China Miéville has produced an urban fantasy novel, three Bas-Lag books and a collection of short stories. Perhaps seeking a new direction, perhaps inspired by a certain other British author’s success with the YA market, his latest takes a twelve-year-old through a grimy looking-glass to a magic world facing peril.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
COROT gets its first shot of an extra-solar planet
I imagine we’ll hear news like this regularly in the near future.
52 #49-52
The account of DC’s missing year finishes with #52.
Only once will spoiler tags will be used in this review. If you read further, expect to learn many things which were revealed in this series.
Brainwave “reading” toys
These could represent another “wave” of the future.
Special appearance by Darth Vader.
Habitable Planet?
It’s a little large and orbits a dwarf star, but this recently-detected extrasolar planet falls in the Goldilocks Zone and may be inhabitable
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Post-Penguicon ’07
Liquid nitrogen, Charles Stross and Bruce Schneier waxing Brazilian about the future of spyware, surveillance, and privacy, and Elizabeth Bear engaging M. Keaton over women in genre. The Aegis Sword Academy, caffeinated everything, great room parties, faux gun-battles in the halls: experience a hotel filled entirely with nerds.
Comic Review: World War III
Yeah, we know, but it’s Wednesday….
DC planned 52 as a stand-alone series that would explain how their Universe moved from the end of Infinite Crisis to their current continuity.
Somewhere along the line, they decided to add a four-issue crossover mini-series that answers several of the significant questions.
The Children of Hurin
Children of Hurin, constructed by Tolkien’s son from his father’s notes and The Silmarillion, may become a
movie.
Time has an article on the book here.
Ray Bradbury wins special Pulitzer
Ray Bradbury has won a Pulitzer Special Citation for his “deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.”
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Review: The Atrocity Archives
If we pursue this plan, by late 2006 any two adjacent public CCTV terminals — or private camcorders equipped with a digital video link — will be reprogrammable by any authenticated MAGINOT BLUE STARS superuser to permit the operator to turn them into a SCORPION STARE basilisk weapon. We remain convinced that this is the best defensive posture to adopt in order to minimize casualties when the Great Old Ones return from beyond the stars to eat our brains (273).
This volume includes three pieces: Charles Stross’s eponymous Lovecraftian spy thriller, the Hugo-award winning Concrete Jungle, and “Inside the Fear Factory,” a reflection on spies, the Cold War, Lovecraft, horror, and hackers.