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 jab the reader into some sort of action to prevent the calamity. It does run [...]
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 Red versus Blue, an episodic story about two soldiers on opposing sides questioning their raison [...]
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 a chance to win £5,000″. He has created an exclusive version of the Map of [...]
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 to be had in it.
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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 together the Word and the Void and the Shannara series. How’s that working out for you [...]
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 frustratingly only excerpted.Carter is one of those authors whose writing I absolutely love but [...]
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 that one film has a good ending and the second a good beginning.
I suppose it [...]
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, something which we either take for granted or ignore. Well worth a read.
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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 bears and daemons is wonderful. I’m just hoping that it wil live up to my [...]
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 Guardian
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