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The not quite dead ones, servant. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about The Cutting Room – Shane Jiraiya Cummings
“Peter Orullian: Let’s get underway by having you give us a snapshot of your work to set the stage for our conversation: genres you write in, recognitions, etc., publishing vitals, if you will. Ted Chiang: I write science fiction short stories. I have a collection of my stories, STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS, published [...]
Continue reading about Interview: The Lifecycle of Software Objects – Ted Chiang
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Looking at the movie and the not-possibleness of translating the complexity onto the screen for one movie. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about Some Different Sort Of Time: Watchmen As Cinema – Patrick Meaney
Atomic comparisons; fiction to reality. 4 out of 5
How it is put together. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about Nothing Ever Ends: Structural Symmetries In Watchmen – John Cormier
From the title you see that it talks about Rorschach via The Question et. al. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about Blotting Out Reality: Questioning Rorschach – Gene Phillips
On looking at Watchmen via Raymond Chandler’s analysis of what makes a mystery story work. 4 out of 5
On the references both real and fictional to bands and composers. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about How The Ghost Of You Clings: Watchmen And Music – Mary Borsellino
On the origins of characters and predecessors to check out beforehand. 4 out of 5
Ranks of Bronze finds a Roman Legion shanghaied and put to work for a group of interstellar traders. These rapacious types have agreements to solve conflicts by conflict – but only at the technology level of the locals. So if you have primitive barbarians with swords and shields – you send in your slave legion [...]
Last of a team, looking to kill some Priests and helping out mother and son in Entity land. 4 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/50326
“It may not seem like so at first, but everything is broken in Alan Brennert and Jim Aparo’s Interlude On Earth-Two. The Batman of that parallel world is long dead, as is his wife, Selina Kyle. His adopted son Dick Grayson is still privately grief-stricken, his old ally Batwoman worn away by sadness and regret. [...]
Continue reading about On Alan Brennert & Jim Aparo’s Interlude on Earth-Two – Colin Smith
Femaville 29 – Paul Di FilippoTsunami refugeee imagineering exodus. 4 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_No_218_Paul_Di_Filippo.mp3
Femaville 29 – Paul Di FilippoTsunami refugeee imagineering exodus. 4 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_No_218_Paul_Di_Filippo.mp3
“We are at a tipping point in history. The Ghosts were driven back from Cthuga at the beginning of the war, and now they are reaching out towards Cthuga again. It is clear that they came to Fomalhaut because they wish to communicate with the Mind. We do not know if it wishes to communicate [...]
Continue reading about In the Mouth of the Whale 9 – Paul J. McAuley
“Nowhere else in the Archipelago is privilege and status so nakedly displayed as in Thule, the thistledown city, the city of tiers. It was built by swarms of machines long before the first generation of Quicks was created from their seedship’s genetic templates. The machines dropped a superstring of entangled gravitons into the centre of [...]
Continue reading about In the Mouth of the Whale 8 – Paul J. McAuley
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Finding a dodgy senator. 4 out of 5
Pickup the White Russian under protest. 4 out of 5
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One monster needs stone, rod, steel and dive suit and scuttling. Still might not work. 4 out of 5
A pop star that is depressed – one brother decided to kill her and V-trans and Barrino and Vega both get involved. 4 out of 5
AKATI Story 2 Dealing with Agent Cicero and a would be mum AI. and Bone Hunt A lieutenant gets a rookie without enough stamina as they swap drugs for Saint Bones info. 4 out of 5
Making deals with enemies – nonhuman soldiers vs nonhuman soldiers – and blood prices. 4 out of 5
Failing to shoot your brother, even when he steals the Black Sword. 4 out of 5
Some living Vikings, a big dead Viking, a dwarf and a woman bad with jewellery. 4 out of 5
Protosentient metal detection totem case. 4 out of 5
Continue reading about Manhattan In Reverse – Peter F. Hamilton
In episode 100 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester offers up part three in our special three-part podcast on Sword and Sorcery moderated by editor, author and publicist Jaym Gates. This week’s panel: Jaym Gates (moderator) John O’Neill Howard Andrew Jones Ryan Harvey Bill Ward Jason M. Waltz James Enge Sam Sykes John R. [...]
Continue reading about The SF Signal Podcast Episode 100 Sword and Sorcery Panel Part 3 – Jaym Gates
In episode 98 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester offers up part two of a special three-part podcast on Sword and Sorcery moderated by editor, author and publicist Jaym Gates. (See also: Part 1.) This week’s panel: Jaym Gates (moderator) John O’Neill Howard Andrew Jones Ryan Harvey Bill Ward Jason M. Waltz James Enge [...]
Continue reading about The SF Signal Podcast Episode 098 Sword and Sorcery Panel Part 2 – Jaym Gates
This was surprisingly good. The story of a trader captain and her motley crew of AI and aliens in need of a new cargo coinciding with an overthrown ruler on a barbaric planet’s need for escape. His ‘wizard’ adviser – an ex-crewmember of the Gravity Rose. Plotting and entanglements await. Shades of Poul Anderson – [...]
