Well, it’s SF week at the ol’ DVD Xtra. Not sci-fi week, but SF week, using the “official” contraction sanctified by the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was once a member. Now, if I were considering the likes of I Robot and/or I am Legend – two Will Smith vehicles adapted from…
Chris Ryall, IDW Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, recently posted this new, untitled promo art by Nick Roche for an upcoming Transformers project. That’s about all there is to say about it, other than the fact that it’s now my new desktop background.
In today’s brand-new episode of Jon Sable: Freelance, by Mike Grell, Maggie the Cat lives up to her reputation. With diamonds — and other things — size matters.
Times Online looks back at the British ‘80s craze for Fighting Fantasy. The Millions has a looooong post (no, really, it’s long) about Harry Potter from a children’s librarian’s perspective. Queen guitarist Brian May has gone back to school — to finish his doctorate in astrophysics. That’s a smart move – you always want to…
This one’s for Mark "Bumblebee" Ryan. If you wondered why you didn’t see all your favorite Transformers in the movie, it’s because they were going through their own personal transformations…
USA Today stalks the elusive Fanboy. Locus Online lists new paperback editions of SF/Fantasy books that they saw in June. Matthew Cheney thinks about the latest eruption of the what-is-SF-and-what-isn’t discussion. A highly scientific investigation into the age-old struggle between pirates and ninjas. [via Chris Roberson] tSF Diplomat thinks hard about online book reviewing and…
The 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award and 2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award were presented at the Campbell Conference this past weekend in Kansas City. Each award was voted for by a jury of experts. The Campbell Award, for best science fiction novel, went to Ben Bova’s Titan. The Sturgeon Award, for best science fiction…
The Agony Column interviews Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will Be Invincible. Wired talks to Kim Stanley Robinson about the future of the planet. [via Bruce Sterling] Brooklyn Frank interviews Jeff Somers, author of The Electric Church. [via the author] SciFi Wire talks to Jay Lake about the clockwork solar system of his new…
Jane Jewell, Executive Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, has received word of the death of Sterling Lanier on Thursday, June 28th at the age of 79. Sterling Edmund Lanier worked as both a writer and editor in the science fiction field beginning in the early 1960s; he was published extensively…
Mad Magazine goes for the easy jokes with their “Rejected Star Wars Stamps.” The UK’s own Guardian newspaper wonders why science fiction is more popular now on TV than it used to be, and blames 9/11. Others have already pointed out that the Guardian seems to have forgotten the mid-90s surge of SF and Fantasy…
Since it worked so well for Jericho, there’s another grassroots campaign in the works – this time, people are sending Mars bars to CW president Dawn Ostroff in an attempt to save Veronica Mars. The Indian Food Store is collecting many many many Mars bars from around the world and sending them to Ms. Ostroff…
Did you know there was a Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle? Maybe it has something to do with the Space Needle, or the underground city, or the fact that you’ve got to do something while on all that coffee. One of the things you might be able to do on June…
