Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Sci-Fi Round-Up: February 11, 2015


"Escape Revisited" by Malaysia-based Zhenya Chung


Interview:  My Bookish Ways interviews Sharon Lynn Fisher, author of Echo 8.

Interview: My Bookish Ways interviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia of Signal to Noise.

Interview: The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Karen Lord of The Galaxy Game.

Interview: Slate interviews Margaret Atwood, author of Stone Matress.

Interview: Suvudu interviews Arwen Elys Dayton, author of Seeker.
Movie Review: The Best Part of Jupiter Ascending Is the Paperwork
 
Movie Review: The Decider calls Jupiter Ascending “Another Cog In The Pseudo-Feminist Hollywood Blockbuster Machine” I’m guessing there’s going to be backlash

Movie Review: Buffalo.com calls Jupiter Ascending “a bloated mess” 

Movie Review: The Register calls Jupiter Ascending “a literally laughable train wreck of a film,” and warns that it is “To be seen ONLY for schadenfreude”

News: San Francisco minimum wage hike kills iconic science fiction bookstore

6 Reasons Why Starship Troopers Is the New "The Art of War"

6 Splashy Space Operas to Top Jupiter Ascending.

Bio names their Favorite Sci-Fi Villains in anticipation of Jupiter Ascending
 
Brian McClellan on How Star Wars Helped Me Finish My First Epic Fantasy Trilogy.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: so nearly a classic.

Critical Mass: Jupiter Ascends… but are the Wachowskis in free-fall?

Entertainment Weekly explains How the Wachowskis became George Lucas

From Back to the Future to Project Almanac, a short history of suburban sci-fi.

Gizmodo asks ​When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It? Giulio Prisco responds in a piece on Religion in the time of superintelligence.

How Predestination Made Jumping Through Time Look So Damn Good

Jermey Anderberg explains 5 Reasons Why We Love Apocalypse Books.

Jupiter Ascending: The L.A. Times takes a look at The Wachowskis’ long journey

Jupiter Ascending Flops: Why the Wachowskis’ Failure Is Bad for Movies

Jupiter Ascending is Hollywood’s Latest Look at Income Inequality

Kubricks’ 2001: One Man’s Incredible Odyssey: “With today’s article I’ve decided to cover the truly outstanding visual effects and design work from one of the single most influential and remarkable pieces of cinema of the twentieth century – Stanley Kubricks’ 2001-A SPACE ODYSSEY – a film that gets better and better with the passing years.”

A moving appreciation of Ray Bradbury, with thoughts on Dandelion Wine.

MythBusters’ Adam Savage Explains Why Interstellar’s TARS Is The Perfect Robot

No, Jupiter Ascending Is Not Eddie Redmayne’s Norbit… even if it comes close.

What is cli-fi? Sarah Holding on a book genre you may not have heard of before. Not sci-fi but cli-fi: fiction that explores the consequences of climate change – and possibilities to rewrite the future

With a video that will certainly not spark endless nerd-rage the Smithsonian answers with finality the question of who would win in a fight to the death between an Apache AH-64 and a dragon

Yes, It Matters If The Science In Your Science Fiction Story Is Accurate

Your childhood entertainment is not sacred, argues The Dissolve.


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