[SciFiNoir Lit] Nubia - the other Wonder Woman
http://www.carolastrickland.com./comics/wwcentral/misc_indexes/nubia/nubia.html After Nubia reiterates her claim that she and only she is Wonder Woman, and that their next duel will decide the title, Hippolyta tells her, Aye, Nubia, that IS the law. ANYONE may challenge my daughter's right to that title. Until then -- may I wish that YOU find favor in wise HERA'S EYES as you already have in MINE? Princess Nubia and her troupe depart towards her FLOATING ISLAND realm perpetually girdled by concealing fog... There Nubia approaches a Central African-type village with straw huts and men (there don't seem to be any other women) in vivid feathery headdresses, bare feet and loincloths. The men Goolah and Kenyah wage a fierce sword fight for the hand of their princess. But Nubia interrupts with her own sword, saying, No man will ever own NUBIA!
[SciFiNoir Lit] Mark reads Twilight for you
Mark has been reading Twilight section by section, with his assessment of why these books are full of the sexism and racism. Here's one post: http://markreadstwilight.buzznet.com/user/journal/5415701/mark-reads-eclipse-chapter-13/
[SciFiNoir Lit] ICON back in print after 15 years
http://dwaynemcduffie.com.lamphost.net/wordpress/?p=872 My personal favorite run of Icon, back in print after over 15 years: STRANDED ON EARTH FOR 10 GENERATIONS In 1839, an alien starliner malfunctioned and exploded. A jettisoned life pod crashed in the middle of a cotton field, in the Deep South. The pod was equipped with a unique survival mechanism, which reconfigured the genetic structure of its passenger to match whatever life form it first encountered. And so it happened that Miriam, the slave woman who discovered the pod, found inside a baby boy with her mother's eyes. Stranded on our primitive world for nearly two centuries, the alien takes the guise of successful lawyer, Augustus Freeman IV. Eventually, encouraged by the passion of an opinionated young woman named Rocket, he dons a costume to symbolize Humanity's potential, and uses his incredible powers to benefit us all as Icon, the Hero of Dakota. A HERO IS GOING HOME Now things are about to change, Icon's people have found him, and he's about to return to his home in another galaxy. But Rocket refuses to give up the dream. The world needs Icon, and she's determined to find someone to fill the role, even if it means somehow teaching the brain-damaged, 1970's blaxploitation buffoon Buck Wild what it means to be a hero. Writer Dwayne McDuffie (STATIC SHOCK, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA) and artist M.D. Bright (GREEN LANTERN) present a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed story of hope and heroism both years ahead of its time and long overdue. This features the complete saga of the belief-defyin' Buck Wild, Mercenary Man, reveals the secret of the Big Bang, chronicles Icon's return to his home planet, presents the adventures of the all-new Icon and Rocket, and includes guest shots from Static, Hardware, Dharma, Wise Son, DMZ and more! With guest artists including John Paul Leon and Chrisscross. We got three Eisner nominations for this run. If you've always wanted to try my comic book stuff, this would be a great place to start.
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Stephen Hawking---a space alien himself?
All of which is preferable to the pusillanimous punditry you have been trafficking in lately. There must be a Curmudgeons R-Us self-help group somewhere near you. ~(no)rave! --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Uncle Ruckus belsidus2...@... wrote: (It must fairly reek with ebullient insouciance--or is it irrational exuberance?) --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Kelwyn ravenadal@ wrote: I am currently championing N.K. Jemison's The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. ~rave! ---
Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] Stephen Hawking---a space alien himself?
I am currently championing N.K. Jemison's The One Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. ~rave! --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Uncle Ruckus belsidus2...@... wrote: (Anyone recommend any NEW novels here? I haven't read anything I would recommend since Accelerando by Charles Stross and Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. I tend to do the classics--I will check out Manhattan Transfer.) BTW -- Have you ever read Manhattan Transfer by John E. Stith. I purchased it a few days ago when a friend told me my novel reminded him of that book. I'll get crackin on it in a week or so. Any novels you would recommend? ---
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: The Hollywood Journey continues...
ebullient-(adj) having the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings [from the Latin ebulliens to bubble out) insouciance-(n) light-hearted unconcern: nonchalance [from the French in + soucier to trouble, disturb] i.e. the enthusiastic expression of light-hearted non-chalance (tinged with trouble and the ability to disturb). An apt and succinct description of the movie (I'll explain these words later). Now, back to my regularly scheduled question. ~rave? --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Uncle Ruckus belsidus2...@... wrote: Iron Man 2 snaps, crackles and pops with the ebullient insouciance that made 1 such an unexpected delight (You explain this first! Ebullient insouciance? Don Heck is spinning in his grave) --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Kelwyn ravenadal@ wrote: Explain this to me like I am a six year-old. What do these two factoids mean? ~rave? ---
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: The Hollywood Journey continues...
