Sci-Fi Wire reports that Walden Media has bought the film rights to Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series. The story appears here.
Weekly DVD Picks – Tuesday, May 10, 2005
More DVDs are on the way this week. There’s a lot of
well received stuff out now.
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Free Comic Day Today
Today is Free
Comic Book Day. Stop by your favourite comic
retailer for samples of Batman, Fantastic Four, Star
Wars, The Simpsons, and a number of others, including
the little known independent titles that participate
in the event for additional publicity and visibility.
Novel Review: Mindscan
Robert J. Sawyer’s new novel looks at a near future where technology raises issues related to identity and personhood.
Enterprise Review: In a Mirror, Darkly (Part 2)
Evil. Like the fruits of the devil. Eeeeevil
Lost Review: “The Greater Good”
vanyel
has submitted a review of this week’s episode of
Lost. Read on for his/her/its perspective.
Smallville Review – “Ageless”
Twenty down, and two to go in the season. Two and a
half, if you count the extra long season finale.
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Weekly Comics Discussion – Wednesday, May 4, 2005
The shipping
lists for this week include a couple of noteworthy
items, including Essential Defenders Vol. 1
and Ultimate Fantastic Four #18. Items of
interest I won’t be picking up this week include the
trade paperback versions of Ultimate
Adventures, X-Men: Eve of Destruction,
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 5: Sins
Remembered, Human Torch Vol. 1,
Captain Britain, Hawkman: Wings of
Fury, JSA: The Golden Age, Preacher
Vol. 3, Swan Volume 3, Thundercats
Vol. 5, and Superman: The Action Archives
Vol. 4.
Orson Scott Card: Trek is dead? It’s about time!
Daemonik
writes, Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game
amongst many outstanding Sci-Fi novels, has thrown
down the gauntlet in the L.A.
Times and said that it’s about time that Trek has
died. What took so long?
Star Trek, as Card claims, is Sci-Fi as Hollywood saw
it, a throwback to the 30’s adventure stories with no
regard for science or deeper ideas and little interest
in plot arcs or character growth.
That writers like Ellison, LeGuin, Silverberg, Niven
and more were pumping out outstanding science fiction
stories with fertile passion makes the public’s near
religious adulation of Star Trek all the more
questionable. Faced today with examples such as
“Lost”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Firefly” and
“Smallville” to put the spotlight on just how bad Trek
really is, people are still fighting to save this
show.
So I ask you, does the death of Trek fill you with
childish glee or are you storming Paramount’s gates,
Batleths drawn?
Novel Review: Slaughterhouse Five
Listen:
Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
—Slaughterhouse Five, Chapter Two.
Praised, reviled, declared a classic, and banned by some school boards, Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut’s entertaining attack on human stupidity and the absurdity of war—even a war with aims he supports—remains a must-read. It is the second in my ongoing reviews of Vonnegut’s best novels. The review of Sirens of Titans appears here.