Margaret Atwood apparently once again trotted out her line about her books not being science fiction because they don't have talking squids in outer space. I wish someone would ask her which particular SF books she's referring to.
Damn, what a disappointment S:AAB was. From the pilot episode with every possible war movie/Top Gun cliche to the elite fighter pilot one week, groundpounding grunt the next, wait we're pilots again silliness, not to mention some really weak lead actors... it should have been a lot better than it was, and it was anything but great.
Kevin J. Anderson's writing: blecch.
Prog rock, with rare exceptions: blecch.
Looks like a fine match.
Sure would be nice if I could see the last two videos instead of a message saying I can't see them in my country.
@johnrivers: I might feel more kindly towards Lyon and Hill if not for some of the other stuff that's been going on lately, like the Obverse Books affair.
That the forum is going away is a real shame. That Lyon is going away... maybe not so much.
@rek: Clearly Graeme meant "If you of always thought 'I wish that someone would make a television show out've Minority Report, only with soap stars replacing Tom Cruise,' then you may just be interested in new BBC series Paradox."
@Slovenly Muse: If only the Canadian network airing SNL had a website with online content from the show. Oh, wait, they do.
@Charlie Jane Anders: Well, that lets Solaris out, then. I'd call it one of the best SF movies of the last ten years, but I wouldn't call it space opera. And without any space battles, uniforms, adventures, captains, or heroes, I don't think the presence of a spaceship is enough.
"Adaptating"? WTF?
@NotArthurPDragon: Actually, as I recall, Marvel only had the rights to use stuff from the movie. They didn't have the rights to do anything from the TV series. When Marvel got the Trek rights again a few years ago, they got the rights to do everything, and they created the all-new Starfleet Academy comic series and the Pike-centric Early Voyages series in addition to doing stuff with TOS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager (Enterprise didn't exist yet).
@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H: The only problem with it is that it's all straight image scans, no OCR, so you can't search the text. Other than that, it's pretty much essential.
All that without mentioning the DVD-ROM that came out last year that has every Star Trek comic from 1967 to 2005 or so (well, aside from the X-Men crossovers)?
I'm going to guess that Asaro has less input into the cover art than she does into her musical collaborators. Yeah, it's Baen, but still...
BTW, did io9 do anything about The Church soundtracking Jeff VanderMeer's Shriek: An Afterword?
@SCROGGZILLA!!: I have the book and it's not a novelization, it's Kneale's script. Penguin also published the two previous Quatermass stories. Don't have those, alas....
@LiC: I didn't like Quantum Leap, so I didn't have much Bakula-watching experience. Even more than the theme song, even more than deciding not to include the words "Star Trek" in the series title for the first season or two, even more than the preadolescent notions of sexytime that permeated the show, Bakula was the biggest mistake the producers made. He could do petulant and he could do stiff. And that was it. Neither makes for a character worth watching.
I was home rather than at work that day -- sick, maybe. (I was 31 that year.)
I was flicking channels on TV and CNN was reporting that a dead body, not yet identified, had been found inside the Cobain home. I was hoping it wasn't actually him, but I didn't really expect that it would turn out to be someone else. I kept flicking back to the news channels every so often to see if there was any update. I don't think it took all that long before they confirmed it was him.
They weren't my favourite band, but I had two or three of the albums, and I liked that Kurt was always supporting less well-known bands and that he liked messing with the heads of homophobes and other schmucks. He seemed like the kind of person who would have a really interesting musical career, and not be content with churning out albums of the same old thing over and over. It's a shame that didn't happen.
Countodwn? Endless fanwank and amazingly dumb technobabble. Every time a character steps in to save the day at a key point (a starship captain, a Federation ambassador, a genius spacecraft designer, a Klingon general) it's one of the Next Generation regulars. A supernova that will destroy the galaxy (or the whole universe, depends which issue you're reading)... and it can only be stopped by using the magical substance, red matter. I could go on. I have elsewhere. But I'll spare you.
I'm glad Orci has refused to state whether Countdown should be counted as canon. The less the movie reflects what happens in this miniseries, the more I'll like it. ([trekmovie.com])
Has he ever had an idea of his own? Aside from being possibly the first person to swipe from both NIN and Alien Sex Fiend at the same time, that is.
Either Meco's disco Star Wars theme or Fleetwood Mac's "You Make Loving Fun." My sister got Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" around that time, but I probably played it a lot more than she did. I also listened to some of my parents' Elvis and Buddy Holly singles.
Find the guy who played Lovecraft in Out of Mind, the short film made for Canadian TV a few years back. For that matter, just watch Out of Mind and forget making a new movie.
(If you really want to see Lovecraft misused as a character, try reading Thomas Wheeler's utterly worthless novel The Arcanum, which is supposedly also being filmed.)
