Is sf film dying - Ridley Scott thinks so…

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 [...]

Edward Gorey’s Trouble with Tribbles

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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SFWA issues DMCA takedown notices

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 [...]