Kirkus has got a great short essay on Joe Haldeman and the genesis of his brilliant military science fiction novel The Forever War. If you like military S/F, do yourself and favour and read it. If you have already read…
Blastr reports that Scarlett Johansson has been offered the role of Motoko Kusanagi (the Major) in DreamWorks live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. Not a bad choice, but not the best either. I have the feeling that she’s…
Blastr reports that there is a reboot of the 1960s television series Lost In Space. Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who penned Dracula Untold, have been hired to script the revamped Lost in Space. The original series was set in…
A nice short essay about Dune over at Tor.com. Dune is Herbert’s great contribution to genre fiction and fiction at large, but there is no single, definitive reason for its popularity and longevity. Rather, Dune is so complex, so layered…
Upcoming4me has listed the release date and short synopsis of the new Neal Stephenson book. I know that his dense and slow moving Baroque Trilogy lost a lot of his readers accustomed to his fast paced science fiction. Reamde wasn’t…
It might be a commercial site, but it’s got a nice info-graphic on the changing styles of Star Trek uniforms over the years. I know that there is a ret-con out there somewhere for why the command and operations changed…
Just because it’s freakin’ cool. BBC News – Franklin search: Canada confirms ship as HMS Erebus MS
Django Wexler over at SF Signal reviews anime he watches, and this week he has a short piece on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. SAC rounds things out by having great voice-acting, excellent production values and action, some…
Petition · Erect A Life Size Wolverine Statue In City Hall · Change.org As a proud Edmontonian, we need this to counterbalance the Soviet Era architecture and urban sprawl. Get on it people! MS
Adaptation Watch: Kim Stanley Robinson’s MARS Trilogy Being Adapted for TV – SF Signal This is fantastic news. Robinson’s Mars Trilogy is one of the most powerful, deep, well written and important pieces of science fiction of the bast 50…