The Guardian have a piece on Jan Svankmajer’s work as the short film DVD collection is released by the BFI.
Svankmajer’s work is not to everybody’s taste - dark allegories about the abuse of power - but his art is superb and makes the viewer think. I sort of think of him as the puppeteer version [...]
The excellent 30 days of nights is being made into a film and those fine folk over at Horror Movies have a selection of photos available.
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The folk over at the His DarkMaterial.org have a interview with some of the technical team for the forthcoming film.
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Joe Gordon over on the Forbidden Planet blog has a link to Henry Jenkins’s piece on comics and cities. Cities and literature have a symbiotic relationship which we often overlook - Batman and Gotham, Superman and Metropolis and so on. Manga as well often uses cityscapes where the city is the unspoken character. This is [...]
The July issue of Esquire magazine (and I’m assuming that annoyingly this will only be the US version) has a short story called the Gingerbread Man by Stephen King. Apparently his next novel, Duma Key, grew out of the short. There are currently no plans to reprint it though. If it turns up on their [...]
Publisher’s Lunch has a short note that Terry Brooks’ Shannara series has been picked up for filming by Warner. It’ll probably take the second book “The Elfstones of Shannara” for a starting point.
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How would you describe interstitial art? Indeed, how do you define interstitial? What made it interesting to you both?
Delia: I can’t define it. Trying to define it has gotten me into a lot of trouble with the people to whom clear definitions are important and useful. My story (and I’m sticking to [...]
The Guardian spoke to Michael Chabon about his new book, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Its an intriguing interview with a fine author.
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The New York Times continues its love affair with Phil Dick in this op-ed piece. The thing that made me curious was the last paragraph - the sf writers’ jobs were to report from the future.
No, no, no.
Sf - well decent sf - is about the present but it uses the milieu of the future [...]
UKSFBooknews has this short interview with Kim Stanley Robinson on the genesis of this next book, The Galilieans. Its due in 2009 but I really can’t wait that long. Its interesting that three major writers have gone back to the birth of science now - the others being Stephenson and Morrow. I wonder if it [...]