As the title says, apparently John Christopher’s Tripod Trilogy is being adapted to the big screen (by Touchstone Pictures). I’ve never read the books, but I’m entirely cool with more science fiction novels being turned into movies. The more the merrier. Any thoughts from folks who have read the series? Or are those of us in the U.S. mostly ignorant of Christopher? If you liked this post, please stumble it, digg it, or buzz it.
Recently New Scientist had an article about scientists who had managed to transport ions across a room. They didn’t put it in a box and walk it over. No. They actually transported it. As in: Poof, it’s there! Pretty incredible if you ask me. Maybe we’ll do two ions this time. And then a goldfish! Who knows! If you liked this post, please stumble it, digg it, or buzz it.
According to SF Scope, Realms of Fantasy Magazine is closing down, their April 2009 issue being the last one. Needless to say, I am quite upset by this because RoF is/was one of my favorite fantasy magazine (fiction, that is, as I don’t care much for anything else). It’s one of the few magazines that succeeded in putting two stories in the same issue that eventually became personal favorites. I loved the fiction in this magazine (didn’t much care for their customer support) and I am sad to see it go. I even have a story out to them right now, which obviously will be coming back to me unread. For those saying “see, I knew magazines were going to die,” you should take note that this death has little to do with the supposed decline of short fiction, and more to do with the faltering economy, which is doing a fine job of destroying everything now that people are being idiots by not spending money they should be… Meh!
Apparently John Updike passed away today at the tender age of 76 (from lung cancer). That’s somewhat disheartening for some reason. He will be missed! (Thanks to Grasping For the Wind)
Apparently there was an issue with the right sidebar for those of you who use Internet Explorer: the right sidebar didn’t show up and the footer often wasn’t there. This seemed to have something to do with the amount of posts on the main page and should be fixed for those of you who make up 20% of my traffic. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you in the past. Thanks, Shaun P.S.: I forgot to thank Mulluane for her help, which was quite rude of me. Thanks Mulluan!
Firstly, Blood of the Muse has a giveaway for Betwixt by Tara Bray Smith. S. J. Day is giving away a bunch of EVE stuff. Stella Matutina is giving away a Ranger’s Apprentice book.Then Mulluane was kind enough to link up a whole bunch of book giveaways around the blogosphere. So, go enter some contests and win some free stuff!
