SF Tidbits for 3/27/06
By John DeNardo |
Monday, March 27th, 2006 at
10:32 pm
- RIP: Stanislaw Lem. [via Locus Online]
- Wired list the The Best Sci-Fi Concept Albums. [via Big Dumb Object]
- A history of the British Science Fiction Book Club. [via HubBub]
- Joss Whedon wouldn’t mind putting TV Wonder Woman Lynda Carter in his upcoming Wonder Woman movie, but only if it’s right and doesn’t pull viewers out of the movie.
- Stephen King likes Battlestar Galactica, saying it’s “a beautifully written show, driven by character…there’s not a better acting troupe at work on television” and it’s “far better than Star Trek, in any of its incarnations.” Hmmm, I’m sure that sits well with Trek fans.
- Ed Gorman offers a piece on Richard Matheson.
- HomeVideo.com’s list of Great Sci-Fi Movies.
- Listen to the original radio broadcast adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. [via del.icio.us]
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re SciFi concept albums: All of Coheed and Cambria’s albums are parts of a larger overall story set in another world, complete with spaceships, antagonists with a thirst for universal domiation, prophecies, and angelic over-beings. It’s very complicated (and the especially convoluted lyrics don’t really help), but there are forums on the band’s web site and even comics to help you with the story line. They sound kind of like a modern day Rush without the amazing technical prowess. A lot of people write them off as a crappy emo-pop-punk band with a high-pitched singer without knowing anything about the amazing story behind every song, the structure of every album, and even the interplay between albums to make an overarching narrative. I can understand how one could have a problem appreciating the storytelling if they didn’t like the music, though.
It just goes to show you that writers don’t know jack about acting.
What, no place for Blows Against the Empire by Jefferson Starship? It even got nominated for a Hugo.