VIDEO: L. Ron Hubbard’s Great Grandson Offers a Revealing Peek Behind the Curtain

By John DeNardo (SF Signal) | Thursday, January 9th, 2014 at 12:15 am

Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, tells an interesting story about Hubbard in this beat poem…

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Anne McCaffrey on L. Ron Hubbard

By John DeNardo (SF Signal) | Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 12:15 am

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SF Tidbits for 9/10/09

By John DeNardo (SF Signal) | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 12:05 am

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Interviews & Profiles
- Two interviews with LeVar Buron:
  - @DVDs Worth Watching: Levar talks about being Black Lightning in the upcoming animated Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
  - @NPR: on the end of Reading Rainbow.
- SF Legend Frederik Pohl on L. Ron Hubbard (part 2). Sez Pohl: “He was a chick magnet.”
- @Suite101.com: David Weber (Off Armageddon Reef).
- @Off the Shelf: a podcast-interview with Tobias Buckell. [via Tobias Buckell]
- @Writing Excuses: a podcast-interview with Mary Robinette Kowal.
- @Stomping on Yeti: Paolo Bacigalupi. (The Windup Girl)
@The Guardian, Tola Onanuga tells us Why District 9 isn’t racist against Nigerians: “If District 9 ‘hates Nigerians’, as a Facebook group would have it, then it hates its powerful, white characters even more.”
Tor.com — not Tor the publisher — debuts its first title as a separate publishing entity: Year’s Best Fantasy 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. (Table of Contents here.)
“DC Comics is being renamed DC Entertainment, and will as such focus on all media, not just comics.” [via Topless Robot]
Halo-8 Entertainment has slated Matt Pizzolo and Brian Giberson to create an “illustrated film” adaptation in early 2010 of Xombie; Reanimated, a horror/sci-fi adventure comic book created by James Farr, published by Devil’s Due Publishing.
The latest issue of Concatenation is posted.
Does anyone expect (or hope, or fear) Stallone will follow up his Cyborg Rambo with the just-green-lit Judge Dredd remake?
Real (Cool) Science: NASA has released shiny new snapshots from the The Hubble Space Telescope. [via Neatorama]
Real Cool in 4 words (one hyphenated): Animatronic Fire-Breathing Dragon Boat.
Your geek-craft for the week: How to Make a Star Trek Phaser. Yawn. Call me when I can learn how to make a Yeoman Rand.
Lists:
- @SCI FI Wire: Your guide to 11 sci-fi punks. [via Alyx Dellamonica]
- @Fandomania: Ultimate 20 Comic Book Film Adaptations.
- @The Galaxy Express: 5 Ways Digital Publishers Could Increase Science Fiction Romance Sales.