Will Smith wisecracks, whimsical aliens, and special effects abound in the new film, but the most effective element, critics say, is its unexpected emotional punch...
Fantasticon is an annual science fiction, fantasy and horror festival. Fantasticon is primarily about literature, but also includes comics, film and tv. Guests from previous years include authors like Lene Kaaberbøl, Josefine Ottesen, Christopher Priest, William J. Maryson, Harry Harrison, Norman Spinrad, Gwyneth Jones, Charles Stross and Catherine Asaro. MOSCOW -- An English-language screen adaptation of the classic Russian science fiction novel Chelovek-Amfibiya (Amphibian Man) is to be jointly produced by Russia's Trikita Entertainment, Italy's Lumiq Studios and Germany's Bavaria Film Partners. 
[...] Comic strategies, however, can turn a satirical spotlight on the assumptions which might cause nuclear war. Far from avoiding nuclear war, they deflect its morally oppressive weight, masking their local subjects with a deadpan narrative. [...]
by José Galisi Filho A week or so back I was kindly invited to contribute to an SF Signal mind-meld discussion around the question: Are SF writers "slacking off" or is science fiction still the genre of "big ideas"? If so, what authors are supplying these ideas for the next generation of scientists and engineers? 
I место: Полчаса города-леса (Д.Санин) За ними, с минимальным отрывом, идут «Сашка и динозавтр» и «Старик и Космос», поделившие 4 и 5 место. На 6 месте рассказ «Как я родился». Кроме того, отменно порадовали «Предъявите ваши документы», «Проба Генри» и «Курьер». Приз зрительских симпатий достанется Виктору Гвору за рассказ «Не бывает уважительных причин». 
It turns out that the most iconic scenes in some classic films (or even in the entire careers of the guys who directed them) are totally lifted from other movies you probably haven't seen.
I met Philip K. Dick in 1964, and it struck me how funny he was. I had just read The Man in the High Castle, and expected a rather dour sort. He had a way of comically falling out of a chair. At dinner he smoked a cigar and ate spaghetti simultaneously. [...]
by Gregory Benford, Nebula Award-Winning Science Fiction author, books for hard Sci-Fi fans and YA. Via addkerberos Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space: The Fantastika and the Classical World. A Science Fiction Foundation Conference 29 June – 1 July 2013 At The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool Guests of Honour/Plenary Speakers: Edith Hall, Nick Lowe, and Catherynne M. Valente
Call for papers The culture of the Classical world continues to shape that of the modern West. Those studying the Fantastika (science fiction, fantasy and horror) know that the genres have some of their strongest roots in the literature of the Graeco-Roman world (Homer’s Odyssey, Lucian’s True History). At the same time, scholars of Classical Reception are increasingly investigating all aspects of popular culture, and have begun looking at science fiction. However, scholars of the one are not often enough in contact with scholars of the other. This conference aims to bridge the divide, and provide a forum in which sf and Classical Reception scholars can meet and exchange ideas. 
Joss Whedon's “The Avengers” was released in U.S. theaters last weekend and is already breaking records, having usurped the all-time opening weekend ...
Organizer Casey Bassett of South Fork said he started working on the idea of a science-fiction convention in the Johnstown area last August. |
Picking Up After Intergalactic Daytrippers: Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky | Tor.com
[...] The Strugatskys’ novel had a contorted and convoluted publishing history in the Soviet era, described in detail by Boris Strugatsky in his afterword. The authors struggled less with government censorship in the traditional sense as with an institutional objection to “coarse” language, anything deemed to reflect “crude, observable, and brutal reality.” [...] by Karin L. Kross 
The Philip K. Dick Festival, scheduled for September 22-23 in San Francisco, is sure to be a heady, reality-bending time. 
[...] Images of urban dystopias and concerns about the future of humanity arise, too, in French cinema of the 1960s. In Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965), Lemmy Caution participates in a science-fiction/film noir adventure in which he is pitted against a supercomputer which, like the Lord of Metropolis, runs a future Paris. The computer suppresses political opposition through mind control and, when that fails, through murder. [...] 
Колонка колумниста на портале Новости литературы: писатель-фантаст Владимир Васильев рассказывает о семинаре молодых писателей-фантастов Дубулты-89...
via @sergeberezhnoy 
Ian Sales, taking his responsibilities as editor of this collection of proper hard SF stories and non-fiction pieces seriously, put it out to a number of people to review. Locus Online News (The list of 2011 Nebula Awards winners, via @locusmag http://t.co/l5Kt5IOF...)... В центре внимания — фэнская деятельность. 
[...] I nie próbuję bynajmniej spychać w ten sposób fantastykę z powrotem do getta, wręcz przeciwnie, to główny nurt jest w odwrocie. [...]
QFANT.PL - fantastyka, fantastyka naukowa, fantasy, kryminał, dwumiesięcznik zaprasza autorów i czytelników...
autor recenzji - Łukasz Szatkowski 
[…] These sorts of strategies are important in Science Fiction. SF aliens even in their most extreme form are usually animal in nature. There are a few exceptions: the living planet in Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris. And the microbial gods of of Ken MacLeod’s Engines of Light trilogy. SF Plant intelligences are essentially animals in plant suits. (See here.) Which is only marginally better than humans in alien suits.
It doesn’t have to be that way. […] ![Fringe: The Final Word on Mad Science [Video] | Science Fiction Research | Resources | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/HI5dxRGQIwU8DbguUHeVOjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
Fringe has spent four seasons dealing with the consequences of "playing God." We've learned all about Walter Bishop's past mistakes, and we've seen him placed alongside dozens of other misguided scientists, whose experiments have threatened... How to End International SF in Six Steps – A Mini-Manifesto by Fabio Fernandes
[...] 4. One of the reasons why International SF has the “international” in it is not just because it is from all over the world, but because it is so rare to see it in shelves of Anglo-American bookstores. Well, that should have ceased to be a problem for quite a while now, cause, see, we have thing called the webz. And the webz can be good. But, if the native English speaker must learn another language, the non-native English speaker (who, in most cases, can speak English to save her life, but that’s just it) should walk the extra mile and learn to write (or to translate) her stories to English. [...]
'Prometheus' writer Jon Spaihts on science fiction worldbuilding. via img.gawkerassets.com. We've been eagerly following Prometheus, the Ridley Scott space epic, so we're glad to see io9 give us a chat with its writer, Jon Spaihts.Know All That! |
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