Blake's 7 Audio

I've been listening to these Blake's 7 audio versions of the TV show on cable. They are rather good. They are quite short so that I can listen to them in spurts at work.

The growth of technology implies a singularity, but for Science Fiction to be interesting there has to be a limit to the technology. You can't write a story about two super computers talking to each other.

A good way to limit the tech and enhance the humanity is to have progress halted by war, religion or politics. Blake's 7 uses politics. Earth is run by a totalitarian government that suppresses freedom and stifles technology. There is lots of neat tech stuff, but progress has been halted at a nice level where human interaction with machines is still where the people are in charge and things don't fix themselves. Good stuff. Now if I could only talk Erica into watching this instead of Disparate Housewives.


Science Fiction TV Series - Cast, Characters, Episodes - Blake's 7