SF Tidbits for 4/16/07
By John DeNardo |
Monday, April 16th, 2007 at
12:15 am
- John Clute reviews Four Novels of the 1960s by Philip K. Dick.
- Monday YouTube, Part 1, shows us that sometimes music and sci-fi don’t mix: “Future Brain” by Den Harrow. “Future brain you great computer, it’s insane to program everybody’s love.” [via Mind Hacks. Thanks, JP, he added sarcastically]
- BoingBoing points us to Well-Told Tales podcasts. The good news, they have sci-fi stories. The bad news, that category does not have an archive so you can access them easily.
- A group of soldiers in Iraq are putting together an RPG convention, and they are desperately in need of materials.
- John C. Wright has doubts about the upcoming Iron Man movie.
- The Brisbane Courier Mail talks to Jonathan Strahan, Marianne de Pierres and others about space opera.
- Nancy Kress speech: Women in American Sci Fi, a transcription of the guest of honour speech held at ConFuse 93.
- Monday YouTube, Part2: The Powerpuff Girls vs. Lex Luthor and the Legion of Doom.
- Technovelgy interviews Greg Bear, author of Quantico.
- SciFi Weekly interviews Christopher Moore.
- Karl Schroeder shows us some visualizations of the Virga town wheels from his book Sun of Suns.
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I agree, more or less, with John Wright about the Iron Man movie. I’ll go see it, but Iron Man was always one of my favorite characters and I have a feeling they won’t do him justice. Although it DOES have the instant advantage of not having Bryan Singer involved with it in any way.
After Civil War, I can’t get over the feeling that Iron Man is the bad guy. It makes it hard to enjoy the comics. Maybe he’ll bother me less by 2008. (maybe I’ll get a life.)
There is zero, not near-zero, chance that the Iron man film will any good. If it harbors a fraction of the ruinous style of the recent animated DVD it will be even worse.
I gave up on Marvel years ago. The schism of trying to be more realistic while being more fantastic just tore the enjoyability of the MU into shreds. Recently I enjoyed Planet Hulk and the Annihilation series, but the rest has been rubbish.
See, where I thought Planet Hulk set Hulk comics back ten years. I mean, Hulk’s given us arcs like the “Tempus Fugit” arc and the “Hidden in Plain Sight” arc, all really good storytelling. And then Planet Hulk was “Hulk smashes; next scene. Hulk smashes, etc.”
I do hope Hulk kicks Iron Man’s butt in the World War Hulk stuff. Not that I’m a grieving Captain America fan or anything.