stargates

The thing is, there is so much potential for the use of stargates (see Hamiliton's Pandora's Star for example) that I feel the writers/producers were wasting it on cliched ideas.

Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'Message In A Bottle' (S02E07) 2009

Loyal Fan of all stargates you guys suck on stargate universe to many flashbacks, and for stoping the best show stargate atlantis bring it back.

INTERVIEW: Consulting Producer Joseph Mallozzi Talks About Plans for Stargate Universe 2009

IE - There needs to be stargates on the planets for our heroes to get off the ship and onto the planets.

How Did You Like the Series Premiere of Stargate Universe? 2009

I'm also building a cycle of stories -- the first of which appears in Gardner Dozois 'imminent space-opera anthology -- which gives a good kick in the balls to all those novels and stories that rely on networks of FTL stargates conveniently left behind by long-vanished alien races.

MIND MELD: Who are Your Literary Influences in the Ongoing Conversation of Science Fiction? 2009

When a new code is broken that reveals the location of stargates throughout the galaxy, Earth and its inhabitants are given the ability to travel through time to any point they wish instantaneously.

SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 105 2009

Why bother to send out ships to seed galaxies with stargates and then send out another ship to follow up?

How Did You Like the Series Premiere of Stargate Universe? 2009

When a new code is broken that reveals the location of stargates throughout the galaxy, Earth and its inhabitants are given the ability to travel through time to any point they wish instantaneously.

SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1152 2009

If others have used the conceit before us then the conventionality it accrues also makes it easier to swallow, situating it in its own ersatz nomology (hence the acceptance of FTL as a tradition of how the world works within genre SF, and hence the growing popularity of tropes like wormholes, stargates and jump-points as a more recent tradition).

Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

I loved the story driven slow build nature of it because it was such a refreshing change to the usual alien of the week feel of the other stargates as fun as they were.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Prof Boylan has lovely piece at his blog about SG Universe and sci-fi in general. 2010

If others have used the conceit before us then the conventionality it accrues also makes it easier to swallow, situating it in its own ersatz nomology (hence the acceptance of FTL as a tradition of how the world works within genre SF, and hence the growing popularity of tropes like wormholes, stargates and jump-points as a more recent tradition).

Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008