Archive for September, 2008

This comes under the banner of the truly ironic. I read in the Sydney Morning Herald today that more than 140 people have been trampled to death in a stampede in Jodhpur in western India. The people were Hindus on a pilgrimage to the 15th-century Chamunda Devi temple. There was a long, narrow passage...
Read more »

The final episode of VFoS is up on the Serial Novella page now. It all started back on February 24th and now it’s over – thirty four (almost) weekly episodes. Today sees a bumper double episode as I’ve posted the short Epilogue and Episode 34 together. What will I post on Mondays now? I’ll...
Read more »

Apparently Will Smith and others are dreaming up a prequel to the awful movie version of I Am Legend. The 1954 book by Richard Matheson is one of my all-time favourites. It’s a great mix of horror and sci-fi in the old school style and it’s a truly great story. The reason for the...
Read more »

I remember first seeing The Evil Dead so many years ago and thinking it was awesome. I recently came across a DVD for sale that touted itself as the Ultimate Edition. It has two discs, with loads of extras and all sorts of goodies. I haven’t got around to checking out all the extras...
Read more »

I can’t help but love William Shatner. This is the man that brought us Captain James T Kirk, T J Hooker and Denny Crane, not to mention numerous sci-fi novels. What a brilliant CV – and that’s only a small part of it. However, it will always be Captain Kirk that Shatner is most...
Read more »

Today sees the penultimate episode of VFoS posted on the Serial Novella page. Things are drawing to a climax and Ghost is not really able to do much about it, even after all the effort he’s put in so far. But just what exactly is happening? The last episode, along with a short epilogue...
Read more »

You may remember back in mid-August I was writing about my concerns with the new Watchmen movie that Zack Snyder is hatching in Hollywood. As I mentioned in that post, Watchmen author Alan Moore has distanced himself from all his projects that have been adapted to film and often talks of his absolute hatred...
Read more »

I read this post over at SF Signal today and it really piqued my interest. Aside from all the potential time paradoxes that inevitably crop up as soon as we think about time travel, it’s a fascinating concept. And of course, only going forward in time doesn’t trigger anything like the potential paradoxes of...
Read more »

(A bit of SF/F news shamelessly lifted directly from Horrorscope) Dreaming The Marque Hotel, October 3 to 6 www.conflux.org.au
Read more »

Black is a new magazine from Brimstone Press that bills itself as Australian Dark Culture. Right then, so far it appears to be right up my alley. The first issue came out in July and issue two is due in September, so it would seem to be a quarterly. I know I’m a bit...
Read more »