For those in the New York City area who can’t attend tomorrow’s Nebula Awards Dinner in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has arranged NYC Nebula Night which will include a large-screen simulcast of the ceremony, along with a full-scale reception and dinner including an open wine bar, rib-eye steak…
This is the week for angry business stuff here, isn’t it? Yesterday, we had Evil Inc. and Fox Business News, and today we have advice on preparing your business presentations from the Incredible Hulk: Showcase hidden strengths Find something to care about Don’t overdo it And for heaven’s sake, stay calm: Whether you are the…
Mazel tov! Reprinting the SFScope announcement: Award-winning science fiction writer (and SF Scope contributor) Michael A. Burstein and wife Nomi Burstein welcomed two twin children, their first, to their family today. The twins are fraternal, and both are girls. The first baby was born at 9:20AM, weighed 5 pounds 8 ounces, and is 17″ long….
Sadly, and yet appropriately, from Locus itself: Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown, 72, died peacefully in his sleep July 12, 2009 on his way home from Readercon. Charles Nikki Brown was born June 24, 1937 in Brooklyn NY, where he grew up. He attended the City College of New York, taking time…
Shore Leave 31. It’s where I’ll be this weekend, at the Hunt Valley Inn, along with (deep breath) ComicMix people Robert Greenberger, Aaron Rosenberg, Jenifer Rosenberg, and comics pros Peter David, Mike W. Barr, Greg Cox, Keith DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore, Michael Jan Friedman, Allyn Gibson, David Mack, Dayton Ward, and an armada of other SF…
BBC Worldwide will launch BBC America HD, the hi-def simulcast of BBC America, on July 20– and they’ll be rolling out a lot of science fiction during their first week: The five part Torchwood: Children of Earth will debut July 20 at 9 PM and air Monday through Friday. That Saturday, July 25, Primeval has…
Another familiar voice and the guy behind it – Meet Neil Kaplan, once Transformer’s Optimus Prime and now a comic creator in his own right. Plus Mike Gold regrets REBIRTH and The Big Two are where you might want to place your bucks in the comic store this week. PRESS THE BUTTON to Get The…
Arnold Schwarzenegger may well have shot a cameo for McG’s Terminator Salvation film according to Total FIlm. “We’re trying to synthesize a human character with a CGI character and that may or may not have something to do with the T800,” McG told the site. “At the moment it’s not good enough,” he said. “And…
At long last, the 1968 written The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from Tom Wolfe is heading to film. Fox Searchlight has picked up the rights for the novel, with director Gus Van Sant and writer Dustin Lance Black attached to the project. Richard Gladstein and his Film Colony banner will produce. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid…
Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! By Howard Chaykin Dynamic Forces, July 2008, $49.99 Science Fiction has never been quite as successful in comics form as it seemed it should have been. Oh, sure, there have been plenty of vaguely SFnal ideas and premises – from [[[Superman]]] to [[[Kamandi]]] to the [[[X-Men]]] to the [[[Ex-Mutants]]] – but…
In today’s brand-new episode of White Viper, by Erin Holroyd, Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin, we learn the secret origin of Ta Moa, his training in Japan and his first job on his own. Was he able to fulfill the hopes and dreams of his father? Was his training successful? And why doesn’t he live…
In a recent video interview with the BBC, Doctor Who‘s David Tennant chatted up Andrew Marre about the hit science-fiction series, his breakthrough role on Taking Over the Asylum and his upcoming turn as Hamlet. I’ve embedded the full Andrew Marre episode below, but you can watch a higher-resolution version focused on the Tennant portion…
