Heres a one-page script treatment for the original Star Wars movie pitch, marked up to become a pitch for the first Harry Potter novel and/or movie. Hilarious send-up of mythical tropes that we seem to fall for every time. Joseph Campbell, eat your heart out. Found via Neatorama.
Summer is official blockbuster movie season, so Ive got my list together of what any dork worth his geek cred will be seeing over the next four months (either in theater, or via the magic of bittorrent). So, with the help of SFSignal, heres a list of the flicks Ill...
Come July, the Harry Potter literary trend is over, when the final book in the series is released. It would be a shame if all those budding readers--particularly science fiction fantasy readers--gave up books once the Potter wave crests. Our friends at SFSignal are set to do something about..
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Curious to see if this is an issue on work time and whether or not it is prohibited.short answer: yesFantasy sports sites are blocked by my organizations internet usage policy. Also blocked that is unusual is shopping. That was added to limit liability for identity theft issues.
Tabletop roleplaying + software architecture jokes = ultimate obscure geek humor, courtesy of xkcd. In a recent Asimovs magazine column, science fiction author, editor, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Norman Spinrad, asserts that "hard" science fiction is in a precipitous decline and heres why:"In a society where the distinction between astronomy and astrology is probably blurry in... I had to tell you all about two of my favorite things being brought together - D D and Monty Python! In this mornings email is a note from Paizo, the publisher of Dungeon and Dragon magazines. They have hidden 12 grails among the pages of their magazines and...
In my opinion, Fox either made an incredible mistake (or a marketing test) this weekend and it may kill auto racing aswe know it on TV.For years I rsquo;ve been hinting to my wife that NASCAR was little more than WWF on wheels, (I used to refer to NASCAR as televised...
If we assume that Iran's nuclear facilities must be attacked and damaged/destroyed to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons which facilities should be struck and what weapons would you recommend? Here is an article to get you started. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_IranStep 1: I wouldn't post my sneak-attack plans on the Internet!:pAttack.
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Author S. Andrew Swann has posited a discrete definition of science fiction as opposed to other genre work, like fantasy, superheroes and horror (found via SFSignal): "SF is SF because the author consciously or instinctively believes that the universe runs by predictable and knowable laws. In addition, the authors world,..
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Great answersGreat answers. I love seeing the various points of view people bring to this meme. Just the "Top X" questions alone are helpful in that point me to stuff I might not have heard of before - in this case Mad Scientists Club . Thanks for..
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I've enjoyed a few books on this basis, but I treated them as fantasy, because I cannot suspend my disbelief to accept the psuedo..
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Neil Gaiman has something of a reputation in geek circles, but ironically it has little to do with his Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel American Gods. Thats a shame, because setting aside Gaimans well earned acclaim as the writer of the exemplary fantasy comic series Sandman, American Gods is a...
In the Greek myth of Sisyphus as portrayed to us by Homer, Sisyphus was punished to eternally roll a huge rock up a hill only to have it roll to the bottom again, thereby showing the futility of mans existence.The interactions between management and contractors can be seen in this...
I have seen this kind of "film making" before, but this one is really well-crafted. If you have ever played an adventure or role-playing game, especially from the ancient era known as the 80s and 90s, then you will recognize the "game play" of this real life saga. Some people...
Thanks to my local science fiction book club, Ive been expanding my reading horizons over the last few months, and thus came across at least one book I would almost certainly have never chosen to read on my own: Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark, the first in the authors surprisingly...
In Part 6--Sequence, again you learned how to create a comic strip. The panels may be pretty basic on the surface, so lets shake things up a bit by turning the perspective around. Im not talking so much about crane views as close-ups and tension-building through action.If you watch your.
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