Oh, and I recently saw
Shaun of the Dead. It’s quite brilliant; go see it immediately.
If you’re a lucky American with one of those DVD players than can play
out-of-region DVDs (or a Brit with a regular DVD player), you can get it on DVD
now; if not, you’ll have to traipse out to the theater to see it, but I can
assure you it’s well worth it.
I’m a few days late posting a note concerning this, but my
interview
with Ellen Datlow was just published in The
Internet Review of Science Fiction. Go read it!
Went
to see Sky Captain and
the World of Tomorrow, which was much much better than I thought it
would be. Not a stunning achievement, but visually beautiful and a fun film,
quite enjoyable overall. Lots of good humor and action.
Good old-fashioned pulpy goodness. And zeppelins!
Currently grateful for movie theaters where you can lift
the arm rests between the seats.
Tobias Buckell is auctioning off some cool stuff with the proceeds going toward Grenada Relief in the wake of Hurricane Ivan. So help the Grenadans out and bid on a book or two.
Toby sez:
There are 4 copies of the WOTF XVI anthology with my story ‘In Orbite Mediavali.’
There is 1 copy of ‘Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root,’ with ‘Spurn Babylon’ in it, edited by Nalo Hopkinson
There are 3 copies of ‘Analog’ the June/July 2002 issue with my alternate history ‘A Green Thumb’ therein.
There is 1 copy of the latest anthology, ‘So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial SF&F’ with my story ‘Necahual’ in there, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan.
See Toby’s blog for more details.
Let your voice be heard!
Dave Gross of Amazing has posted a call for letters of comment. He says:
“Due to the surprising dearth of letters of comment, we’re without a full “Dispatches” for issue 606 and looking into the abyss of the deadline. Help! Send us your thoughts on issue 604, on Amazing Stories in general, or a recent book, movie, comic, or audiobook you’ve enjoyed–or hated.
“You’ll be glad you did, and we’ll be evuh so grateful.
“And you can send those to amazing@paizo.com. Don’t forget to include your city & state.”
P.S. Be sure to say you loved those audiobook reviews! ;)
Has anyone seen the new issue of Chronicle (formerly Science Fiction Chronicle)? I’m not sure what the month on the issue is, but it’s got a picture of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson on the cover (and an interview with them inside). Anyway, I was with Gordon at the post office on Friday when it arrived and he looked at it and said that Brian Herbert looks like John C. Reilly. Which wouldn’t necessarily be bad, but what he really looks like is the reanimated corpse of John C. Reilly. Really, it’s quite a ghastly photo, definitely worth checking out.
If anyone can find an image of it for me online, please post it as a comment so everyone can see it. I looked for it, but couldn’t find it (DNA’s Chronicle website has the current issue listed as December 2003). In other DNA news, Warren’s new KISS magazine showed up the other day too, in which at least half of the articles are written by one Warren Lapine. Seemed kind of odd to see a table of contents with so many articles written by the same person. But the magazine overall looks much better than most of the DNA magazines, in terms of its production values.
Here’s that cover image, courtesy of Jon Hansen.
If this cover had word balloons, they would read:
Brian Herbert: "Brains!"
Kevin J. Anderson: "I’m going to kick some ass with my
zombie friend!"
I’m off to Worldcon tomorrow morning, so if you notice a delay in slush response times or in response to emails, that’s why.
Adios!