By Carl Slaughter: Bless YouTube’s heart. YouTube suggests videos based on my previous searches. I watch a lot of Star Trek clips and a lot “best episodes/movies” reviews. I also watch a lot of science fiction trailers, as well as other … Continue reading
The NESFA Press will release a limited edition of A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, An Exploration by Nat Segaloff in late Fall 2016, followed by a general hardcover edition in early Spring 2017. Written over the … Continue reading
(1) VALUE OF SPECIAL THEME ISSUES. Neil Clarke has written a blog post, “Specials”, to discuss what he learned from a discussion he launched yesterday on Twitter. So yesterday I took to Twitter to get an answer to a question … Continue reading
(1) OLD PROSE, YOUNG EYEBALLS. This time James Davis Nicoll set the table at Young People Read Old SF with Lawrence O’Donnell’s “Vintage Season” – O’Donnell being a pseudonym used by both C.L. Moore and her husband, Henry Kuttner, though … Continue reading
(1) BATTLE STATIONS. Reason.tv profiles “Axanar: The $1 Million Star Trek Fan Film CBS Wants to Stop” Fan-created stories, comic books, and art soon evolved into fan-made film and video productions. There was the carpet layer from Michigan who spent … Continue reading
New Ellison works are being released in May by Skyboat Media and HarlanEllisonBooks.com. Right now Skyboat Media is distributing copies of the full cast audiobook of Harlan Ellison’s City on the Edge of Forever to Kickstarter donors. The recording goes on … Continue reading
By James H. Burns: With all this talk of Christopher Lloyd and Back To The Future, I’m reminded of a story. And besides, today is the supremely talented actor’s seventy-seventh birthday. Eight years ago, I met Lloyd, but it was … Continue reading
(1) The Art of The Lord of the Rings by Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull was released in the UK on October 8. The American edition, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, will be out on October 13. Wayne and Christina say … Continue reading
(1) Just finished Ancillary Mercy tonight. What a cast of characters! “Ohg, lbh xabj, lbh’er nyy bhg bs svfu fnhpr. Naq V qba’g guvax V’ir rire frra n jne orsber!” “V’z tbvat gbb,” fnvq Fcurar. “Rkpryyrag!” ercyvrq Genafyngbe Mrvng. “V’yy … Continue reading
Take a peek at Tim Russ’ Star Trek Renegades, with Adrienne Wilkinson as Captain Lexxa Singh, Russ as Tuvok, and Walter Koenig and Robert Picardo cast in other roles, in this new trailer. It is nearly ten years after Voyager’s … Continue reading