At the Venice film festival (being feted on the BBC for Keira Knightley in Atonement), Ridley Scott has opined that the sf genre is dying filmwise and Paul Howlett somewhat disagrees. Scott argues that it is tired and unoriginal but is some of this, I’m sure comes from the major studios trying to get quick […]
Shaenon Garrity over on LiveJournal found an article regarding Edward Gorey’s love of Star Trek , though he claims to have never watched the Trouble with Tribbles episode. Well she’s put this right with a great cartoon.
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Cory Doctorow has written an impassioned piece on BoingBoing regarding the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Inc’s (SFWA) use of the DMCA to take down work from Scribd. It appears that they were removed after an email was sent to them claiming that these infringed on the rights of Asimov and Silverberg but […]
Wired have an interview with the designers of the Golden Compass game and the challenges that they faced with the differing audiences. The discussion about (re-)creating the universe of both Pullman and Weitz is intriguing and pertinent to shared universes.
The game will be available on the following platforms from November 23rd: PSP, Xbox, PC, PS2, […]
I’m in the process of changing ISPs so if you are trying to email me in the next few days, please do bear with me whilst I disconnect and reconnect. Well what are holidays for apart from sorting out the domestic IT issues.
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I’ve just come across this Simpsons meets Star Wars spoof lovingly prepared by a guy named Rich Cando. It looks like there are a few more of the around as well. At under a minute, its about the right length and the cae that he’s taken over the creation is wonderful.
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A short while ago,I wrote up Thief with No Name by Emily Gee. She was kind enough o answer a couple of questions about the book.
What drove you to write your novel?
I loved the darkness of the story–although obviously there are much darker fantasy novels out there–and I really enjoyed writing Thief. It was the […]
The Comparative Media Studies course at MIT has placed it theses on fandom online. Some aren’t linked but there are some interesting studies on there. The course is taught by Henry Jenkins, to whom I’ve linked before and who is a raging super fan of things.
It also intrigues me because I’d like to see the […]
Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee have developed a new site, Science Fiction Awards Watch, to contain all the news about sf awards. It will have:
- A list of awards, with details of how they are decided
- Prompt news about these awards, including live reporting from some award ceremonies
- A recommendation list (covering many awards, not […]
According to SFScope, Tor are debuting their podcasts at Worldcon this year with daily shows interviewing authors and discussing panels and so on. They will be available from the Tor/Forge podcast site, iTunes, Yahoo, Google and RSS. The series will continue from September 12th with regularly scheduled casts.
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