SF Tidbits for 2/22/09
By John DeNardo |
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 at
12:05 am
- Blogging the Muse interviews Jay Lake (Green).
- The World in the Satin Bag interviews Chris Howard (Seaborn).
- In part 5 or their tribute, Fear.net asks Was Edgar Allan Poe a Goth?
- Charles Stross talks about some upcoming books: The Revolution Business (the 5th Merchant Princes novel) and Wireless.
- When Science Fiction Meets Marxism, or “A review of John’s Carpenter’s They Live“: “Although it appeared about 20 years ago, in 1988, the movie remains timely and relevant as one of the most devastating and sharp criticisms of American imperialism ever made.”
- At SF Novelists, Laura Anne Gilman tells writers Why Continuity Matters
- Cover Pr0n: Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Over at Internet Evolution, you’ll find Media-Morphosis: How the Internet Will Devour, Transform, or Destroy Your Favorite Medium by Cory Doctorow, which he describes as “a noodle on the factors that led to the demise of newspapers, the transformation of music, and the potential destruction of big budget movies and mass-market publishing (and what can be done about the last one)”
- Stargate showrunner Joseph Mallozzi is taking reader questions for Amanda Tapping.
- The life of pulp writer Emerson LaSalle is coming to the big screen. [via Victor Gischler's Blogpocalypse]
- Mark R. Kelly’s absolutely essential resource, The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, has been updated with the past year’s awards results, new sections for the Shirley Jackson, WSFA Small Press, and Dwarf Stars awards, and also has been given a facelift. Nice job, Mark!
- The List Universe lists Top 20 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of the 1980s. Interesting choices…
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“Although it appeared about 20 years ago, in 1988, the movie remains timely and relevant as one of the most devastating and sharp criticisms of American imperialism ever made.”
American what? Dude, if we Americans are imperialists, where is my Empire?
Wow. Just reading the Marxists, ah, “analysis” of John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE is like stepping back through a time machine to the early 1930′s: a mental universe where the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Stalinist show trials, the gulags, the Ukrainian famine, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Moaist purges and Cultural Revolutions of Red China, the death camps of socialist Germany, the poverty and brutality of socialist Italy, not to mention the decades of terror caused by the Soviet threat of world thermonuclear destruction, war and revolutions in South America, Central Asia, Africa, decades and decades of death, death, death — as if it none of that had never happened.
As if the peace and wealth and pleanty and prosperity promised by Marxist theory had happened.
And the Marxist hooligans are still lecturing us, hectoring us, talking down to us, as if we are the bad guys, and as if the hell on earth they promote were not the hollowest of lies.
With no sense of irony at all, we hear a zombie who steadfastly refuses to don the glasses that show the truth, and see the inhuman monsters he worships. Amazing.
If THEY LIVE were merely the pinko agitprop this writer makes it out to be, it would be unworthy of the cult fandom that has bloomed about it. THEY LIVE is about something more profound: it is a movie for anyone who sees a truth no one else can see, anyone who has ever felt that paranoid suspicion that life is not what it seems on the surface, and that it is darker than you think.
I have many a time wished I could chew gum and kick ass hard enough to make someone look through my glasses, and see the world as it really is. And they felt the same of me.