Sequencing the Neanderthal genome was a winner (A Nobel prize for medicine winner) for Svante Paabo, the son of a previous Nobel prize winner.
Baen Books’ annual adventure story contest is open for submissions, closing February 1, 2023. See the article and the site for details.
File 770 shares the first Utopia Awards. Becky Chambers took one for A Psalm for the Wild-Built.
Entertainment Weekly has a long and rather touching article about the second Black Panther film,
October 5th, 2022. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | no comments |
Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1961, Peter Jackson is today known throughout the world as one of cinema’s foremost filmmakers; a triple threat in the fields of directing, producing and screenwriting. After a string of modestly budgeted early films, Jackson would, of course, begin to helm some of the priciest productions ever made, with his Lord of the Rings trilogy being budgeted at some $270 million, and King Kong at $200+ million. But in today’s Shocktober column, I would like to shine a light on two of Jackson’s earliest projects, the combined budgets of which probably totalled the one-week caterer’s bill for the Two Towers shoot.
October 5th, 2022. Sandy Ferber | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Oh...and the men used the name "The Great Northern Expedition" to throw people off as to their actual destination, even…
Oh, it IS, Marion! It is!
Sorry if I mislead you in this detail, Paul...the voyage by ship was only the first leg of the quintet's…
The geography is confusing me--how does one get to a village in Tibet by ship? And even the northernmost part…
Oh, this sounds interesting!