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“The Laundry” to be an RPG
Charles Stross has announced that Cubicle 7 Entertainment is going to to publish a role-playing game based on his Laundry Files series. The Laundry is a branch of the British secret service, tasked to prevent hideous alien gods from wiping out all life on Earth. Players take the part of Laundry agents, cleaning up the…
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Trivia Thursday
This 1979 film marks Mel Gibson’s first widely-distributed appearance on the U.S. silver screen. Mel played Max Rockatansky, a policeman in a post-apocalyptic society bent on revenging the deaths of his wife and child at the hands of a renegade motorcycle gang. This 1963 novel by Clifford D. Simak concerns a Civil War veteran who…
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MST3K Haiku
This blog is devoted to pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It’s oddly wonderful.
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…qua?
There are things in the wilds of the Intarwebs that make you quizzically cock your head to one side like a dog hearing a high-pitched whistle, and this is one of them. As a commenter over at Topless Robot noted, you can tell a scene is powerful when it’s just as effective when reenacted by…
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Hugo Rant Redux
Last September I posted an opinion piece in which I lamented the fact that World Science Fiction Conventions, since 2001, no longer reliably produce a Hugo award for best Science Fiction novel. There was a fairly spirited (for here) discussion regarding the relative merits of ensuring that SF retains a presence in the novel category…
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How Star Trek Should Have Ended
(via SF Signal)
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Trivia Thursday
Which of the following have not been adapted from a Heinlein story: A) Destination Moon B) The Abyss C) The Brain Eaters D) Starship Troopers Firemen no longer put out fires; they start them, for the purpose of burning books. The title refers to the temperature at which paper will catch fire. Name this Ray…
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Link Dump
Star Trek: The Abridged Script – This made me giggle. Android Karenina – The latest in what is shaping up to be a very long line of classic novels with new bits spliced in. Vader Alarm Clock – Start your morning with the Sith. Scientist Valentines – I found this a bit late for the…
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The Dork Anthem
(via @sfsignal)
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What’s Pink and Tubular?
Naked Mole Rats! (Of course.) The Smithsonian’s National Zoo recently acquired a baby Giant Pacific Octopus and touted its OctopusCam in press releases. It turns out that the zoo has a whole load of live animal cams, including ferrets, gharials, and Naked Freakin’ Mole Rats. Many of the other cams look out onto empty space…