(1) GET YOUR VIRTUAL SDCC HYPE HERE. The event starts July 23 but today San Diego Comic-Con started its day-by-day unveiling of the five-day schedule: “The Comic-Con@Home 2020 Programming Schedule”. (The Wednesday, July 23 schedule released today is summarized by … Continue reading
(1) OKORAFOR ON BBC. BBC World Service’s program In the Studio features “Nnedi Okorafor: Creating sci-fi worlds”. The award-winning science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor always has a project—or three—on the go. From her home outside Chicago she creates stories driven … Continue reading
(1) VINTAGE. New art from Star Trek: Picard. What should we call this episode? “The Grapes of Wrath of Khan”? The big reveal on the story and characters of the new show will be at San Diego Comic-Con next week. … Continue reading
(1) HALLOWEEN VIGIL. John King Tarpinian commemorated his annual Halloween visit to Ray Bradbury’s gravesite with this photo. (2) THE MOST GHOSTS. Halloween is a good day to be publicizing books newly available for sale from Richard Dalby’s Library. One … Continue reading
(1) WELCH’S STAR WARS VINTAGES. Collect and swill ’em all! “Sparkling Red 100% Grape Juice – Star Wars” The Force is strong with these ones! Welch’s new Star Wars™ themed Sparkling Red 100% Grape Juice is the perfect addition to … Continue reading
By John Hertz: Mr. Dylan — not Mr. Dillon — won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Loud cries of How Right and How Wrong. I can see both sides. I am large, I contain multitudes. On October 13th the Los … Continue reading
At Sasquan’s Hugo Ceremony on August 22, the winners of several other significant awards were announced. Big Heart Award: Sue Francis presented the Big Heart Award for 2015 to Ben Yalow. (David A. Kyle, in charge of the award, did not attend.) … Continue reading
(1) PROLOGUE. Daniel Dern is champing at the bit to explain today’s Scroll title “(This Is) A Fine Paranormal Romance”. Deets: Via the Kern & Fields song “A Fine Romance”, “…written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was … Continue reading
The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume Two: Power & Light. Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins. Cover art by Michael Whelan. (NESFA Press, 2009) Review by Paul Weimer: Power and Light is the second of … Continue reading
The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) today announced the nominees for the 20th annual IFMCA Awards, for excellence in musical scoring in 2023. Composers John Williams and Christopher Young lead the list of composer nominees with four nominations each, … Continue reading