Let’s start this review with a basic rule for authors who are writing courtroom scenes. Trials don’t work like they are shown on Perry Mason
Category Archives: science fiction
Dune movie is dead (for now)
According to Deadline, the Dune movie is dead for now:
Paramount has turned loose the giant worm, and everything else that was part of the seminal Frank Herbert science fiction novel series Dune. The studio’s four-year attempt to make a movie out of the franchise has fallen by the wayside. Paramount and the rights holders came to a parting of the ways as the rights lapsed. “Paramount’s option has expired and we couldn’t reach an agreement,” said Richard P. Rubinstein, who controls the rights to what is considered the biggest-selling science fiction book ever. “I’m going to look at my options, and whether I wind up taking the script we developed in turnaround, or start over, I’m not sure yet.”
The Thousand by Kevin Guilfoile
We’ve had conspiracy stories based on the Illuminati (Angels & Demons
Limitless Book review
I didn’t realize that the new movie (Limitless) was based off a book I had already read and reviewed, The Dark Fields
Regarding Ducks and Universes by Neve Maslakovic
One of the nice things about reading a multiple universe novel by an actual scientist is that you know the science will be right, but I often worry that the story will be less of the focus than the science. Happily that’s not the case in Neve Maslakovic’s book Regarding Ducks and Universes
2010 James Tiptree Award
The 2010 Tiptree award has been selected:
The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council is pleased to announce that the 2010 Tiptree Award is being given to Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
, by Dubravka Ugresic (Canongate, 2010).
Additional honored books include:
The Bone Palace
by Amanda Downum (Orbit 2010)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdomsby N.K. Jemisin (Orbit 2010)
The Secret Feminist Cabalby Helen Merrick (Aqueduct Press 2009)
Who Fears Deathby Nnedi Okorafor (DAW 2010) (my review)
Living with Ghostsby Kari Sperring (DAW 2009)
The Colonyby Jillian Weise (Soft Skull Press 2010)
Arizona Popular Culture Museum
Since I was in the neighborhood the other day, I took the kids to the Arizona Popular Culture Museum. I had tried to go a couple months ago, but they were in the middle of moving down the street (from City North to Desert Ridge for those of you who know Phoenix) and since it’s not exactly close to me, this is the first chance I’ve had to go in their new home. There are still some signs of the museum not being finished (such as the stairs of doom), but it’s a nice little museum…with some caveats.
The Infinities by John Banville
The Infinities
The Press: Amazing! Astounding!
From Time magazine in 1939, an article about one of the first science fiction conventions:
Sold at U. S. newsstands are about a dozen pulp magazines with such titles as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stones, Startling Stories, Strange Stories, Fantastic Adventures, Thrilling Wonder Stones, Unknown, Marvel Science Stories, Weird Tales. In the pulp trade they are known as “pseudo-scientifics” or “scientifiction.” This week in Manhattan this amazing group of publications produced an amazing show: a convention of their fans.
H/T to Paul Malmont (author of the forthcoming novel The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
It’s time for Book Three of Gene Wolfe’s masterpiece The Book of the New Sun, The Sword of the Lictor. As we get closer to the end of the story, the action starts picking up and the story seems to circle back upon itself. I’m curious as to what happens to Severian and his world. So, let’s see what’s happening?