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Science Fiction and Fantasy in TV, Movies, Books, etc.
Kind of a mishmash post today. I start out with some EQ2, then move on to TV and lastly a little bit about work right at the end. Being a recruit in a highly successful raid guild going through Veeshan’s Peak for the first time leaves me plenty of time to play alts and watch … Read more
Inspired by Wilhelm and Potshot, who both see the barriers against any sort of MMO with a science fictional basis as nearly insurmountable… I found I disagreed. Strongly. I love science fiction — Peter Hartwell once said “The Golden Age of Science Fiction is twelve“. All life and possibility is open to you, and yet … Read more
A new book by Iain [M] Banks is always something to celebrate. Humor, action, politics, joy and despair (but usually more of the latter than the former, alas) combined with meticulous world-building and characters real enough to care for… he is one of the most brilliant SF writers of his age. io9 has news that … Read more
When Wired ran a story headlined “Apple Plotting an Avon Power Play“, all I could think was, “Damn that Avon! Which side is he ON?”. Of course, he’s always on *his* side, but then I wondered why they mentioned Blake’s 7 in a “Cult of Mac” article. Turned out they meant the cosmetics company. Ouch. … Read more
Via boingboing, I found a great LA Weekly profile of Devo co-founder Mark Motherbaugh’s turn from New Wave post-punk icon to noted, “quirky”, soundtrack and jingle writer for his omni-art creative emporium, ‘Mutato’. That swept me back thirty years to those dusty shelves in the back of the Uxbridge Free Public Library’s fiction stacks, and … Read more