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Holiday Cards for Geeks
It’s December 1, which means it’s officially time to freak out about whatever winter holiday you celebrate. (Unless you’re proactive like me; I’ve been freaking out for weeks now.) Here are a few cards to get you in the holiday mood. Holiday Cards for Geeks – Includes sentiments like, “May all your Christmases be #FFFFF,”…
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The Grandmasters of the Oughts
Here’s a topic we’ve tackled in chat from time to time: The new “grandmasters” of the SF genre. The 3car blog has put together a list of newer authors that have staying power, and has helpfully included listings and mini-reviews of some of each writer’s books. It is not particularly surprising that the majority are…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Treat your dinner guests to some SF-themed drinks, courtesy of SciFi Scanner’s Kevin Maher. The Blade Runner sounds yummy. (via SF Signal)
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That About Sums it Up
(via Topless Robot)
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Female Stephenson-esque Writers
A recent Ask Metafilter thread posed a rather odd question: Are there any female writers whose work is similar to Neal Stephenson? The reason I found the question somewhat odd (other than the whole “why do the writer’s chromosomes matter?” part) was that the requester was looking particularly for writers who were similar in regard…
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The Matrix Runs on Windows
This certainly explains the “deja vu is a glitch in the Matrix” idea. Link (hat tip to Herding Kittens)
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Books That Should be Movies
Considering all of the unnecessary remakes of classic SF movies, you’d think that there was no new material available for adaptation. Au contraire, says Topless Robot, now that it’s had a foreign language upgrade. They’ve put together a list of The 8 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Which Most Desperately Need Movies. I’m not sure that…
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Know Your Spock
Important safety tip! T-shirt available from The CBS Store. (via BoingBoing)
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Are the Pulps Doomed?
The Mediashift blog interviewed John Scalzi and the editors of two leading SF magazines about whether the blow that digital media has dealt to pulp magazines is fatal. They’ve been losing readers for the past 20 years, and there are now only three speculative fiction pulps still in production. Scalzi compares the magazines’ inability to…
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Toy Raygun
One nice thing about the Web is that it gives people with niche interests a way to share their particular obsession with the world, thus fractionally increasing the sum of all human knowledge. With Justin Pinchot’s Toy Raygun, we’re one step closer to achieving the noösphere. It is dedicated to “the celebration and study” of…