SF Tidbits for 5/26/08
By John DeNardo |
Monday, May 26th, 2008 at
12:11 am
- ComicMix asks: Are Comic Books Hurting Movies?…referring to Jack Donaldson’s Huffington Post article blaming comic book films for ruining special effects. Nice going, Iron Man.
- Recently-free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “Impact” by Irving Cox (1960)
- Paul McAuley shows off the cover for his upcoming book, The Quiet War.
- The Los Angeles Times interviews Jeff VanderMeer.
- io9 interviews Zoe Saldana about Star Trek and Avatar.
- The latest SF Canada updates includes interviews by Celu Amberstone and fiction by Steve Stanton. [via Locus Online]
- Real Science: The Phoenix Mars Lander has landed safely! [via TexasBestGrok]
- Visions of Paradise looks at Science Fiction categories. “All science fiction can be divided into genre versus non-genre.” Discuss.
. “They were languorous, anarchic, shameless in their pleasures … were they lower than man … or higher?”
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All science fiction can be divided into genre and non-genre? Well sure, just as soon as they can define science fiction. Good luck.
Are Comic Books Hurting Movies? No.
Are comic book stories being LOOTED (raped?) by Hollywood execs unwilling to take a chance on anything original? Yes.