NextRead’s Short Story Month
Gav over at NextRead is dedicating May to short stories in his Short Story Month project. He’ll be reviewing short story collections, new and old, and he’ll be opening the discussion to your favorite short stories, among other issues related to the narrative form.If you’re interested in this sort of thing (as I am), you […]
Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series to Become Movie Trilogy
The news is spreading fast, but it seems like Ron Howard is working on creating a trilogy of movies based on Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. The series is to be produced through Imagine Entertainment by Brian Grazer, with Akiva Goldsman as the script writer. This trio might make a little more sense if you […]
Haul of Books 2010: Stuff For Me v.4
Not too long ago the University of Florida had a little book sale in their used book store thing in Library East. It’s hard to pass up book sales if you’re like me. I should take a picture of my apartment one day so you all can see what it looks like. For the last […]
Asimov’s Science Fiction: Now Taking Electronic Submissions!
For those of you who write science fiction and have grown as tired as I have of spending money on postage to send stories to the big three, this will come as great news. Asimov’s Science Fiction has officially adopted the electronic submission system used by Clarkesworld and several other magazines! That means you can […]
Video Found: The Anachronism (Steampunk Short Movie)
I love independent film, especially on the Internet. While Hollywood spends its time doing remakes and crappy special-effects monstrosities like Avatar, other folks with very little in terms of cash go out and make amazing short films like The Anachronism. The basic story of the video below is: two kids discover a strange squid-shaped contraption […]
Haul of Books 2010: Stuff For Me v.3
Another edition of the Haul of Books has arrived, featuring stuff I bought or received for myself! This particular edition is magazine-heavy, since I bought a whole bunch of magazines and what not some time back and have since received a few special copies of magazines in the last month or so. A lot of […]