Archive | March, 2006

Carey and Duncan enter the Matrix

7. March 2006

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No, I don’t mean Mike Carey and Hal Duncan are getting garbed in tight, black leather and cool shades to fight an evil artificial intelligence (although the tight black leather may be a possibility), rather that both excellent scribes get the full-on interview treatmen over on the SF ‘zine site The Matrix, with both making [...]

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DW in NYT

7. March 2006

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ICV2 reports that the new Doctor Who series, currently airing on the SciFi Channel in the USA, enjoyed a full-page article in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, with positive comments throughout. Alas you need to subscribe to read the actual article on the NYT’s site, but great to see the new Who [...]

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Stardust

7. March 2006

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Neil Gaiman has been talking a bit more about the movie adaptation of Stardust, adding a caveat that the information on Ain’t It Cool News isn’t necessarily completely accurate. He also mentions that he has a new short story collection, Fragile Things, due for publication next autumn – new writing from Neil, short or long [...]

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The Tiptree Award

7. March 2006

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Cheryl over at Emerald City reports that this year’s Tiptree Award has been announced, with the always-excellent Geoff Ryman winning for Air – nice one, Geoff!

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Planet of the Apes

6. March 2006

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The 1960s, a time of feverish experimentation in almost all areas of human life: the sexual revolution is going on, new drugs are being taken for recreation, censorship is being pushed back, gender roles are being re-defined, racial tensions and demands for racial equality are growing, the world sits on the atomic knife-edge of Mutually [...]

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Conflux art

6. March 2006

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Trevor Stafford of Australian convention Conflux writes to tell us details of an exciting major art show attached to Conflux for SF, Fantasy, Horror, comic and manga artists: Entries are now open for the new Conflux International Art Show which features AUD $6000 (approx. US $4500 / UK £2520) in art show prizes for science [...]

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Read Potter, go to Hell

6. March 2006

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The Vatican’s top exorcist, Reverend Gabriele Amorth has condemned JK Rowling’s incredibly successful Harry Potter novels for leading children to the Devil: “By reading Harry Potter, a young child will be drawn into magic and from there it is a simple step to Satanism and the devil.” The new Pope has also condemned the popular [...]

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Wallace and Gromit and Oscar

6. March 2006

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Hurrah for Aardman Animation: Wallace and Gromit – Curse of the Were Rabbit walked off with fresh Oscar glory last night at the Academy Awards as they took the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. It was a pretty good year for traditional methods of animation as the other contenders in that category were the also [...]

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Moore gets the Culture Show treatment

3. March 2006

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My good chum, Irish SF supreme and expert on all things Alan Moore, Pádraig, let me know that the BBC’s Culture Show is flagging up an appearance by the great man (Alan, not Pádraig, although he too is great in his own inimitable way) on their Next Week (Thursday 9th) part of their site: “A [...]

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World Book Day

2. March 2006

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Today is the day the UK celebrates World Book Day, where booksellers, librarians, writers and teachers try to raise awareness of writing and reading, two of the most basic yet astonishing skills a person ever learns; language is a key to unlimited worlds and the portal is the book. Or if you are Hal Duncan’s [...]

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V gets more good advance reviews

2. March 2006

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The V For Vendetta movie, which many fans of the original work, including myself, were hoping would be good but were more than a little worried about (especially after the casting change mid-shoot and the movie being put back several months), has had some more good word-of-mouth. Following on from a very good review in [...]

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G for Guardian, V For Vendetta

1. March 2006

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Sarah at the Guardian newspaper (who have published some excellent articles on comics artists and graphic novels in recent years) informs me that they are holding a free V For Vendetta exhibition of David Lloyd’s superb artwork in the run up to the movie release later this month. The exhibition runs from Tuesday 7th March [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group March

1. March 2006

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After last night’s interesting discussion of language in Sam Delany’s classic Babel-17 we move on to the book for March which is the Boooker-shortlisted new work from Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, which is also one of the final nominess on this year’s prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist. The meeting will be in [...]

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The Illustrated Anita

1. March 2006

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Dabel Brothers, who brought us fantasy novelist George R R Martin’s Hedge Knight among other licensed projects, have announced they are bringing the internationally best-selling Laurell K Jamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series to comics. The first in this new monthly series, Guilty Pleasures, is expected to arrive in bookstores in June, with graphic novel [...]

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Constitutional Simpsons

1. March 2006

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“I swear allegiance to animation, with colour and laughs for all… One audience under Matt Groening…” or perhaps so would go a revised Pledge of Allegiance for little American kids to recite in school of a morning since a new poll in the USA reveals that more Americans have knowledge of the Simpsons than the [...]

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