Tag Archives: scifi
links for 2007-08-16: Elvis, PK Dick, Kevin Mitnick, Bowie
How Did Elvis Get Turned Into a Racist? – New York Times Up around the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis, there’s a number of contrarians in pursuit of cheap sensation by denigrating the man, one way or another. … more…
links for 2007-08-12: Dick’s universe
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later PK Dick from 1978 on deoxy.org. Stumbled across this again following a link in a comment on Warren’s latest column (yeah, hyeurgh! Dick-related column!) at Suicide Girls (tags: … more…
links for 2007-07-12: Scrabulous, John Foxx
Facebook | Scrabulous any Facebook users fancy a game? (tags: scrabble facebook) JOHN FOXX: The Quiet Man He walked down fractured pavements smelling the recent rain. He wore, as usual, his grey suit, white shirt and dark tie. There were … more…
links for 2007-06-29: Ballard’s Thirteen to Centaurus
YouTube – JG Ballard’s Thirteen to Centaurus (Out of the Unknown) 1965 production of Ballard story. via Ballardian, of course (tags: jg-ballard youtube)
Nigel Kneale 1922-2006
Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass, died October 29th. Apart from Quatermass, he wrote The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968) which prophesied the coming of so-called reality TV, and legendary scifi horror The Stone Tape (1972) — the scariest thing … more…
Ballard’s Alien
If Ballardian posted more frequently, or less consistently, perhaps I wouldn’t be posting links to them almost every time they update. But they don’t, and they do, and I have, again. The latest treasure is a clutch of exerpts from … more…
Battlestar Galactica
I don’t think I’ve ever posted a declaration of besottedness before here — at least, not about anyone living — but since there’s an actual story that hangs off it, I better declare an interest right from the start: Katee … more…
When In Doubt, Quote Ballard: An Interview with Iain Sinclair
Just like the headline says, an interview with Iain Sinclair at Ballardian, discussing mostly Ballard. The piece is conversational, and doesn’t really lend itself to picking out lumps of blockquote. There’s also a big piece about Crash at k-punk (possibly … more…
Gary Gygax, World Dictator?
You wouldn’t necessarily know it if, like me, you’ve been visiting Charlie Stross’s long-established blog address and waiting for something to happen, but there’s a fairly major post in the provisional post-migration-from-Blosxom version of the blog, on the his work-in-progress, … more…
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
If geeky sites get any geekier than Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, trust me, I don’t want to even hear about it. Try, if you will, to figure out who is the saddest person in the following quote, between the … more…