SF Tidbits for 6/29/06

Posted on June 29, 2006 by John DeNardo in Tidbits // 4 Comments

Revolution SF reviews John Picacio‘s art book Cover Story. They also have posted a gallery of Picacio’s work. I thumbed through this while at Borderlands recently. This. Book. Rocks! [via Locus Online]
Just in time for the release of Superman Returns, and the release of the book Man From Krypton, comes a Superman-related essay by Karen Haber called Clark Kent Just Gets Better Looking Every Day.
Greg Egan offers Foundations, a series of articles on some of the theories of twentieth-century physics that have most influenced modern science fiction. [via CoolSciFi]
TV journalist and a counterfactual author Giampietro Stocco interviews Robert J. Sawyer and C.J. Cherryh. [via Sawyer’s blog]
John Scalzi (Old Man’s War, Ghost Brigades) interviews David Louis Edelman (Infoquake).
BBC Radio 4 serializes H. Rider Haggard’s She on July 2nd. [via SFF Audio]
Paul McAuley reviews A Scanner Darkly. [via Big Dumb Object]
Forbidden Planet bookstore has a blog and a podcast. [via SFBC Blog]

joshua corning // June 29, 2006 at 12:14 am //

Superman-related essay by Karen Haber called Clark Kent Just Gets Better Looking Every Day.

Now, however, it’s time to sit up and pay attention to Clark. It is my contention that Clark Kent, Superman’s daytime alter ego, not Superman himself, has emerged as the more interesting and intriguing character in both the comics and electronic media. Yes, Clark Kent possesses a humanity that is far more interesting than the death-defying feats of his super-powered persona. Clark Kent is the real man behind the Man of Steel. Happily, the comic book writers agree with me: recent plotlines have been distinctly Kent-centric. How did this happen?

The reason why is becouse stan lee invented Peter Parker/Spiderman and any other reason that this person gives besides “Spiderman” is pure and utter BS.

Note: I glimsed at the rest of the article and like 3 pages down there is a mention of Alan Moore…Jesus H…please don’t waste your time with this overly long, overly inflated, pile of crap.