SF Tidbits Part XXXIII
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 at
10:58 am
- The first third of Tobias Buckell‘s novel, Crystal Rain, will be available beginning in January.
- LeVar “Geordi La Forge” Burton, previously a host of Reading Rainbow on PBS, is featured in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article where he mentions his appreciation of sf authors Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke.
- An original poster of Fritz Lang’s 1927 sf movie Metropolis sold for $690,000.
- SciFiWeekly reviews A Feast for Crows and gives it an A.
- Geek Trivia question: What science fiction novel did the Xbox 360 development chief require his team members to read? Answer. [Thanks to Donnie for the link.]
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- Feast of Crows Excerpt
- A Feast For Crows is Done! Really this Time!
- SF Tidbits Part XXIX
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- SF Tidbits Part XV
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Yes, nothing says “fully immersive virtual environment” like a mafia pizza kingpin having a dust-up with a aleut harpooner with a nuke.
I hope the X-Box crew figured out how to move your arms in the metaverse via goggles ‘cuz I sure didn’t.
The popularity of Snow Crash wouldn’t bother me so much if it made a lick of sense. Then again I stared blankly at Napoleon Dynamite for an hour before I realized it was supposed to be a comedy.
It’s the style and feel Jeff
Although whether the XBox will evr have the sense of cool that Snowcrash has I doubt. Samurai sword fights emulating coding hacking, I only wish it was that exciting in real life.
XBox developers forced to read Snowcrash
Via SFSignal , J Allard (XBox develpoment chief) insisted that his developers read Snowcrash, to try and provide some inspiration. In fact Allard is ambitiously going for the Metaverse, “The Xbox 360′s project code-name was Xenon, and an expansive 147-…