Warren Ellis has this piece on publishing on the web. Its an intriguing rant delivered by burst and states the bleeding obvious. The fact that it needs to be stated says something about views of the internet as publishing platform. The Net doesn’t really lend itself to long articles which you need to spend ages […]
This latest season has been a bit patchy to my mind but the current two parter is a bit of a barnstormer. The Doctor has become human to escape the Family and is living in 1913.
Perhaps some of this is wish fulfillment, an experiment in what happens if we make the Doctor human. There […]
Last night’s episode of Supernatural certainly took a turn for the darker with the werewolf episode.
The identity of the beast wasn’t really a surprise since recursive horror has been popular for quite sometime and there were one or two wasted loose ends which may have been interesting in terms of back story vignettes. What […]
The books section of the Guardian has an interview with Iain Banks whilst at the Hay on Wye festival. He talks about tearing up his passport, Steep Approach to Garbadale and the Culture. Now, if they’d had an interviewer who really cared about Banks or his work, I’d’ve been really happy, but nevertheless, Iain’s on good form […]
Inspired by a recent top 100 comics put together by Stephen Frug, Joe over at the Forbidden Planet International blog has come up with his own.
I like the choice of Ramadan, Sandman #50, although I’m more partial to the Midsummer Nights Dream issue of Sandman. However anybody that chooses P Craig Russell’s artwork is alright […]
Stephen Dedman over at No Fear for the Future has this interesting post on parallel worlds and their effects on film. It reminds me slightly of an Escape Pod story that was broadcast a while ago originally written by him which I’ve managed to loose on my computer. I’ll need to find it later. Highly […]
Paul di Filippo has posted the introduction to Tim Powers book, Strange Intineraries, on the Inferior Four blog. it says many true things about this author.
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The Guardian blog has a report from Cannes on the Golden Compass film and the anti-religious meanings for the Magisterium.
They have widened the scope of the body from just the anti-religion to being anti-authoritarian which sort of makes sense and is in keeping with the book. I’m warming up to it and will be curious […]
Fan fiction isn’t something that I’m terrirbly interested in per se (but in my previous life was sort of involved in). Making Light has a piece on FanLib, a new company whose pitch to industry is to set up a site where users can write fan fiction (within strict guidelines) and so be harnessed, it appears, as viral […]
Jim Macdonald over at Making Light has this piece about the push to print on demand books. Having worked in academic publishing (in a former life), I’m surprised this has taken so long to arrive in the fiction world.
Yes, its bad for authors because bookshops are not generally known for stocking the book so the customer has to […]