[E]very human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it's true ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished watching Netflix's 13-episode series Daredevil and I'm quite glad I did. It took advantage of the series length to do some... interesting... takes on tropes, some bordering on being literary. I think I'll do a couple of posts over the next few days to jot some down. These will, of necessity, contain spoilers for the series ( Read more... )

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The title is a serious question, sparked by my trying out the "Roguelike" game FTL and reading up on Sundog's Wikipedia entry after seawasp's mention.

Traveller, for those unfamiliar, started as an early tabletop role-playing game soon after the advent of D&D and I consider it one of the venerable ancestors of the industry. Set in a sprawling ( Read more... )

As reported all over the Internet, noted SF&F cover artist Darrell K.Sweet passed away yesterday. His art graced a great many favourite novels (link to Google Image search) including the "Thomas Covenant" and "Wheel of Time" series, and he will be sorely missed.

-- Steve

Iain M. Banks on the glories and pitfalls of non-genre authours tackling science fiction.

-- Steve thought he'd share.

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Well, I just saw the first episode of the "V"-make. It didn't outright suck ( Read more... )

This afternoon Microsoft's (formerly Bungie's) Frank O'Connor confirmed an announcement on the Richard Curtis Agency's web site that there will be a three-novel series set in the Halo universe's deep past to show more of the Forerunner's culture... written by the Hugo and Nebula award-winning authour Greg Bear -- Steve's very interested to see how ( Read more... )