Catching up with my podcast queue the other day, I was slightly taken aback at the moment in episode 153 of Imaginary Worlds where Doug Jones mentioned that he’s recently turned sixty years old and finds himself having to think a bit harder nowadays about whether a younger performer might be a better fit for… Continue reading Fame while hidden from view
Tag: speculative fiction
Incorruptible
Today seems to have turned into a day of reading speculative fiction online. There are worse ways to spend a Sunday… I first read Incorruptible by Peter Watts a couple of years ago as part of the XPRIZE Flight #008 competition. It’s precisely as optimistic as you’d expect from Watts: This is the moment Malika… Continue reading Incorruptible
A short Trek
I truly wish the folks running the Short Treks series could get behind adapting Matchmaker of Mars by Edonohana. [End of a rejection letter from Campbell…] As for “The Phonemes of Aldebaran,” it’s well-written but I have to pass. Astounding is a science fiction magazine and linguistics is not a science. I mean, how can… Continue reading A short Trek
BSG is back
Happy to see Battlestar Galactica return to BBC2 tomorrow. Looks as if the plan is for two episodes a week on Saturdays, so that’ll be something to look forward to. Admittedly All This Has Happened Before and All This Will Happen Again, but perhaps this time knowing in advance how badly they lost their grip… Continue reading BSG is back
Good news, bad news?
Amazon missed an opportunity when they failed to issue a press release announcing that their planned TV adaptation of Consider Phlebas was cancelled due to special circumstances and left it at that. For the record, if the rights are picked up by someone else perhaps we’ll look back a decade from now and be glad… Continue reading Good news, bad news?
Cat Pictures Please
It’s a shame that I’ve drifted away from following short speculative fiction to the extent that I was completely unaware of Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer until, on a whim, I followed a link and found out what the Hugo voters knew back in 2016: I don’t want to be evil. I want to… Continue reading Cat Pictures Please
Don’t Panic
To mark the 42nd anniversary of the radio broadcast of the first instalment of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, BBC Radio 4 Extra are devoting a sizeable chunk of their evening schedule to programmes about the series, interspersed with the first six episodes of the story itself. I can’t help but notice… Continue reading Don’t Panic
Tales from the Loop
The teaser trailer for Amazon’s forthcoming TV adaptation of artist Simon Stålenhag’s vision of a future where the presence of a large underground particle accelerator coincided with the arrival on the scene of an array of strange machines, Tales From the Loop, already had me hooked even before I recognised the presence of Jonathan Pryce… Continue reading Tales from the Loop
Ask and ye shall receive
Following on from yesterday’s post, Ron Moore says all sorts of things about season 2: “You’re going to see things that happened in real life, but happen faster and in slightly different ways,” Moore promised. “So things like the coming of the personal computer, internet, variations on communications and email and cell phones and all… Continue reading Ask and ye shall receive
For All Mankind season 1
So, For All Mankind closed with a slightly loner-than-usual season finale that perhaps signalled that when next we see these characters they might have moved beyond the Apollo era. Be sure to stick around for the post-credit scene for the first season finale. I really hope that signals another jump forward in the timeline, because… Continue reading For All Mankind season 1