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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Greg Bear’s Eon makes it CG
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 … Continue reading
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Radio Four
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 … Continue reading
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Alice as Soviet literature?
An intriguing story about the translation of Alice into Russian.
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Telling stories in games
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, … Continue reading
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Does Britain Matter?
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 … Continue reading
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BBC 7 sf short story – Zoran Zivkovic
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. technorati tags:zoran zivkovic, sf, fantasy
Nine Inch Nails
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 … Continue reading
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Rosicrucian doodads
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 … Continue reading
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Right fantastic (4) – Chaz Brenchley interviewed
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, … Continue reading
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Right fantastic (3) – Stan Nicholls interviewed
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 … Continue reading
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