This week’s word for Wednesday I lifted entirely from a Haggard Hawks tweet: SPREZZATURA is deliberate nonchalance, or the act of making something difficult look effortless.
Awards:
The Israeli Society for Fantasy and Science Fiction has announced its 2016 Geffen winners.
The Baen Memorial Contest is open for fiction about near-future space exploration. The deadline for submissions is February, 2017.
(Thanks to Locus Magazine for both items.)
Books and Writing:
October 26th, 2016. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 7 comments |
If you’ve seen any buzz about author/illustrator Brom’s newest novel, Lost Gods (2016), in which the words “Dante” or “Inferno” are heavily featured, I’d advise you to read that buzz with a pinch of salt; to rely on the similarities between Lost Gods and Inferno is to neglect the breadth and depth of Brom’s creativity and imagination, and I would sorely hate to see this level of world-building and inspiration reduced to the bare-bones concept of “guy goes to Hell” when there’s so much more presented here.
October 26th, 2016. Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Gerald Brom | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
The Blood Drinkers (Blood Is the Color of Night) directed by Gerardo de Leon
Though he had started his career as a medical doctor, Gerardo de Leon went on to become not only a movie director, but the most awarded director in the history of the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (seven awards, in all). He helmed film projects in many different genres, but this viewer had, until recently, only been familiar with three of his pictures, all in the horror category. His 1959 effort Terror Is a Man,
October 26th, 2016. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
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