The CGSociety has been running CG challenges for a little while and the latest is Greg Bear’s Eon. The finalist trailers look great without the clunkiness that sort of killed Final Fantasy.
It seems like a good idea to turn hard sf into film and both Bear and David Brin were involved in the judging.
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Just occasionally (yes, a blue moon was indeed in the sky above me) sitting in traffic jams can be useful. Whilst try to get to work this morning, the Today programme on Radio Four had an article about the current vogue for thanks at the front of books.
There was a nice little comment about writing that […]
An intriguing story about the translation of Alice into Russian.
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The Wonderland blog is at the SXSW festival and carries this interesting article on story telling in games. As you might have gathered from the interviews with Write Fantastic, I’m intrigued by the way that different media use story telling, particularly in genre, as they mash them selves up - see James Barclay and Juliet […]
One of the questions posed to Write Fantastic was one which I thought would be simple and interesting - can the Matter of Britain be revived? It intrigued me that Arthur was immedatialy pounced on (but yes I could probably live without reading much more cod-Arthurian stuff). John Masefield’s Box of Delights deals with the legend […]
Zoran Zivkovic had a short stroy read on BBC7. If you have’t caught up with this fantastic writer, now’s the time to start. He’s one of those rare treats.
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NIN’s juggernaut rolls on through the Internet on this site, Symphony of Noise,which has MP3 of the forthcoming album and a link to the Survivalism video. Anyhow two things. Firstly , this strikes me a curiously apt take on Charles Stross’s comments about American writing about the near future and the pessimism thereof - just […]
Okay this has little to do with sf and genre strictly but anybody who is interested in Mary Gentle’s writing really must visit this link to Rosicrucian war machines from 1626: Robert Fludd which I got from those sorted folk at Boing Boing. It is excellent that the basis for the counter-factual history Gentle has […]
Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
Direct to the bad place, if we don’t fight back. Getting there via ever-decreasing circles. Continuing to pass Go en route, for a while, and so collecting dosh, but getting dizzier and dizzier, and…
Enough bad boardgame metaphor! But seriously, it’s just another […]
Where is fantasy going with market expectations of constant pace and action?
The expectation that fiction should be pacey and action-packed isn’t restricted to fantasy. But I’m not sure I agree with the implication of the question - I don’t think these aspects are necessarily a prerequisite to writing […]