Don Heck? What does a comic book artist have to do with my review of the new Iron Man movie? I mean, it was Jack Kirby who designed the Iron Man armor and the new Jon Favreau/Robert Downey, Jr. incarnation has little to do with the Larry Lieber/Heck/Kirby Iron Man that first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39. ~rave? --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Uncle Ruckus belsidus2...@... wrote: Iron Man 2 snaps, crackles and pops with the ebullient insouciance that made 1 such an unexpected delight (You explain this first! Ebullient insouciance? Don Heck is spinning in his grave) --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Kelwyn ravenadal@ wrote: Explain this to me like I am a six year-old. What do these two factoids mean? ~rave? ---
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: The Hollywood Journey continues...
Explain this to me like I am a six year-old. What do these two factoids mean? ~rave? --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, gillbranion gillbran...@... wrote: My original story (novel) and screenplay, The Forgotten Prince, is OPTIONED to: LINCOLN ROAD PICTURES, LLC 444 Brickell Ave., Suite 51-111 Miami, FL 33131 http://www.lincolnroadpictures.com/ I am represented by: BUSINESS AFFAIRS GROUP, P.A. 344 Hauser Blvd Suite 101 Los Angeles CA 90036 http://www.busaffairs.com/ I plan to meet with Lakeshore Entertainment Group. http://www.lakeshoreentertainment.com/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Quality of hard cover books (David Anthony Durham's Acacia)
I just purchased a hard cover copy of Book One of David Anthony Durham's Acacia series from Amazon.com. for $14.50 (including tax and shipping). I mention this because the book I received is not only gorgeous, it feels great in my hands. The cover is glossy, the title of the book and the author's name have raised letters, and the border on the cover creates an almost holographic effect. In addition, the pages are perfectly finished (I HATE when I purchase a hardcover book and the pages have ragged edges). I, personally, have been solely disappointed by the (lack of) quality of many of the books I have purchased recently. ~rave!
[SciFiNoir Lit] 11 Science Fiction Novels for Fantasy Fans
http://io9.com/5518938/11-science-fiction-novels-for-fantasy-fans If you're a fantasy lover who's avoided science fiction novels, maybe you just haven't found the right gateway drug. Here are 11 novels that bridge the gap between fantasy and science fiction, by fitting into both categories.
[SciFiNoir Lit] Head Blogger opportunity (Alicia Keys)
http://jobview.monster.com/Head-Blogger-Job-New-York-NY-87284537.aspx Head Blogger ATTENTION: Public Relations Rock Stars, Bloggers Social Media Moguls! Work for Alicia Keys! Experience creating, writing, and editing a blog, website, and/or print publication. A poised, passionate, and unique voice able to creatively express yourself. A background in Public Relations, Marketing / Web Marketing, Media Relations, Communications, Journalism, Writing, Digital Media, Internet Canvassing, and/or Social Media. Experience using web development tools and software such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft on Demand, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, WordPress, LiveJournal, and Digital Media Platforms. Actively lead, manage, and influence peers in developing creative media content. A thirst for Arts Entertainment, pop culture, current events, politics, and networking. A demonstrated ability to motivate and encourage women through the discussion of women's issues.
[SciFiNoir Lit] India's copyright bill gets it right
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/22/indias-copyright-bil.html India's new copyright bill sounds like a pretty good piece of work: it declares private, personal copying to be fair dealing (like US fair use) and limits the prohibition on breaking DRM so that it's only illegal to do so if you're also violating copyright. That means that you can break the DRM on your iPad to move your books to your Kindle or vice-versa. It also makes it legal to make, distribute and sell tools to accomplish this.
