Janet Maslin reviews Stephen King’s latest novel, Duma Key (Amazon), for the New York Times. She muses on the changing nature of horror in his work. I like the fact that he’s developed his horror and mutated it into the quiet, controlled way disturbances. No, he’s not the cutting edge or perhaps the force that [...]
Roger Sutton has a little article on the Horn Book blog about allowing children to see films or read books which push their boundaries. He develops it from A.O. Scott’s article in the New York Times about taking his children to see films outside their normal boundaries. In essence I applaud this as I think [...]
Oni Press are releasing a preview comic of Jumper, a soon to be released cool film of Steven Gould’s novel. Titled Jumpscars, it promises to reveal an ancient war that has been happening around us. Jumpers are individuals who can “jump” or teleport anywhere around the world whilst the Paladins have protected humanity from them. [...]
Holy cow, the Telegraph has an article that I actually agree with. They are running a list of 100 books that they think children should be read and Michael Morpurgo, the ex-Children’s Laureate, has an article about why schools are failing to teach reading. As he points out, there’s no point in teaching children to [...]
Tim Wu has this piece on the Rowling vs HP Lexicon running on Slate. Wu is a really smart legal bod who manages to write for real people and presents some legal context.
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Blogging La has news that Maila Nurmi, the original Vampira, has died. As she has no relatives the funeral is being arranged by friends after the legal proceedings have been sorted out.
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It’s weird what life reminds you to watch at times. I’ve been meaning to rewatch Tim Burton’s adaptation of Big Life (DVD) by Daniel Wallace (Book). My aunt called me with news that my father had had a deep vein thrombosis that popped on New Year’s. Since my passport has expired, I’m stuck here whilst [...]
SFScope provided a list of past and announced signings and kicked up this fine link to the New York Review of SF readings. The readings are taped by Jim Freund and broadcast on the Hour of the Wolf radio show and are available via the archive for eight months. There are some fine names on [...]
The judges for the Philip K Dick awards and the Philadelphia SF Society have announced the shortlist for the PKD award. It’s given for first paperback publication in the US.
The shortlist is:
Grey by Jon Armstrong (published by Night Shade Books)
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra)
From the Notebooks of Dr Brain by Minister Faust (Del Rey)
Nova [...]
I suspect that Michel Faber’s going blind after reviewing Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie now that the Peter Pan is finally out of copyright. Predictably the moral minority is up in arms but stuff it. Life’s too darn sort to care.
The Newsarama blog also has news on the works of Edith [...]