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Indomitable Iron Man B&W #1 Preview
A couple of pages–cover and title–snatched in the dark of night (actually on a brilliant and frigid seaside morning) from Comic Related.
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Alanis Morissette is the Dark-Haired Girl
This conversation with writer/director John Alan Simon has me real real interested in this movie version of Radio Free Albemuth, which occupies a strange place in the PKD canon. Odd to see it being the first of his books to get a serious and faithful* film treatment. *(Blade Runner being serious but not ultimately faithful…
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The Perils of Eclecticism
Quoth Paolo Bacigalupi in a recent Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast: I think almost all of the big respectable science fiction and fantasy magazines have the same exact problem which is that they’re eclectic. And, eclectic products have a much harder time finding an audience who will follow them. Part of me wants to…
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Every City Its Own Genre!
The most excellent supernatural/noir novelist Charlie Huston tells the Austin American-Statesman that LA is a more SFnal city than NYC, which is one reason why his most recent book, Sleepless, is SF. He moved to LA, it seems, and the SFness of the place overcame him. This got me thinking. Which is America’s most science-fictional…
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A Toothache-Fueled Rant
Dear Internet: I do not care about your cat. Your baby is cute. Your impulse to tweet about it constantly is not, and smacks of desperation. And just so you know, everyone hates the following things: waiting in line, stupid people (especially at work), work, not having any work, dating, not having anyone to date,…
Crooked House Fictions 