Thanks for visiting SciFi Stream. You may have noticed a new look to the site this week, and there are a few other changes to go with it.
But first, a little background. For the last few years this site has served two purposes: 1) to provide quick-reference episode guides to all my favorite science fiction and fantasy series, and 2) to aggregate top news headlines from some of my favorite genre news sites, including Airlock Alpha, Blastr (formerly SCI FI Wire), TrekMovie, and the Stargate site that I also run, GateWorld. From time to time we’d also publish some original news items and interviews, but for the most part the headlines that came streaming onto the home page were links to other sites.
I’ve had so much fun covering the Stargate franchise over the past decade that I’ve always loved the idea of writing news, doing reviews, and cast and crew interviews for the many other shows that I love. But since GateWorld keeps me plenty busy, and I also have a family and am working to finish a PhD thesis by 2012, that’s never been realistic. Great volunteer writers are harder to come by than you might think, and the site just doesn’t make enough to pay its bills and hire some freelancers. So, I went with aggregated headlines, instead.
Starting this week, I’m reinventing what SciFi Stream is.
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