Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Science Fiction
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Time Magazine’s Top 10 graphic novels of 2006 – TIME 25 Top Ten 2006 Locus’ lists for 2006 – Locus Online: Locus Magazine’s Recommended Reading: 2006:
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Link here to some photos from the set of the new direct-to-DVD Babylon 5 stories currently being produced. In theory, they’ll be out in the US in the second quarter 2007 (and who knows when in Australasia?). The page has some comments at the bottom from JMS too. See J. Michael Straczynski – B5:TLT Pre-Production…
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Wired News: Firefly Reborn as Online Universe. I’ve tended to avoid MMORPGs, but this one might be irresistible.
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Some of these are very clever. Some are very funny. Wired Magazine asks various authors to supply six (6!) word short stories. See Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories.
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Russell Kirkpatrick is a geography lecturer and writer of fantasy novels from down the road in Hamilton. I’ve just finished reading his “Fire of Heaven” trilogy, which was a good read for the stage I’m at in the thesis (i.e. something with no robots in it that is easy to read). An interesting mixture of…
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Now that’s a pretty awesome looking cake – Discworld Cake
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Joff alerts me (via email) to the news that JMS will be coming to the Auckland Armageddon in October. See pulpexpo.com – Joe Straczynski – Film and Comic Writer. (Curses! The link disappeared over the weekend) Related links: Joff’s experiences of the Wellington expo. Greenflame: Post-Armageddon. 2002 article – Wired News: Of PowerPoint and Pointlessness…
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The announcement of JMS producing new Babylon 5 material on DVD. Series of new short movies/stories set in the B5 universe, using new and existing characters. Can’t wait. See Ain’t It Cool News: New B5 Via Closet Sci-Fi Geek :: New Babylon 5 on the Way…
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Looks like the new Serenity comic book series from Dark Horse will be called “Better Days”, and will be set before the Serenity movie. It will explore some of the unresolved plots from Firefly and will be written by Joss Whedon and Brett Matthews (who did the first series). Can’t wait.
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Random links – with a geeky theme, of course. William Shatner Rocketman – Google Video. Inspirational. Leonard Nimoy – Ballad of Bilbo Baggins (MZK) – Google Video. Unforgetable. More from Nimoy and Shatner at Frogstar – Star Trek Fan Page. Outstanding. Shatner’s rendition of “Rocketman” reminded me of this version, Socketman, written by Unix hackers…