Heroes star Masi Oka will be serving as global ambassador for the non-profit One Laptop Per Child initiative headed up by MIT Media Lab’s Nicholas Negroponte, which has set out to design, manufacture and distribute laptops to developing countries for under $100 each. The Brown University Math/Computer Science grad is a dual threat in the…
Comics Links Eddie Campbell tries to define what a graphic novel is. (Illustration of Campbell deep in thought by Campbell.) The LA Times has an article about the webcomic A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge. Publishers Weekly interviews Satoru Kannagi, writer of Only the Ring Finger Knows. PW also reports on the massive Japanese convention…
Time magazine, which manages to get so much wrong so much of the time, oddly is very accurate and interesting on the subject of LOLcats. [via The Beat] Not science fiction, but only because it didn’t happen: the British military is denying sending giant, man-eating badgers to terrify the citizen of the Iraqi city of…
Interzone #211, a special Michael Moorock issue, will be published in a week, so TTA Press has posted its table of contents. Besides a new Moorcock story and novel excerpt, there are stories from Carlos Hernandez, Aliette de Bodard, and Grace Dugan, among other things. Ansible has put out its 240th issue, full of the…
The BBC is reporting that Joss Whedon’s film Serenity topped a poll by SFX magazine as the best science fiction film of all time. The magazine polled 3,000 fans. Star Wars came in second, and Blade Runner was third. Other films that made the list include Planet of the Apes, The Matrix, Alien, Forbidden Planet,…
