SF Tidbits for 10/27/06
By John DeNardo |
Friday, October 27th, 2006 at
12:05 am
- Marvel offers a bunch of free digital comics. (Free registration is required to see the full issues.) [via Tyrant of the Seven Seas]
- SciFi Weekly interviews Terry Gilliam.
- The Feminist SF Blog is Dissecting Orson Scott Card.
- Friday YouTube: Award-winning sci-fi author David Brin speaks to the festival’s attendees during the Planetary Society’s Gene Roddenberry Tribute at Planetfest ’97.
- Why didn’t I think of that? A Cthulhu license plate! [via pharyngula]
- Real science from NASA: Uranus Has a Dark Spot. [Giggles uncontrollably.]
- NYT article: In Galactica, It’s Politics as Usual. Or Is It? DeepGenre responds.
- Michael A. Burstein, SF author and President of The Society for the Preservation of Pluto as a Planet, will be interviewed about Pluto live (Sunday, October 29th at 11AM EST) on the EZHelp, You and More Internet Radio Show.
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I’m amazed at the number of ways Galactica has been characterized. It’s Pearl Harbor! It’s 9/11! It’s the War on Terror! It’s the Iraq War!
An article written for a newspaper in (say) Israel will have a totally different viewpoint about the show than an article published in the US.
Then again, sometimes a Battlestar is just a Battlestar.
Minor typo in my first name above…
As long as I’m here anyway, let me state once again how incredibly useful and interesting I continue to find this blog.
I think you already posted the Terry Gilliam interview, on the 20th.
Sweet! An RTFB from the readers!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Nice one John. Maybe next time you ought to go further back than a week when recycling tidbits.
Ummm…I just wanted to be really sure that people saw the repeated link…yeah, that’s it.
Apologeis, Mikul…I fiexd teh spellnig of yuor naem.
Ha, ha, ha.
You do remind me that a few years ago, a bunch of us were thinking of publishing an anthology of stories by Michaels. We had Flynn, Resnick, and Swanwick interested, just to name a few people. We were going to call it The Michaels of Science Fiction.