SF Tidbits for 2/20/08
- io9 interviews Iain M. Banks about his latest Culture novel: Matter: "The universe is vast, uncaring and composed almost entirely of colossal quantities of nothing, and yet it is constantly throwing up examples of the bizarre and grotesque. Humour is a way of coping with this and also a kind of rejoinder to it; a reply in the same coin and tongue."
- Jesse Willis has a thoughtful essay up over at SFFAudio: Why History, Noir and pretty much anything else I like are really just Science Fiction, wherein he talks about sf definitions and philosophy: "It is my contention then, that 'Science Fiction,' and all its relatives, Horror, Fantasy and Noir, (H, F, N) are quite literally philosophical fiction in disguise."
- L.E. Modesitt, Jr. talks about the subjectiveness of quality when he asks How Many "Really Good Books?"
- Wordclay looks at Challenges Writers Face in the Sci-fi Genre: "Subtly and real human emotions are what make or break science fiction."
- Boing Boing points us to this way cool site of Classic SF movies rendered as Russian folk-art woodcuts. How many can you name?
- Sigourney Weaver is in the news: First, saying that Alien vs. Predator 2 makes her heartsick, then dashing hopes of a Ghostbusters III.
- Geekend tells us what should have happened (but didn't) in Spider-Man 3.
- Salon does a reverse MST3K by providing animated video for the soundtrack of the horrible classic sf film Atom Age Vampire. (Thanks, Tom M.!)
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| Posted by John on Wednesday February 20, 2008 - 12:02 AM
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