SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 9/28/07

SF Tidbits for 9/28/07

Apparently he will be back...sort of. DVD Review reports that we can expect not just another sequel, but a whole new second Terminator trilogy! One of the films is likely to focus on the war of the machines.

Wired has an interview with Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner, the last sci-fi film to be made before sci-fi died. "You know, Alien is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by a great monster." "I honestly couldn't get into [Philip K. Dick's book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep]. It's so dense, by page 32 there's about 17 story lines.

Cinema Blend News has the teaser poster for Pixar's WALL-E.

File under "Why, God, why?": Tom Green and Crispin Glover have been cast in the sci-fi comedy film, Freezer Burn: the Invasion of Laxdale, which tells the story of aliens from outer space disguised as Dutch oil company executives who buy a local grain silo and promise to create jobs for a failing farm town, but secretly plan to use crop circles to heat up the temperature of the planet and turn Earth into a Club Med for extraterrestrials.

Interviews (The first 3 snagged from Swivet):
- CHUD interviews Richard K. Morgan (Thirteen). "I'm about telling the story, and I'll create whatever backdrop I need to do that as I go along. I don't like info-dumping, and I try to avoid it."
- Columbus Dispatch interviews Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates). "I've never sympathized with the idea of covertly commenting on the social and political issues of today. That's a fatal error. As soon as the reader notices the parallel, it prevents the suspension of disbelief."
- A Dribble of Ink interviews Brandon Sanderson (Elantris). "In my opinion a good book is a balance be-tween character, setting, and plot with character being the most important of the three. You can have the coolest magic system in the world, but if readers don't care about the characters who are using that magic system, the book won't be very fun to read."
- Simon Haynes interviews Tim Pratt (Blood Engines). "I'm not sure SF/Fantasy has a particular purpose that's different from the purpose(s) of all literature, which are variously to edify, to entertain, and to illuminate the human condition."
- Amazon Daily interviews M. John Harrison (Nova Swing). "SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun."

In response to their earlier post Does Literary Fiction Suffer from Dysfunctional Pricing?, LitKicks looks at the pleasures of paperbacks.

At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Ben Bova, author of The Aftermath, the fourth and final book in his Asteroid Wars series.

New at ManyBooks.net: "Pagan Passions" by Gordon Randall Garrett. "Adult Science Fiction, with the supernatural making complete sense."

Del Rey will be publishing new Indiana Jones books.

Besides a mini-Seinfeld reunion, the video for Brad Paisley's song "Online" features a cameo by William Shatner (at 3:14). [via Big Dumb Object via Deanna Hoak, who are hereby put on notice for making me listen to country music.]

"I honestly couldn't get into [Philip K. Dick's book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep]. It's so dense, by page 32 there's about 17 story lines.

ya ya ya Scott is a dick.....

but come on he didn't write the script and fundamentally he is cinematographer who knows how to edit a film so the story won't suck...he knows how to make movies that are beautiful to watch...

seriously watch Matchstick men, a fairly simple con job movie, and yet it is spectacularly beautiful.

Posted by joshua corning on Friday September 28, 2007 at 9:06 PM