[SciFiNoir Lit] Why African writers die paupers
http://kalamu.posterous.com/info-fame-and-famine-why-african-writers-cont Only a few African writers can live comfortably off royalties from their writing names such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri and Nuruddin Farah. The only Kenyan fiction writer who can live off the royalties from his books is Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
[SciFiNoir Lit] Third World Worlds
http://www.asimovs.com/issue_1004-05/onbooks.shtml
[SciFiNoir Lit] World SF, worth reading BEFORE offering an opinion
http://www.haikasoru.com/science-fiction/world-sf-worth-reading-before-developing-an-opinion/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Phillip K. Dick: The paranoid prophet
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/24/entertainment/la-ca-philip-k-dick24-2010jan24 When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction titan: a wide-ranging conversation, fueled by wine and beer, about religion, philosophy and Beethoven. The night began the usual way. But it took a strange turn as Dick's wife, Tessa, and her brother began grabbing lamps and chairs. She and her brother were carrying things out of the house, recalls Powers. I said, `Phil, they're taking stuff, is this OK?' `Powers, let me give you some advice, in case you should ever find yourself in this position,' Dick said. `Never oversee or criticize what they take. It's not worth it. Just see what you've got left afterward, and go with that.' And then, Powers recalls, her brother said, `Could you guys lift your glasses? We want the table.' Scott Timberg in the LAT, via 3QuarksDaily
[SciFiNoir Lit] lazy author Stephen King releases his 51st novel [18 November 2009]
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/article/116440-self-proclaimed-lazy-author-stephen-king-releases-his-51st-novel/ Self-proclaimed `lazy' author Stephen King releases his 51st novel By James Lileks Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) You know, I'm a lazy son of a gun. So says Stephen King: a man who just published a story in the New Yorker and a review of the Raymond Carver biography in the New York Review of Books. He also has a piece in the horror mag Fangoria and a poem in the current issue of Playboy. Anything else? Under the Dome, his 51st novel, all 1,072 pages, drops this month. He just finished a five-part graphic novel for DC comics, as well. In his spare time, perhaps between putting away the breakfast dishes and waiting for the computer to boot up, he wrote a musical with John Mellencamp. Lazy? We'll get to that. Let's get the obvious stuff out of the way first. No, he's not spooky. Anyone who expects a creepy guy with a ghoulish laugh probably thinks Vincent Price sat around the house in a black cape, casting spells. Stephen King is an affable, funny, gracious, effortlessly conversational fellow. He could be a guy you worked with in a college restaurant who'd dropped out but knew lots of stuff and had some interesting ideas. A normal fellow except for the part about being one of the most successful authors in human history, the American answer to Dickens. His latest, Under the Dome, might be described as `The Stand' Under Glass. It has the epic length and apocalyptic character of his eschatological pandemic classic, but instead of a cross-country tale of harrowing collapse, the story unfolds under a clear dome that seals off a small town in Maine (just north of Castle Rock, for all you Constant Readers). It can't be breached. There's no explanation. How things fall apart, how ordinary folk react to extraordinary, inexplicable circumstances these are timeless King themes. So perhaps it's apt that they come together in a book he's been working on for longer than half of his fans have been alive. I started it in 1976, got about 75 pages into it and then I saw what the scope of the thing was going to be, how many technological issues it raised, and I buckled. I'm not a sci-fi writer; I don't know a lot about technology, so I thought I'd try again, set it in an apartment building, and then I wouldn't have to deal with what the weather would be like under a dome. But I didn't like any of the characters, so I put it away. When he returned to the book years later, he had help with issues most of us don't confront in our jobs: the proper way to amputate a leg, meteorology in closed systems and the consumption rate of LP gas, which matters a lot when you're cut off from civilization, all you have is propane, and most of it's been diverted by the bad guys. But King had the same question as the readers: What caused a typical American town to be cut off from the world on an ordinary October day? I knew what was generating the dome, but I had no idea who or why or what. I think things happen, and we don't understand why; one of the great attractions of some stories is the uncertainty. That's his strong suit, really; the uncertainties provide more delicious shivers than the answers. From a Buick 8, a novel about the Maine Highway Patrol that also happens to be about a car from another world that spews nightmarish flora from its trunk, has no answers. We're not really sure what happened in the `20s at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining, are we? There's a handful of smoke at the heart of his best stories. Is this any different? I went into this with a commitment to letting the reader know they find out why it all happened. In a book this long, the reader deserves an explanation. That's reader, singular. Not readers. It's a one-on-one relationship. At this point in his career, the 62-year-old King has extraordinary creative latitude, but he doesn't write to the readers' expectations; he writes first for himself and the work. With `Under the Dome' I wanted to write a story that's all story, he said. I wanted to amuse myself, because if it doesn't interest me, it won't interest anyone else. When he first starting selling big, he hit a sweet spot that seldom happens in publishing, and is rarely maintained over decades: instant connection with a large audience. It was as if the subconscious of the era was a downed power line, sparking and dancing, and King just happened to pick it up and plug it in. Or so it seemed. The success annoyed some critics, who regarded the books as the literary equivalent of a big tub of buttered popcorn. The much-praised movie version of The Shining was seen more as director Stanley Kubrick's work than King's, and the pop-cult mulch that King heaped around his stories made it easy to dismiss them as things you'd take to occupy the hours on a beach vacation. Misery, a lean, horrifying and grimly comic account of a popular
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What DVD's are you watching?
