Monthly Archives: May 2007
Arias in Space – Alastair Reynolds interviewed
Alastair Reynolds’s Inhibitor Universe has made space opera rather exciting again. His new novel, The Prefect, is a prequel to the universe and a rather splendid book to boot. I felt that there were two cultures present – one”old-fashioned” one … Continue reading
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Updated Jonathan Lethem interview
A couple of days back, I wrote about the Jonathan Lethem interview that Totaldickhead had mentioned. Intriguingly the author, Frank Rose, has contact TDH and has shown them the full interview with Lethem which had been cut. I so love … Continue reading
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Beowulf movie game
Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary’s version of Beowulf has been turned into a compter game by Ubisoft. Roger Zemeckis, the director, commented: ” ‘Beowulf’ is particularly well-suited for the video game format. Not only does the film have a compelling … Continue reading
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Coraline in graphic novel form
Okay, this is possibly my second favourite Neil Gaiman novel but Joe Gordon at Forbidden Planet (by way of Educating Alice) has news of a graphic novel of Coraline. Although not his first bit of children’s fiction, this was the … Continue reading
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Phil Dick too legit?
The Total Dickhead blog has a commentary about whether PKD has now become legitimate with the Library of Congree release and a link to a Wired article on the publication. One of the Wired questions was would Dick be more succesful … Continue reading
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Singing the stars – Alastair Reynolds The Prefect reviewed
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds reminds me of those forgotten dreams of going deep into space and traversing the universe in fantastical ways. One can almost read Space Opera as a slightly more innocent version of the cynical post-cyberpunk SF that we have now. … Continue reading
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Star Wars
A short clip of the CGI version of Clone Wars is up at the Star Wars site. Visually it looks like the animated version but it’ll be interesting to see how it develops. Its only a short version at 1 … Continue reading
Browsing, disorder and ordered chaos
Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing has this link to Dave Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous. This book intrigues me in its chaos thesis of the web and how our lives are being re-ordered by the new atoms - bits. It also … Continue reading
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Red Riding Hood kicks out – Call Me When You’re Sober video by Evanscence discussed as fairy tale
“Call Me When You’re Sober” Video Shoot (Photo: Karl Larsen) Links to video on Evanescence site A while ago, when I first got digital, I caught one of the many MTV channels and saw the video for Evanescence’s Call Me … Continue reading
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Zen quests in Space – The Fountain on DVD
I’ve been waiting to watch The Fountain on DVD as it is one of those films that deserves watching again and again. Once again, Darren Aronofsky has delivered an extremely thoughful film which is so elegant in its simplicity yet … Continue reading
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