SF Tidbits for 6/12/09
By John DeNardo |
Friday, June 12th, 2009 at
12:05 am
- Interviews & Profiles:
- John Joseph Adams profiles Eric Garcia and his book, The Repossession Mambo. For what its worth, this was one of my best reads this year. Here’s why.
- @Whatever: Jay Lake, author of Green, out this week. (Read the SF Signal review.)
- Pyr-o-Mania profiles its new author, Jon Sprunk.
- @OmniVoarcious: Editor-Consultant Juliet Ulman. [via Jeff VanderMeer]
- Yesterday’s Best Artist Hugo nominee sample at Tor.com: this free wallpaper from Shaun Tan.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch continues her series of writing posts with this useful post: Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Money, Part 1.
- The Boston Globe’s Peter Bebergal on The Best of Gene Wolfe: “Science fiction has come to mean so many things, that Wolfe’s collection of his best stories gives us an opportunity to firmly declare that the separation of science fiction from “literary fiction,” has blurred so much, we may as well admit that none of these terms can accurately describe the workings of a hyper-charged imagination.”
- Simon & Schuster will sell eBooks on Scribd.com.
- Sci fi Wire knows why Mark Millar is so involved in the movie of his Kick-Ass comic.
- The zombie comic series Deadworld is being adpated to film.
- Speaking of the undead, at io9, A Harvard Psychiatrist Explains Zombie Neurobiology.
- John Scalzi’s Teaches Math: SNL Actors + SciFi Movies = Box Office Death.
- Esquire says “The Road Is the Most Important Movie of the Year“. [via Katy Budget Books]
- The Chicago Tribune has a gallery speculating what would happen If robots ruled the world.
- Lists:
- @Topless Robot: The 10 Least Necessary Doctor Who Figures.
- @io9: The 10 Best Science Fiction Score Composers.
- Over at Tor.com, Lou Anders lists 7 reasons why the Duncan Jones film Moon will rock.
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- SF Tidbits for 1/10/08
- SF Tidbits for 6/28/08
- SF Tidbits Part LV
- SF Tidbits for 1/18/09
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This is going to be totally pedantic: Horner didn’t really expand on Goldsmith’s ST:TMP score so much as make his own thing, and Danny Elfman didn’t score Ed Wood, Howard Shore did.
The more I read io9, the more I hate it. Blatant disregard for fact checking, lack of respect for the history of the genre, seemingly incessant obsession film only the film and TV aspect of the genre .
/nerdgassing
But we still rock…right? Right?
Yeah, y’all are rockers. you rock out.