SF Tidbits for 11/27/07
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Soylent Green make Environmental Graffiti’s 5 Nominees For The Greatest Environmental Film. [via Cinema Blend]
- World’s Biggest Bookstore’s Sci-Fi Fan Letter has put together a Space Opera Reading List
- Wild Life eZine has interviews with Harry Harrison, Jack McDevitt, James Morrow, Tom Purdom and David Weber. [sent in via Fred K.]
- The Penguin Group blog interviews one of their own, writer/editor Ginjer Buchanan. “…what used to be considered hard science fiction is become almost mainstream, as real science catches up with the genre…”
- Waggish reviews Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. “Wolfe may not be any worse than Stephenson or Gibson, but his particular weaknesses are much more problematic for non-sf readers than theirs.”
- Alex Wilson narrates the first three chapters of Nathalie Mallet’s novel The Princes of the Golden Cage.
- Illusion TV interviews visual futurist Syd Mead, who worked on Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Syd takes questions from Illusion On Demand’s viewers and Jay Maynard The Tron Guy.
- Over at Locus Online, Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person review The Mist and Mark R. Kelly reviews Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth.
- Shameless Plug-o’-the-Week thinly disguised as Pop Quiz: Which one of Charlie’s Angels has the least number of scifi-related roles? Check out the answer at the Charlie’s SciFi Angels post I wrote for SciFi Scanner.
- StarWars.com lists 10 Strange Star Wars Magazine Covers. (I think…I think I had that issue of Dynamite.)
Is there a link to go with this mad Waggish fellow?
Whoops. Fixed!
Someone had the balls to compare Gene Wolfe to an overrated hack like William Gibson? WOW. And “clunky” prose in the Book of the New Sun? WOW.
That space opera list is an odd piece of work, especially from a blog that bills itself as the “World’s Biggest Bookstore’s Sci-Fi Fan Letter”.