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, B Smith daikaij...@... wrote: If QT is to be believed he plans on doing a Basterds-centric Inglorious Basterds prequel. We need more Hugo Stiglitz! This is so funny to me because this has become my best friend's rallying cry every time we discuss the movie: We need more Hugo Stiglitz! ~rave! http://twitter.com/ravenadal http://theworldebon.blogspot.com
[SciFiNoir Lit] Why book trailers don't go viral
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-fields/why-book-trailers-dont-go_b_326029.html
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What DVD's are you watching?
The Fall (the visual imagery is stunning) Inglourious Basterds (I want more Aldo Rain, more Basterds and less Natzis!) Foxy Brown (got it for $4 at Blockbuster - wait til she takes off her blouse - JESUS, she can act!) American Violet (must see DVD) District 9 (it was a gift - I am not a fan) The Hangover (had to see what all the fuss was about) Precious (must see DVD) ~rave! --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Uncle Ruckus belsidus2...@... wrote: Watchmen Director's Cut Straight From the Projects How We Did It Ken Burns' The Civil War
[SciFiNoir Lit] Role call: What are you reading?
I am reading Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan and thoroughly enjoying her post apocalypse novel. It is eerily precognitive about the incipient dangers of giving too much of our lives over to smart tech. ~rave! http://twitter.com/ravenadal http://theworldebon.blogspot.com
[SciFiNoir Lit] Amazon sells more eBooks than actual books
Amazon has announced that it sold lots of Kindle eReaders this Christmas. And what's more interesting is that Amazon sold more eBooks on Christmas day than actual books. Are we moving towards a world where regular paper books are going to become a thing of the past? http://nexus404.com/Blog/2009/12/27/amazon-sells-record-number-of-kindle-ereaders-amazon-sells-more-kindle-ebooks-than-actual-books-this-christmas/
[SciFiNoir Lit] Any fans of Kathleen Ann Goonan
Any fans of Kathleen Ann Goonan, particularly her novels Queen City Jazz, Mississippi Blues, and Crecent City Rhapsody?
[SciFiNoir Lit] Go broke on one NY Times Bestseller a year
http://feenooy.notlong.com Paranormal romance author Lynn Viehl bared all last week she posted her complete royalty statement from her publisher, for her New York Times bestselling book Twilight Fall. And the details might make you reconsider a career as a novelist. ~(no)rave!
[SciFiNoir Lit] JC Hutchins SF novel 7th Son serialized on Boing Boing
Cory Doctorow wrote a blog about posting novels for free on the internet (http://chuoti.notlong.com). He's a co-owner and editor at boingboing.net and this is him putting his mouth where his money is. ~rave! JC Hutchins's sf novel 7TH SON serialized here on Boing Boing, Part 1 J.C. Hutchins' sci-fi thriller novel 7th Son: Descent will be released in North American bookstores on Oct. 27. When dozens of publishing houses rejected 7th Son in 2005, J.C. reckoned the book would never be published. But convinced the story he'd told was worth sharing, he took to the podwaves in 2006 and released 7th Son: Descent as a free serialized podcast novel. The story -- a modern-day tale about human cloning, memory recording, government conspiracies and a villain bent on global chaos -- captured the imagination of tens of thousands of listeners. Thanks to the quality of the story and the evangelism of these fans, an editor at St. Martin's Press took notice of 7th Son: Descent. The company offered to publish it. Hutchins is one of a few podnovelists who have landed such a deal with a major publisher. To celebrate the Oct. 27 release of the book, J.C. is releasing the print edition of 7th Son: Descent in several serialized formats: PDF, blog text, and audio. We think J.C.'s personal story -- and the 7th Son novel -- is worthy of support, and are helping distribute the text version of the novel at Boing Boing for the next ten weeks. What's the book about? Here's the jacket copy: As America reels from the bizarre presidential assassination committed by a child, seven men are abducted from their normal lives and delivered to a secret government facility. Each man has his own career, his own specialty. All are identical in appearance. The seven strangers were grown -- unwitting human clones -- as part of a project called 7th Son. Intrigued? Check out the first serialized installment of 7th Son at the link below. You can support the book by purchasing a copy at Amazon, Barnes Noble or Borders, or printing this PDF order form and presenting it at your favorite bookstore. You can learn more about the book at J.C.'s site. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/14/jc-hutchinss-sf-nove.html
