Doctor Who?

Oh er, the season ending of Doctor Who was a bit of a cliffhanger with a teaser for the Christmas Special. (Perhaps). This season has had its ups and downs but the ending was definitely an up with the possibility of the Master not being dead and how will he get Martha back?

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Just going to the flicks in my closet, apparently

Slate magazine has a good, but a little short, article on the question about whether men can just go and see a film like 300 and not worry about whether they are gay or not. There may or may not be a homoerotic trait to the film, depending on how you view it, but can’t […]

Steampunk comic online

Lea Hernandez has posted her graphic novel, originally published in 1998, online under the creative commons licence. Steampunk really ought to come back, it was always a fun sub-genre. I suspect though that Gibson/Sterling’s Difference Engine was its zenith though.  
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Dinner with Joss Whedon?

Oh I so wish!
Dark Horse have just sent out a publicity leaflet about an eBay auction for dinner with Joss Whedon. Its not a candle light one, I’m afraid, but a chance to win a seat at his table during ComiCon this year. The auction will run from July 2nd to July 12th and there […]

Guardian on sf

Gareth McLean has an interesting article on the Guardian website, though a little incoherent, on tv sf (which predictably is called sci-fi all the way through) arguing the Battlestar Galactica is leading a new generation of shows into a darker era whilst travelling through the stars. He notes that sf is somewhat more political in […]

The end of the road for the book?

Bill Thompson has an article on the BBC website about the changing nature of the printed medium. As he points out, books will not be replaced by the Internet but they will co-exist in the same way the fountain pens co-exist with screens and biros.
Digital publishing will not replace the printed book because of the […]

Babylon 5 Lost Tales Trailer

The trailer for Lost Tales has gone online on the official site and looks intriguing. Shame the site is Flash heavy though.
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Hacker Crackdown being podcast

Cory Doctorow is podcasting Bruce Sterling’s seminal Hacker Crackdown. The text has been available for years as an free electronic text but this is the first time that it has been read aloud.
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My kingdom for a comic strip

The always interesting Book Slut has a really good article about reading comic strips in newspapers, something that too many people do not have the pleasure of doing. On my paperround, I used to read the Hagar strips one of the red tops and when I was in Israel with my dad, I read the […]

Back to the 70s - David Devereux’s Hunter’s Moon

Hunter’s Moon is perhaps one of the most appalling books that I have read this year and the real annoyance was that I had been looking forward to it. I have a sweet spot for the anti-hero magician type wandering around the place, like John Constantine and Mike Carey’s Felix Castor novels but this came […]