"Sky Cities" by Helsinki, Finland-based Tuomas Korpi
Interview: Agony Column interviews Alastair Reynolds of On the Steel Breeze.
Interview: The Globe and Mail interviews Margaret Atwood of Stone Mattress.
Interview: The Independent interviews David Mitchell of The Bone Clocks.
Interview: The Scotsman interviews Diana Gabaldon of Outlander series.
Book Review: The Independent says of David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks “Mitchell’s observations of people are so astute, his characterisation so complex, his dialogue so sparkling, that the plunge into the supernatural feels as if your best friend just told you she believes in fairies.”
Movie Review: DorkShelf calls Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem “a sprawling, thoughtful mess of a movie that tosses a cavalcade of ideas (both visual and philosophical) at the audience with almost reckless abandon. There’s a plot, but at times that can seem almost inconsequential."
Anime Adaptations and Why I’m Worried About Ghost in the Shell
The BBC asks Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?
Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial? Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.
Here's a directory of 28 Stories Nominated for the 2014 Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards That You Can Read Online for Free
How Is Outlander Different From The Book? It’s Actually Pretty Spot-On
Jason Sanford asks What is your science fiction worldview?
John C. Wright on The Most Perfect World From the Golden Age of Sci-Fi.
Popular Mechanics asks Could We Build a Ringworld?
Project Hieroglyph: Fighting society’s dystopian future. Pop culture has painted a darkly dystopian vision of the future. But a new book hopes to harness the power of science fiction to plot out a more optimistic path for the real world.
Scheat Sheet lists 8 Sci-Fi Movies That Accurately Predicted Future Technologies.
Slate wonders Will the Internet become self-aware?
The SkyNet factor: Four myths about science fiction and the killer robot debate. Be warned. I suspect this to be propaganda perpetrated by robot sympathizers.
Techies vs. Luddites in Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
The Telegraphy picks The 40 best space movies, starting with 2001.
Tor remembers Jay Lake: In Memoriam, Missing Jay Lake, and My Friend, Jay Lake.
"The weakness underlines the biggest trap of time machine fiction: with its emphasis on patterns and symbols, it's always in danger of devolving into a kind of interpretative game, a lit-crit mystery whose meanings must be decrypted rather than naturally perceived. Authors unbounded by time are susceptible to the allures of omniscience, which can turn their characters into puppets and snuff out the lifelike vitality of the realist tradition." Sam Sacks at Prospect Magazine writes about the rise of time machine fiction.
YA dystopias teach children to submit to the free market, not fight authority… unless that authority doesn’t want them to submit to the free market, in which case…
Interview: The Globe and Mail interviews Margaret Atwood of Stone Mattress.
Interview: The Independent interviews David Mitchell of The Bone Clocks.
Interview: The Scotsman interviews Diana Gabaldon of Outlander series.
Book Review: The Independent says of David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks “Mitchell’s observations of people are so astute, his characterisation so complex, his dialogue so sparkling, that the plunge into the supernatural feels as if your best friend just told you she believes in fairies.”
Movie Review: DorkShelf calls Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem “a sprawling, thoughtful mess of a movie that tosses a cavalcade of ideas (both visual and philosophical) at the audience with almost reckless abandon. There’s a plot, but at times that can seem almost inconsequential."
Anime Adaptations and Why I’m Worried About Ghost in the Shell
The BBC asks Is Borges the 20th Century’s most important writer?
Can You Ever Really Know an Extraterrestrial? Knowledge about aliens might be as dangerous as the aliens themselves.
Here's a directory of 28 Stories Nominated for the 2014 Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards That You Can Read Online for Free
How Is Outlander Different From The Book? It’s Actually Pretty Spot-On
Jason Sanford asks What is your science fiction worldview?
John C. Wright on The Most Perfect World From the Golden Age of Sci-Fi.
Popular Mechanics asks Could We Build a Ringworld?
Project Hieroglyph: Fighting society’s dystopian future. Pop culture has painted a darkly dystopian vision of the future. But a new book hopes to harness the power of science fiction to plot out a more optimistic path for the real world.
Scheat Sheet lists 8 Sci-Fi Movies That Accurately Predicted Future Technologies.
Slate wonders Will the Internet become self-aware?
The SkyNet factor: Four myths about science fiction and the killer robot debate. Be warned. I suspect this to be propaganda perpetrated by robot sympathizers.
Techies vs. Luddites in Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
The Telegraphy picks The 40 best space movies, starting with 2001.
Tor remembers Jay Lake: In Memoriam, Missing Jay Lake, and My Friend, Jay Lake.
"The weakness underlines the biggest trap of time machine fiction: with its emphasis on patterns and symbols, it's always in danger of devolving into a kind of interpretative game, a lit-crit mystery whose meanings must be decrypted rather than naturally perceived. Authors unbounded by time are susceptible to the allures of omniscience, which can turn their characters into puppets and snuff out the lifelike vitality of the realist tradition." Sam Sacks at Prospect Magazine writes about the rise of time machine fiction.
YA dystopias teach children to submit to the free market, not fight authority… unless that authority doesn’t want them to submit to the free market, in which case…
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