SF Tidbits for 2/19/08
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at
12:03 am
- At Locus Online, Gary Westfahl reviews Jumper. He liked the book. The movie? Not so much…
- At Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews artist John Picacio and author J.M. McDermott.
- Fantasybookspot interviews Charles Stross: “…the internet has conditioned us to multi-task, to the detriment of our ability to focus on any single activity. And it’s taught a whole generation of kids that plagiarism is trivial and research is easy…”
- Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “The Soul Bottles” by Jay Lake (2004).
- SciFi Scanner wants you to vote on your favorite special effects!
- Subterranean Press offers a sneak peek at some of J.K. Potter‘s illustrations for Tim Powers’ Fisher King Trilogy (consisting of Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather).
- Peter @ Living the Liminal lists 10 Reasons Why He Hates the Movie Version of Stardust.
- Real Science: New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter has a nice list of Urban Fantasy P.I.’s. Great for the “recommended if you like…” way of choosing books to read.
- Here’s a big directory of cult sf/horror movie posters.
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I think that Stardust link is rather interesting. Ten points of bashing on a film that Gaiman actually worked on. It wasn’t handed over to someone else and that was that (like the Dark Is Rising film). Gaiman had a hand in from the start…so really it’s like a bashfest of Gaiman too since it is partly his movie vision.