SF Tidbits for 6/26/08
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at
1:58 am
- The Moon is a Shiny Mistress. Firefly scribe Tim Minear has apparently written a script for Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, in glorious PDF. [via Whedonesque]
- Interviews and profiles:
- SciFi Wire profiles Kelly McCullough, author of CodeSpell.
- The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog interviews Sarah Monette.
- Oxford University Press has a brief podcast-interview with Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion), who talks a bit about astronomer/author Fred Hoyle (The Black Cloud).
- John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Judson Roberts, author of The Road to Vengeance .
- Upcoming book news:
- Jonathan Strahan clarifies the table of contents of Eclipse 2.
- John Joseph Adams announced that he will be editing a vampire fiction reprint anthology and is accepting suggestions for stories to include.
- Del Rey & LucasBooks announced novels based on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The first two are being written by Karen Traviss and Karen Miller.
- Free Fiction:
- The latest StarshipSofa podcast features “The Spencer Inheritance” by Michael Moorcock, flash fiction by Adam Roberts, and poetry by Laurel Winter.
- QuasarDragon rounds up free fiction from Andre Norton.
- New at FeedBooks:
- Almuric by Robert E. Howard (1939)
- The Blind Spot by Austin Hall. (1921)
- “Blessed Are the Meek” by G.C. Edmondson (1955)
- “Beyond Pandora” by Robert J. Martin (1962)
- “The Bell Tone” by Edmund H. Leftwich (1941)
- “The Beast of Space” by F.E. Hardart (1941)
- “Attrition” by Jim Wannamaker (1961)
- “Accidental Death ” by Peter Baily (1959)
- Our Futursismic buddies offer up this article on How to define a genre…and why not to bother.
- io9 lists Scifi Art: The Greatest Art Featuring 6 Iconic Scifi Villains.
- Kathryn Cramer has posted photos of the 2008 Locus Awards.
- As a response to accusations of Wall-E being an E.T. clone, Kevin Maher’s latest SciFi Dept. video looks at E.T. Ripoffs.
- Here’s yet-another Joker poster from The Dark Knight. I’m getting anxious to see Ledger’s Joker…
- Jayme Lynn Blaschke reviews the Jumper DVD: “Dear lord in heaven, what a mess.”
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And the link to the Dawkins interview is??????
Good summary on Jumper. In an extra on the Jumper DVD, Gould brings up the story of an author being asked if Hollywood ruined his novel and the author stating that it was not ruined because it’s still on his bookself. That’s not a good sign in an DVD extra.
Jumper the movie had very little to do with the novel. It also ends in a way that leaves one checking to see if they accidently pressed the skip to end button on their remote.
>>And the link to the Dawkins interview is…
…now fixed. Thanks, Eagle-Eye!
@Mark: From what I’ve read elsewhere, Gould seems to be in a good place mentally about the movie. An author getting their work adapted is relatively rare, so it’s considered a sign of success. I don’t think he is much concerned that the movie fared poorly with critics, and that’s probably the right way to think about it since his influence pretty much ends with him signing the check.
“Our Futursismic buddies offer up this article on How to define a genre…and why not to bother.”
Quitter! I feel that there is a definitive definition of science fiction within our grasp.
http://johncwright.livejournal.com/171782.html
Any story with that soaring space-princess is science fiction!
Heh…
I was going to link to our two Mind Melds where authors define science fiction.
I recall announcements about Minear working on a script for “Moon” some years ago. Reading the script…hate the annoy the Minear fans, but I’m glad this project appears to be dead (no news for a while and why else would you release the script “into the wild”?).
Some things are better left in the Theater of the Mind.