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Miranda July's new movie, The Future, plays with time obsessively and weirdly. Just the title hints at a battle against the sneakiness of time, creeping up on you. And in the film, time seems treacherous as well as unpredictable. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5827219&view=rss&microfeed=true "I believe that the greatest danger to genre fiction nowadays is not the denial of respect from some notional group of literary tastemakers but the very real likelihood that sf/f may become respectable. Those who thirst for the foamy gray poison of respectability should consider the fate of jazz, once a popular medium, now respectable, ossified and ignored." — James Enge, quoted by Lou Anders, Bowing To The Future More »
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Richard K. Morgan burst on the literary scene six short years ago with the publication of the futuristic noir mystery Altered Carbon, a book that nabbed that year's Philip K. Dick Award and immediately sold to Hollywood. Since then, the prolific British author has written two sequels and two stand-alone novels featuring a blistering critique of capitalism and an America that has become Jesusland. We recently had a chance to interview Morgan, and below you can catch him sounding off about his advice for young writers, his view of the America he depicts in his novels, and squabbling within the scifi genre. More »
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It's nice to bring out a shiny new edition of a SF classic, as St. Martin's Press will of Joe Haldeman's 1974 smash The Forever War next March. Before the re-debut and related fanfare can happen, though, NYTimes reporter and title-ruiner Dexter Filkins had the temerity to release his own spirited take on the global war on terror and give it that same catchy title. When it appeared on the cover of The New York Times Book Review earlier this month, the news caused Haldeman to explode on his SFF.net blog, "Looks like a good book. I wish they'd come up with their own fucking title." Equally chagrined, one of his SFF.net homies - NASA employee and talented SF writer in his own right Geoffrey Landis - had his friend's back, and fired off an angry letter to the Times over the weekend. Is this the literary equivalent of Tupac and Biggie? [Joe Haldeman on SFFNet] More »
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Most science fiction movies make jumping to other star systems look as easy as stepping out for a bagel. But scientists think it'll never be that easy. So science fiction author Geoff Ryman (Air) invented a new school of writing called Mundane Science Fiction, which avoids faster-than-light travel, time travel or parallel universes. Why is he such a buzzkill? We asked him. More »
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