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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Slice of SciFi reports that Warner have picked up the rights to the Oz books for future film development. Screenwriter Josh Olson and Mcfarlane toys/Spawn creator Todd Mcfarlane(Company link, Wikipedia) are hatching plans. Mcfarlane released the twisted Alice toys a few years ago (Alice in bondage, Toto as a warthog and, if I remember correctly, [...]
Playstationseason have adapted one of Steve Aylett’s short stories, The Man Who’s Head Expanded, into a great animation. This so needs further entries but I can highly recommend his novel, Lint, which is great fun and quite possibly his most accessible yet.
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The Sunburst award, hailing from Canada, has announced that it will begin a Young Adult section to its awards which are announced in Autumn.
Given the fact that the the YA genre bubble hasn’t burst, should organisations like the British Science Fiction Association or British Fantasy Society be thinking about similar entries? There is a large [...]
I’m not sure what the chip on Alistair Harper’s shoulder is* but his blog post for the Guardian on Stephen King is one of the more crass posts that I’ve read. Taking the recent story about Stephen King siging books in a small store in Australia and being mistaken for a vandal, he goes off [...]
PBS journalist, Charlie Rose, has created a fantastic archive of interviews with cartoonists over the years, including Charles Schulz. (via Forbidden Planet and BoingBoing). Well worth a visit.
Technorati Tags: cartoonists, charlie rose, comics, Graphica and Art, Interviews
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