A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
John Self's review of Monsieur Monde Vanishes sparks a debate about which of Simenon's thousands of books to read next. Terry Teachout makes us wish we were in Chicago to see this revival of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (which introduced the...
ephemera (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Today, as I was surfing the Web, I came across an item about a woman who writes fan letters to authors. She mentioned writing to Ray Bradbury and John Cheever. And they responded. I wonder if anyone has made a...
Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Mad Men 2.10 began tonight with a mention of Ray Bradbury as an attraction for Paul in Pasadena and ended with the Tornados' 1962 instrumental hit "Telstar" playing on the plane as Don and Pete fly to Pasadena... And in between, let's see ... 1. Betty's father suffers a stroke and is starting to go senile, which prompts a visit from Betty and Don. They have to stay in the same bedroom for appearances,...
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Even though the books are done, we’re still a few weeks from shipping Ray Bradbury’s Summer Morning, Summer Night. For those not in the know, this collection was originally published by our friends at PS Publishing in an edition of only 100 copies and includes 27 stories and vignettes set in Bradbury’s fictive stomping ground, [...]
Download Unlimited TV Show Movies (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Summary Airs Next: CBS at Sunday 9:30 PM (30 min.) Status: Ended Premiered: October 2, 1955 Last Aired: June 1, 1962 Show Categories: Drama Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a mystery and suspense anthology hosted by the master of supsense Alfred Hitchcock. Each 30 minute episode included opening and closing vingettes featuring Hitchcock who would often explain some aspect of the day’s [...]
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Our shippers are just finishing up with John Scalzi’s Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, and will be packing up individual orders for Jim Butcher’s Backup over the weekend. We’ll post a fuller update in next week’s newsletter, but we just wanted to let you know that progress is being made, as we already have, [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Here's an exclusive look at the Introduction to Fast Forward 2 , the second book in the all-original science fiction anthology series edited by Lou Anders. The book is due in October 2008 from Pyr and features these 14 stories: " Catherine Drew " by Paul Cornell (read this online right now!) "Cyto Couture" by Kay Kenyon "The Sun Also Explodes" by Chris Nakashima-Brown "The Kindness of Strangers" by...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Science fiction is my bread and butter. I don’t read it as much anymore, but I grew up on that stuff. Kurt Vonnegut’s short stories and early novels, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury, The Big Three – Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein – those were the people who helped form my view of [...]
Verum Serum (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Someone I work with sent me a link to a blog they frequent. The blog posted a Youtube video of a news story related to a parent who is attempting to ban the Ray Bradbury novel, “Farenheit 451.” Here you go: You Tube Clip I am not linking to the blog because, quite honestly, I don’t really [...]
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Our shippers are just getting the last copies of Tim Powers’ Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather into the mail to customers and book dealers. They spent the weekend catching up on some distributor orders and are just starting in on John Scalzi’s Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded. As soon as the Scalzi has [...]
Fanboy.com (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
History doesn't repeat but sometimes it rhymes: The last time there was a total financial meltdown it was a good era for fanboys, in fact the 1930s was pretty much the birthplace of modern fandom itself. Here are my...
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The new books are still lining up on the tarmac at the SubPress shipping facilities. We’re still shipping copies of Tim Powers Fisher King Trilogy (Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather), and today we’re due to pick up the collected wit and wisdom of John Scalzi (a thicker volume than you might reasonably expect — [...]
Stoat (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
I felt sure that I'd used this as a title before. But google assures me that no-one has used the phrase , which I fund rather hard to believe. Maybe I can copyright it. Its a useful phrase. I'm sure I remember it in the context of a Ray Bradbury story. Aha! . It has been used in books, 4 times says google. Well its all bad news , linked to widow-burning. I'm not complaining about anything as bad as...
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Moby Dick is set at Universal to be helmed by Timur Bekmambetov, who directed Wanted. They tapped Adam Cooper and Bill Collage (Accepted) to scribe. They're moving away from the whole Ishmael narration thing so they can "depict the whale's decimation of other ships prior to its encounter with Ahab's Pequod, and Ahab [...]
