Working together, the team has branched into new types of content: the Classic Sci-Fi Illustrators series, the original fiction series from CG Inglis, and focus pieces on real-world science.

Perhaps the biggest change, however, has been our expansion into Facebook. Begun to reach new audiences and give us a means of sharing ‘quick’ bite-sized content, the Facebook page has rapidly evolved to become a vital part of Sci-Fi-O-Rama experience. We post on Facebook daily and have a growing, engaged audience of several hundred (so far!) Sci-Fi enthusiasts following our posts!

Sci-Fi-O-Rama is Back on Spotify, Part 2

Oct 25, 2018 In: Concept Art Music Sci-Fi By: Ben

Sci-Fi-O-Rama returns to Spotify with another selection of new music for your ears!

This time, Ben has pushed further on the aesthetics of his last playlist – moody, ominous textures, punctuated with a bit of shimmering beauty and a few outright bangers. If wandering through cities under grey skies is your sort of thing, Ben is targeting this list right at you.

Listen to it here:

SFOR2018: Ben Selects II

A Seer: Fiction from CG Inglis, Part 4

Oct 19, 2018 In: A Colour Like Orange CG Inglis Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Weird By: Ben

Sci-Fi-O-Rama presents the fourth installment of “A Colour Like Orange: Stories from a Broken World“, a series of interlocking stories from Toronto writer CG Inglis.

In this month’s story, a freelance photographer takes a job documenting the city’s homeless population. What she thought would be a simple gig turns complicated when she meets Maria, a homeless woman who can see what others can’t. In a world full of holes, it can be easy to fall in…

CG Inglis takes us along winding cracks and into dark spaces in “A Seer“.

Street Fantasies: The Wild World of DirtyRobot

Oct 17, 2018 In: Fashion Illustration Sci-Fi Street Art By: Ben

Journey to the near future imagined by Daniel Isles where masked gangs rove the streets, telekinetic teenagers wander in clouds of floating candy and machine bits, and giant robots face-off over cyberpunk cityscapes. Better known by his internet alias, DirtyRobot, his world is one where anthropomorphic tigers, multi-armed cyborgs, and levitating witches brush shoulders. His work is wild and wide-ranging in concept, but rendered in a clear graphic hand that fuses it into a natural, stylish whole.

The Ride: Fiction from CG Inglis, Part 3

Sep 12, 2018 In: A Colour Like Orange CG Inglis Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Weird By: Ben

Sci-Fi-O-Rama is back with the third installment of “A Colour Like Orange: Stories from a Broken World“, a series of interlocked stories from Toronto writer CG Inglis.

This month’s story takes us out of the cloistered spaces of the Institute and onto the hard streets of the Capital, where a teenage boy is taking his first ride with his step-sister’s crew of bikers. More than anything he wants to prove he belongs, but to do so he’ll have to ride harder and faster than he ever thought possible.

CG Inglis guns the throttle with “The Ride“.

Kaleidoscopic Chaos: The Graphic Art of Bicicleta sem Freio

Aug 13, 2018 In: Art Graphics Illustration Low Palette Psychedelic Street Art By: Kieran

Next we turn Sci-Fi-O-Rama up to eleven and present a retina-searing selection of art from Brazilian graphic and street art duo Douglas de Castro and Renato Reno, better known as Bicicleta sem Freio.

‘Bicicleta sem Freio’ is Portuguese for “bicycle without brakes” and it’s an apt moniker for a style that jams the visual cortex with a chaotic barrage of psychedelic illustration and design. Beautiful girls, 80s dogtooth patterns and disassembled bodies are woven through hard geometric shapes and rendered in a highly saturated palette, carefully chosen for maximum punch and underscored with a quirky sense of humour.

Clinical Trial: Fiction from CG Inglis, Part 2

Aug 10, 2018 In: A Colour Like Orange CG Inglis Fiction Horror Sci-Fi Weird By: Ben

Sci-Fi-O-Rama returns with the second installment of “A Colour Like Orange: Stories from a Broken World“, a series of interlocked stories from Toronto writer CG Inglis.

This month’s story delves into the mysterious Institute for Applied Research, where a young woman agrees to take part in a clinical trial to treat her chronic anxiety. When the treatment moves beyond anything she could have expected, she will find herself tested to the very core of her being.

Read on to find out what awaits her in “Clinical Trial“.

Icelandic Tigers and Von Karman Vortices: Landsat Imagery

Aug 8, 2018 In: Photography Photomontage Science By: Kieran

Sci-Fi-O-Rama presents Landsat false-colour composite photographs from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) archives. All images are selections from the USGS Landsat series ‘Earth as Art‘.

What is Landsat? Well, the clue is in the name. The Landsat program is a series of Earth-imaging satellites, jointly operated by USGS and NASA. Now on its 8th generation of satellites, the program dates back to 1972 with the launch of Landsat 1. Imagery produced by Landsat is used to study a multitude of topics; disaster relief, forestry conservation, glacial retreat and agricultural forecasting to name only a few.

Impossible Architectures: The Works of Filip Dujardin

Aug 6, 2018 In: Art Filip Dujardin Photography Photomontage Sci-Fi Sculpture By: Ben

Starting his career as an architectural historian, Belgian artist and photographer Filip Dujardin has used his knowledge of contemporary vernacular architecture to create a body of remarkable speculative works. Reassembling everyday weathered elements of the contemporary built environment using photo-collage and rendering techniques, Dujardin builds edifices that look both ordinary and utterly impossible.

A Colour Like Orange: Fiction from CG Inglis, Part 1

Jul 9, 2018 In: A Colour Like Orange CG Inglis Fiction Genres Horror Sci-Fi By: Ben

The Sci-Fi-O-Rama team is excited to be taking the site in a new direction with our first foray into original fiction!

Over the coming year, we will be presenting “A Colour Like Orange: Stories from a Broken World“, a monthly series of interlocked stories from Toronto writer CG Inglis.

Riding the edge between gritty realism and vivid speculation, CG’s stories take us to a world much like our own, but with the boundaries of reality wearing thin. Strange forces slip into the world through the cracks, and otherwise ordinary people find their lives drastically changed as they slip out. At the crux of it all is a mysterious substance called “powder” and the powerful Institute of Applied Research which strives to understand and harness its potential.

Combining elements of cyberpunk, psychedelia, and psychological horror, CG Inglis has created a work that we found arresting and stylish – a great match for the aspirations of this site!

Without further ado, we proudly present the first instalment of the series, “A Colour Like Orange“.

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