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 and one like the Culture, though darker. Are you aware of the two cultures or does […]
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 the Net at times.
What emerges are thoughtful and thought-provoking comments by Lethem on what you […]
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 story and string visual style that will translate well into a game, but because the […]
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 book that really put him on the map (and me in a boat load of […]
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 today? Jonathan Lethem questions possibly not, there is something about him that resists the being added […]
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. Yet that would be an oversimplistic reading.
Returning to the Inhibitor universe first set up […]
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 minute 50 seconds but hey, its Star Wars…
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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 fits in with my interest in Neal Stephenson and the conversations that Daniel Waterhouse has […]
“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 When You’re Sober which came off the Open Door cd which was on at around […]
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 complex underneath. I’m not entirely sure how one approaches it: is it quest fantasy? […]