A number of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ series intersect with one another, as well as with a few other books; so how do you know what order to read them in? You go here.
Tag Archives | Science Fiction
Missed It By Just One Planet
As Burroughs readers will recognise (though you don’t need to be a Burroughs reader to spot two moons too many for Venus), this Frazetta scene is supposed to illustrate one of Burroughs’ Mars stories, not this Venus story:
On the other hand, the following scene, clearly intended for one of Burroughs’ Venus stories, is being used to illustrate Poloda instead:
And the low-hanging stone moon in the background indicates that this scene is actually supposed to be Pellucidar, not Caspak:
I’m just sayin’.
The Girl With the Xeroxed Tattoo
Warner Bros. is “ditching its drama pilot about a crime-solving girl hacker who teams up with a male police detective,” because Sony Pictures is “threatening legal action over similarities” with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Attempts to decrease the similarities by “turning the white male cop into a black female lawyer and giving the loner hacker a boyfriend” apparently weren’t good enough, because “the series is based around [sic] a hacker.”
Wtf? Sony claims ownership of the mere concept of having a hacker as a main character?
Or is it just that it’s a female hacker? Maybe DC comics should be suing Sony then.
In related news, the Moffat-Vertue axis is still sabre-rattling against CBS for daring to imitate the idea of an updated Sherlock Holmes series.
Now I love the hell out of Sherlock, and I doubt that CBS’s effort will even remotely measure up. But before the BBC folks decide to resort to violence over this, they might remember that the idea of Holmes-in-the-present-day is not exactly one they invented.
R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie
Details here.
Reverse the Jelly Baby
In his most recent TARDIS Eruditorum entry, Philip Sandifer gives the best defense I’ve seen of the NuWho sonic screwdriver, and his readers in the comments section respond with the best critique I’ve seen.
There Will Be Chrome
So it’s been about a year and a half since the announcement of Blood and Chrome, a story that would take place between Caprica and Battlestar Galactica, and which would feature a young Bill Adama during the first Cylon war.
Since then, Blood and Chrome’s announced status has shifted back and forth among three possibilities: being a pilot for a new series, being a standalone tv-movie, and being a sequence of online webisodes. The only two definite things we’ve known about it are a) that filming has been completed, and b) that no release date has been announced.
Well, it’s still the case that no release date has been announced; and we still don’t know whether to expect a series, a standalone tv-movie, or a mere congeries of webisodes. But we do know, now, that Bear McCreary, the composer for BSG, has just finished the score for Blood and Chrome. (See here and here.) So that means the project is still a go; and if music is indeed typically “the final piece to be added to a television production,” i.e. after special effects etc., there’s some reason to think we might see it reasonably soon.
In related news, a BSG theatrical movie is also still in the works. This is reportedly yet another reboot, following the continuity of neither the 1978 nor the 2004 series.