SF Tidbits, Part 70 – Now with 100% Less Roman Numeral!
By John DeNardo |
Monday, January 23rd, 2006 at
7:02 pm
- The Olaf Stapledon Online Archive. (Image shown: A painting by Olaf Stapledon of title character of his novel Odd John.)
- The Infinite Matrix’s final issue concludes with essays by William Gibson and Eleanor Arnason, stories by Doctorow & Stross and James Patrick Kelly, and more. [via Locus Online]
- Drinking and reading do mix!
- “If there is a fanboy heaven, it may be on the fourth floor of the Tomas Rivera Library at UC Riverside.”
- SlashDot: Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses?
- Smallville is airing its 100th episode
- The 10 Best SciFi Films That Never Existed
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Did you know the first animated feature film made in the U.S. was nearly ERB’s A Princess of Mars? That’s one I wish they’d made….
Olaf Stapledon rocks. Try “Star Maker”. However…if you read “Last and First Men”, skip the first few chapters (on Earth) until humanity gets off Earth. They could put you off the rest of the book.
BTW, thanks for the Stapledon link. I had posted a bit in 2003 regarding J.D. Bernal (somebody that inspired Stapledon) and included a link to an earlier version of that site. It’s nice to be able to update the posting with the site’s current URL!
FWIW, I am a University of California, Riverside alumn. But it was only last year that I made use of the Eaton collection, and it was to review and read through a few copies SciFi Eye. Searching for an essay by Charles Platt, and I found an interview with Clive Barker as a bonus.