Conventions:
Tad Daley shared some more WorldCon pictures on File 770.
Some self-promotion; I’ll be attending AtomaCon in November. It’s a cozy South Carolina convention. I’m not a guest, just a participant, but look forward to meeting any FanLit fans who might attend.
Awards:
Gollancz and Ben Aaronovitch are sponsoring a fiction contest open to Black, Asian and minority ethnic writers in Britain. (The British term is BAME.) This sounds like an excellent contest and a very good idea.
October 2nd, 2019. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 3 comments |
Nick Chen is an IT guy on a mission: when quantum computers become available to consumers, he tries to convince the managers at the Babylon Hotel and Casino where he works to shut down their keno lounge, knowing that quantum computers can quickly crack the random-number generators of the keno game system. When he fails to persuade them, he uses his override passwords to shut down the keno game, which quickly gets the attention of Edwin Rutledge, the head of the casino. Eventually convinced by Chen’s arguments, Rutledge authorizes Chen to buy the casino its own quantum computer for $300,000 (“We fight quantum with quantum”).
October 2nd, 2019. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 2.5 | Andy Weir | Short Fiction, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
The Head directed by Victor Trivas
No, this isn’t the psychedelic Monkees movie from 1968; that one’s just called Head. Rather, The Head is a West German horror production from 1959 – and a very good one, as it turns out – that tells a freaky story of a wholly different kind. As The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film so astutely reminds us, the film was released in the same year as the similarly themed American film The Brain That Wouldn’t Die,
October 2nd, 2019. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff
THE RED ABBEY CHRONICLES by Maria Turtschaninoff is a young adult trilogy originally published in Finland. This first installment, Maresi (2014), won the Finlandia Junior Prize for children’s and young adult literature. It was translated into English by A.A. Prime.
The Red Abbey is an isolated island convent where a Mother Goddess is worshipped and a trove of secret knowledge maintained. No man is allowed to set foot on its shores. Some of its sisters were sent there because they were surplus mouths to feed,
October 1st, 2019. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Maria Turtschaninoff | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Death Curse of Tartu directed by William Grefe
I see it every time I fly down to Ft. Lauderdale to visit my family: the dividing line between civilization and the primeval. As the plane banks west from over the Atlantic, one can view below the sprawling metropolis of the city and its suburbs … until one’s eye hits that dividing line. The line is drawn straight as a rule for as far as the eye can see, the line separating the habitations of Man from the greenish-gray expanse that is the Everglades. The demarcation never fails to impress,
October 1st, 2019. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
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Gentlemen, I concur! (Forgive me for jumping into your convo)
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I've thought about picking that one up. The artwork looks perfect.