On this day in 2008, the Large Hadron Collider was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland, and proton beams circulated in the main ring.
Movies and Television:
A new live-action Peter Pan is coming to the small screen this fall. Allison Williams of GIRLS (and news anchor Brian Williams’ daughter) will continue the tradition of women who have played the spritely boy. Check out some of the first photos of Williams as Pan.
A new animated film, Hullabaloo, is being funded by IndieGoGo.
September 10th, 2014. Kate Lechler | World Wide Wednesday | 8 comments |
Tendeleo’s Story by Ian McDonald
Tendeleo’s Story is a short companion novel to Ian McDonald’s CHAGA series which is about an alien tropical plant-like life form that drops from space and lands in several equatorial regions of Earth. The first CHAGA novel, Evolution’s Shore, follows Irish reporter Gaby McAslin as she documents the biological, societal, and political changes that occur in Kenya as the Chaga descends from Mount Kilimanjaro and overruns Nairobi. In Kirinya,
September 10th, 2014. Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Ian McDonald | Audio | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Dr. Bloodmoney: Or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick
Based on the overwhelming success of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick set about writing another alternate history/future. Choosing the Cold War as its crux, he imagined a US wherein the post-WWII threat of nuclear catastrophe manifests itself. Dr. Bloodmoney: Or How We Got Along After the Bomb is the (conveniently sub-titled) result.
With only a few main elements in common with that first big success,
September 10th, 2014. Jesse Hudson´s rating: 3 | Philip K. Dick | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
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I don't know what kind of a writer he is, but Simon Raven got the best speculative-fiction-writing name ever!
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