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 story and string visual style that will translate well into a game, but because the [...]

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 book that really put him on the map (and me in a boat load of [...]

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 today? Jonathan Lethem questions possibly not, there is something about him that resists the being added [...]

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. Yet that would be an oversimplistic reading.
Returning to the Inhibitor universe  first set up [...]