SF Tidbits
…from around the web:
- The next Spider-Man villain has been cast. Thomas Hayden Church is on board to play the as-yet-unnamed villain. [Link]
- Joss Whedon, creator of Firefly, will be writing the script for the upcoming Wonder Woman movie. [Link]
- Star Wars will live on after Episode III. Besides the computer games, there are a few TV projects in the works – both animated an live action. [Link]
- Scifi.com has a new interview with horror author Brian Lumley.
- New free fiction:
- “They Don’t Make Life Like They Used To” by Alfred Bester
- “Space-time for Springers” by Fritz Leiber
- “Hidden Paradise” by Robert Reed
- Adam Roberts reviews the nominees for the Arthur C Clarke award which includes
- River of Gods by Ian McDonald
- Iron Council by China Miéville
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell,
- Market Forces by Richard Morgan
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The System of the World: Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Curiously, I picked up Necroscope last weekend and started reading it again. I got into a horror mood after reading Lovecraft last week. I dind’t finish Necroscope the first time I started it, so I guess John would give it a 0-star review. It just SO seemed like the kind of book I would love that I’m trying it again.
Kudos to you for giving the book another chance.
On the 0-star comment, I know we disagree on what a rating means. I still want to detail what goes into a book review I do but in a nutshell, I am rating the reading experience, not the book. If I don’t finish a book, that’s a bad reading experience. As long as I qualify why I couldn’t finish it, readers of the review can make their own judgment. If a book is good enough to finish, I won’t give it zero stars. If it helps your brain to translate zero stars into N/A, then by all means do so.
Let me know how you like Necroscope. It is on my enourmously insane to-read pile.