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Die, Human, Die! John Scalzi Ponders Death at the Hands of SciFi's Meanest Creatures
What would it be like to die in the jaws of an Arachnid, or to have an alien burst through your chest, or to watch The Thing steal your identity while you die? John Scalzi is here to tell you. For the last few weeks, I've been chatting about serious real-world aspects of science fiction filmmaki...
Wed, Jan 27 | from blogs.amctv.com | More John Scalzi
Fic: Forward Momentum
Title: Forward Momentum Fandom: Vorkosiverse Rating: PG. Very occasional swearing. Length: 174, 639, in 17 chapters and an epilogue. (Sorry, folks.) Disclaimer: The characters and settings are the property of Lois McMaster Bujold, borrowed for fun.
Wed, Jan 27 | from Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community | More Lois McMaster Bujold
Bradbury, The Illustrative Man
When he was 9, Ray Bradbury was taunted for clipping and saving every Buck Rogers comic strip.
Wed, Jan 27 | from Yahoo! News | More Ray Bradbury
A Bad First Draft
David Brin, a science fiction writer, "looks at the '00s as a great lost opportunity, the decade when 'the drug high of self-righteousness poisoned our ...
Fri, Dec 25 | from The Weekly Standard | More David Brin
Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite among arts world deaths in 2009
Philip Jose Farmer, 91. Celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer. Feb. 25. Wendy Richard, 65. British actress; working-class matriarch of "EastEnders. ... and more »
Thu, Dec 17 | from GMA News.tv | More Philip José Farmer
Nexus: Did Google Dream of Electric Lawsuits?
Isa Dick Hackett, daughter of the paranoid science fiction genius Philip K Dick, isn't happy about the new Googlephone. ... Philip K. Dick's kid howls over Googlephone handleRegister Philip K Dick's daughter may sue over Google Nexus One nameElectricPig.tv
Wed, Dec 16 | from Wired News | More Philip K. Dick
'Avatar' is a 3-D technical marvel and a labor of love for director Cameron
Quaritch, said, "It owes a tremendous amount to Edgar Rice Burroughs, for example; it's got that same sense of epic adventure of new worlds being discovered ... and more »
Sat, Dec 12 | from Pittsburgh Post Gazette | More Edgar Rice Burroughs
Quick Takes
Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury is preparing to shop a six-hour miniseries to television networks that will feature a half-dozen of his classic short stories, ... and more »
Fri, Nov 13 | from Los Angeles Times | More Ray Bradbury
Transition by Iain Banks | Book review
Iain Banks has made a prolific career out of dividing himself in two, publishing novels such as his classic debut The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road as "Iain Banks" and adding a middle initial as "Iain M Banks" for a separate and very successful strand of hard science fiction. What, then, to m...
Fri, Sep 25 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk | More Iain Banks
Opinion: Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honor
Shards of Honor is sci-fi, but it’s character-driven sci-fi. The technology is not the point of the story; you could replace all of the ray guns with swords and the spaceships with boats, and the novel would work just as well as a medieval fantasy. That’s because it’s not about the spaceships...
Tue, Sep 15 | from fyreflybooks (WordPress) | More Lois McMaster Bujold
Second gen Zelazny
Trent Zelazny is the author of the novel Destination Unknown, to be released by Brick Tower Press in December of 2009. He is also the author of the collection of thriller/horror short stories entitled The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories to be released by Wilder Publications in late...
Wed, Jun 17 | from Roger Zelazny Fan Community | More Roger Zelazny
THE SHANGHAI GESTURE By Gary Indiana
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Wed, Jun 3 | from Washington Post | More William Gibson
Heather J. Smith/The Dispatch
NC By November he published the 212-page collection with selections by writers Gardner Dozois, Joe Haldeman, Tony Ruggiero, Brian W. Aldiss, Larry Niven and other established science-fiction, fantasy and horror authors. "I got quite a few big names for ...
Thu, Mar 26 | from Lexington Dispatch | More Joe Haldeman
Watch Words
NC When she was putting together the curriculum for her science fiction class, she focused largely on such famous writers as Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury. But she knew that she wanted to include a graphic novel, "because graphic novels are a pertinent ...
Wed, Mar 4 | from Winston-Salem Journal | More Isaac Asimov
An Interview with Author Orson Scott Card
A while back, Orson Scott Card was kind enough to leave a comment on one of my posts about his story "Stonefather" (released recently in novella form). We had a short e-mail conversation after that and he graciously agreed to let me interview him.Orson Scott Card is the author of such importa...
Tue, Nov 25 | from Blogcritics | More Orson Scott Card
Podcast: Alan Dean Foster
Talented author spoke to me at Icon convention about his career and works. We cover his start and his writing of novel adaptation novels for Alien, Star Wars A New Hope plus the Star Wars sequel, Splinter Of The Mind's Eye. We also cover his treatment for Star Trek: Motion Picture. Some great in...
Tue, Aug 28 | from Fi Talk | More Alan Dean Foster
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