SF Tidbits for 8/24/09
By John DeNardo |
Monday, August 24th, 2009 at
12:05 am
- File 770 has photos from Ray Bradbury’s 89th Birthday Party.
- Michael Moorcock traces the roots of atmospheric steampunk in his Guardian review of The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry. [via Beyond The Beyond]
- Addition Guardian reviews: Keith Brooke reviews anthology The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology edited by Gordon Van Gelder; Adam Roberts reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s Galileo’s Dream, and essays by Alison Flood on The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and by Guy Gavriel Kay who asks: Are novelists entitled to use real-life characters? [via Locus Online]
- New Scientist has a gallery of abandoned NASA projects. [via Walter Jon Williams]
- Sci-Fi non-sequitur of the day: A Clockwork Orange on the Yamanote Line. [via Super Punch]
- GeekTyrant lists 5 Films that Changed the Way People look at Sci-Fi movies. Any you would add to that list?
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A word on the Michael Moorcock link above.
I’m not sure what book he was reading but I read the Manual Of Detection and I wouldn’t put it in the steampunk category. It’s a detective story with fantastic elements. A Fantasy Noir if you will. It could take place in modern day London and I don’t remember a single steam drivin device. No blimps either.
I’ve seen something similar said elsewhere.