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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Children’s dystopian fiction and guilty pleasures
Imogen Russell Williams has an intriguing piece on the children’s dystopian fiction on the Guardian books blog. It seems to me that it fits in well with one of the processes of children’s literature, that the discourse is there to … Continue reading
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Machinima shorts on the BBC
Tracy Harwood, the Manager of the Machinima Festival Europe 07, has an article on machinima which shows some of here favourites. I’ve looked at the form before but decided to leave to those who are good at it. The classic … Continue reading
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Snails in mirrors – Mirrorscape competition
Egmont Press have been in touch regarding a competition running on the Daily Telegraph‘s website about their book Mirrorscape by Mike Wilks. His trademark is to pop a snail into each illustration so the link is “Find the Snail for … Continue reading
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Gaiman sprinkles some stardust
The Guardian Book Review published a great article by Neil Gaiman on the fairy tale and the genesis of Stardust. It remains one of my favourite novels and I come back to each year as there is so much fun … Continue reading
The genesis of universes – Terry Brooks interviewed
Terry Brooks has just published Elves of Cintra, the latest in the Genesis of Shannara books. I caught up with him at Fantasycon and he was kind enough to answer a few questions. With the new series you are binding … Continue reading
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Tin House on Kelly Link and Angela Carter
Chris Barzak‘s blog mentioned the Kelly Link story in Tin House a couple of days ago (and which I urge you to read) but it also has the beginnings of a piece by Rick Moody on Angela Carter which is … Continue reading
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Disappearances of Golden Compass endings and Oxford
BridgetotheStars.net has a message from Chris Weitz about the change to the ending the first HDM film. It appears the final three chapters of the first book are going to be included in the next film for narrative sense so … Continue reading
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Jeff Vandermeer gets dark roasted
Jeff Vandermeer’s blog has this link to an interview with him on Dark Roasted Blend. Amongst the great art which features on Vandermeer’s covers is some good, thought provoking text which centres on the notion of individual taste in genre, … Continue reading
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Golden Compass trailer online
FirstShowing.net have the full trailer for Northern Lights The Golden Compass online (around 3 minutes long so it may be slow) and it looks stunning. The crafting that has gone into the Alethiometer and the CGI work on the the … Continue reading
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Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize
Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, only the 11th woman to have done so. She’s even written some sf to boot… Source: The GuardianĂ‚Â
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