The Magazine of Fantasy and SF is giving away a certain number of copies of the September issue to bloggers to cover. The terms are:
1) Go to our “Contact Us” page: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/contact.htm
2) Tell us where to mail your copy of the issue.
3) Receive the issue and blog about it. Naturally, we prefer if you read [...]
I caught up with the The Illusionist yesterday and its once of those films that takes it time to seep in. Like The Prestige, it concerns itself with the mechanics of illusion though it never reveals its best work.
It is also far less baroque than Nolan’s film, revelling in its simplicity.
What really intrigued me about [...]
Cory Doctorow has declared today, July 11th, Fair Use Day. I’m sure that Cory (actually I’ve heard him speak on the subject so I know he would) would put this more eloquently but any restrictions of Fair Use are, frankly, immoral and counter-productive.
The reasoning behind this blog is taken from a short extract from his [...]
Charles Stross has this great piece on the future of history on the BBC site. A thoughtful and quite unsettling piece, all in all. As far I as I remember from the podcast recorded a while ago with him, the idea of living fully recorded lives features in Halting State.
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William Gibson’s next novel, Spook Country, is due in August and it sounds like an awesome one: set one year in the past. The College Crier has an interview which both Futurismic and BoingBoing are linking to here but it looks like the Slashdot/Digg effect has taken place so take care.
Gibson is one of those [...]
Adam Roberts’s first novel was Salt which was shortlisted for the Clarke award. He has published several novels, parodies and studies of sf since then as well as having a job as a Professor of English.
Given your day job, what interests you in writing sf or parodies of recent films?
I write the parodies because they’re [...]
Just saw Ginger Snaps Back which was on the box last night. Its kind of nice to catch up with that little series again, certainly after seeing Katharine Isabelle in Supernatural a couple of weeks ago. Despite being the third film, this was the prequel film.
I’d forgotten how much of an update that the [...]
In one of those serendiptous moments, I discovered that there was an Alice day being organised for today by the Story Museum, a virtual museum which celebrates telling stories until a building can be built in Oxford.
Alice is too deeply engrained in culture to rehash but this was a chance to see copies of [...]
Chris Roberson’s excellent novel, Set the Seas on Fire, is to be published shortly by Solaris. I’ve just reviewed it for Interzone and really cannot recommend it highly enough. His novella, Voyage of Night Shining White was reviewed a little while ago.
In The Voyage of Night Shining White, I got the sense that you focus [...]
JK Rowling said that she was sad to write the final words of Deathly Hallows and wrote them in a hotel. Apparently scar is not the final word as had been surmised but it is near the end. I’m still up for Potter and Voldemort to take each other out. We’ll see in two weeks [...]