“You live in a time that thinks it can ignore the human condition.”
Rainbows End took the Hugo– Vinge’s fifth– for best novel at WorldCon last August. It’s a strong entry, but arguably not Vinge’s best work.
“You live in a time that thinks it can ignore the human condition.”
Rainbows End took the Hugo– Vinge’s fifth– for best novel at WorldCon last August. It’s a strong entry, but arguably not Vinge’s best work.
chad writes, Ridley Scott sat down with Wired and discussed the upcoming “final” version of Blade Runner.
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The 1956 classic that wires Shakespeare to Sci-Fi pulp, serves as Star Trek’s unofficial pilot, introduced the electronic score to SF films and Robbie the Robot to pop culture, and gets referenced in the Rocky Horror theme chorus finally receives its Bureau review.
That other superwoman named “Sommers” returns to television, a little darker than her 70s incarnation.
Real-life Meteor Freaks? The coolest extrasolar planets? Mutants bred by space radiation?
Here’s a round-up of recent stories that hint at hoary sf clichés of yore.
This site flies in the face of what many people turn to SF to find, but it makes for thought-provoking reading.
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This will be for me the final Countdown. I lost interest some issues ago, and cannot recommend this to anyone but DC completists.
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Kelley Armstrong‘s most recent
novel, No Humans Involved
achieved mainstream bestseller status, and movie rights have been purchased for some of her works. I plan eventually to review the entire series. It begins with this novel, Armstong’s take on lycanthropy.
chad writes, Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel Of Time series, passed away yesterday.
We look this week at a comparatively recent film (2006) that we missed first time around. For that matter, so did most people. It’s doing a little better on DVD.
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream) spent six year trying to get this film made. Original stars Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett quit, funding was slashed, original set pieces were auctioned….