SF Tidbits for 4/17/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, April 17th, 2009 at
12:08 am
- Lord of the Rings is coming to Blu-ray! Lord of the Rings is coming to Blu-ray! Sadly, it’s the theatrical releases, not the extended versions, which are being held off for an “ultimate” collection coinciding with the theatrical release of The Hobbit.
- Philip K. Dick’s widow is suing the production arm of the estate and several other entities, alleging violation of her rights to proceeds from Ubik and A Scanner Darkly.
- Interviews and Profiles
- In the latest episode of Cult Pop, Jim Hall interviews Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VandeMeer.
- io9 interviews Tron Guy Jay Maynard.
- In his essay Notes on Conceptual Fiction, Ted Gioia asks: “Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s anticipate the future of serious literature better than the so-called “serious writers” or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?” [via Charles Coleman Finlay]
- How Marie Brennan writes female characters.
- John Scalzi offers up A Case Study in Vanity, Courtesy of Battlefield Earth.
- Heather at Galaxy Express apparently has an unnatural obsession for Bug-Eyed Monsters In Love.
- Peggy at Biology in Science Fiction is thinking about The Next Phase of Human Evolution.
- Tor shares some nice minimalist covers for Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy.
- File 770 issue #155 [PDF] has been posted at eFanzines.
- Amazon flipping the DRM kill-switch on customers’ Kindles.
- Lists:
- George Orwell’s 1984 and Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s Wife make the Telegraph’s list of Top 10 Most Inspirational Reads. [Scott Edelman]
- M. John Harrison’s Fantasy Picks. [via OF Blog of the Fallen]
- @International Society of Supervillains: 5 Latter-Day Frankensteins.
- @Manolith: 18 Vintage Sci Fi Posters.
- @Monster.Movie.TV: 13 upcoming remakes of Hollywood sci-fi classics
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*puts on his nitpickery hat*
Jackson isn’t making the Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro is. Which, personally, I find a whole lot more exciting, given what del Toro does in Hellboy and things like Pan’s Labyrinth.
*takes nitpickery hat off*
The Amazon DRM kill switch just bugs me. But not as much as that weird picture included with the article. I don’t know what that picture is of, specifically, but it’s pretty unappealing.
Thanks for the linky, John. I admit, I weird *myself* out sometimes, lol!
@Pete: Not nitpickery at all. I live to be corrected by others. Fortunately I’ve give people many, many chances to do just that.
@Heather: All in good fun!