A heads-up for Sandman fans – Gaiman’s version of Death features prominently in the current issue of Madame Xanadu.
Tag Archives | Science Fiction
Happy Trailers To You
There’s a new preview up of Galactica’s final season.
There’s also a new version of the recent Star Trek trailer. This one’s almost exactly the same as the previous one, except the scene order is a bit different and it has Nimoy in it. (Prepare for glacial loading slowness.)
Core Curriculum
As Firefly/Serenity fans will recall, sometimes it sounded as though the show was all taking place within a single solar system, while at other times there was loose talk about “the galaxy.” Yet the number of colonised planets always seemed too high for a merely solar-system-spanning Alliance – and of course absurdly too low for a galaxy-spanning Alliance.
Well, we now have an official map of the Firefly/Serenity ’verse (conical hat tip to AICN) that answers the puzzle once and for all. (Be sure to click on all three pics, as well as reading the text toward the bottom of the page.) It looks like there are five inhabited systems in the ’verse – and the “Core” is neither the center of the solar system nor the galactic core, but a “core” system around which the other four systems orbit. (Is that scientifically possible? Don’t ask me, I’m not Mister Science Guy.)
Kevin Smith Laughed
FWIW: In the first issue of Kevin Smith’s Batman: Cacophony, on stands this week, Deadshot finds the Joker reading a copy of The Fountainhead. Joker finds it boring, while Deadshot says it’s one of his favourites.
Moral: contract killers like Ayn Rand more than psychopathic clowns do. I guess that makes sense, actually. Still, you’d think the Joker would at least appreciate the first line.
The Face on the Barsoom Floor
Check out the latest update on the upcoming John Carter of Mars movie.
Man, I’d really like to see them do this right; but I’m a bit worried that the guy who’s going to write and direct it has so far been involved only with animated films (albeit really good ones) aimed primarily (though of course not solely) at fairly young audiences. Still, he seems to be saying the right things. Keeping my fingers crossed – all twenty of them ….
Addendum:
Okay, I just read this related story and now I’m more worried. The Frazetta approach is “stale”? Grrr ….
Ere Your Pulse Twice Beat, Act II
That report [that the Forbidden Planet script JMS is writing is going to be a) a sequel, and b) stylistically retro] is totally incorrect. It’s not going to be retro, and it’s not going to be a continuation. When Altair 4 blows up, it blows up.