Truth about movies and prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Quoth director Gilles Jacob about Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, “it was a question of a satirical tract that was awarded a prize more for the political than cinematographic reasons, no matter what the jury said.” Nah, really? And now we expect the jury to drop their politics this year? We are expected to believe that last year was an anolamy, perhaps brought about by the election year? I seriously doubt anything will change.
Author: Anders Monsen (Page 89 of 90)
Short stories online by Paul Tietjens over at Doctrinity. Via Sunni Maravillosa.
Fantasybookspot has an interview with John C. Wright. Not sure of the date, although the preface mentions The Last Guardian of Everness, which the mention was nominated for the Prometheus Award “last month.”
Meisha Merlin goes all out for Heinlein, aiming to publish
The Definitive Collection of Robert A. Heinlein. The project consists of forty-six titles spanning Heinlein’s entire career. I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent Vance Integral Edition, which published the definite Jack Vance? Via Reason Hit & Run via Boing Boing
A fascinating review from the New York Times of the new novel, Never Let Me Go, by noted Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro. Review forthcoming in the Summer issue of Prometheus, as the Spring issue was mailed to subscribers on April 5th.
The Libertarian Futurist Society posted the finalists for best novel and hall of fame awards.
Reason Magazine resident cartoonist, Peter Bagge, brings his own wacky art into a comic book, entitled Apocalypse Nerd. Serialized in six installments from Dark Horse Comics, Apocalypse Nerd also will feature a separate story on America’s Founding Fathers.
Bighead Press announces that the graphic novel version of L. Neil Smith’s The Probability Broach will ship at the end of November. Currently the book is set to ship only through Diamond and Laissez Faire Books. Books are due to arrive from the overseas printer on November 22nd.
L.E. Modesitt libertarian novel? An sf thriller with interesting perspective on privacy, comments by the reviewer over at scifi.com:
Sometime in the 2100s came the Collapse, when America’s ‘Commonocracy’ failed in chaos. Out of those ashes arose a new patchwork nation along what appear to me to be essentially libertarian lines: little government, free rein to businesses known as ‘multis,’ privacy laws that limit media snooping and a requirement that each individual citizen maintain his own security.
Although I had heard of Firefly, it flared all too briefly on television for me to catch an episode. Thousands of more observant eyes did catch some shows, were impressed, rave and wrote reviews. One such review is Claire Wolfe’s column on the show, which lasted a scant 14 episodes on Fox. Given the glut of reality TV, inane comedies, and multiple variations of lawyer,cop, and doctor shows, I am disappointed that I never saw Firefly. Still, there’s always the DVD…
