I was to write about the Expanse (and other new Syfy series) but I just read Rhianna Pratchett's obituary for her father and the screen is a little blurry. If you didn't read it go now. Space battles can wait till tomorrow.

And in the background +GNU Terry Pratchett keeps being sent.

Back home the heat wave is just ending (36C!) and school begins and I'm making an aggregation post again.

There were some good news today. Syfy just announced that both Dark Matter and Killjoys are getting renewed for another season. And The Dome is finally being put out of its misery.

And Tatiana Maslany is being linked to another Star Wars ( Read more... )

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TERRY PRATCHETT IS DEAD.

- JAK SIĘ NA­ZYWA TO UCZU­CIE W GŁOWIE, UCZU­CIE TĘSKNE­GO ŻALU, ŻE RZECZY SĄ TA­KIE, JA­KIE NAJ­WY­RAŹNIEJ SĄ?
- Chy­ba smu­tek, pa­nie. A teraz...
- JES­TEM ZASMUTKOWANY.

I'm sorry about the quote being in Polish but it means more in Polish

The new, non-Malazan, sf book by Steven Erikson has publishing date. The Willful Child is coming out on 25th of September in UK and about two weeks later in US and it tells the whole truth about

These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to ( Read more... )

These hoopy froods on ISS know how where their towel is:

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Terry Pratchett has Alzheimers and the realities of it are inescapable. He has sight problems and is no longer able to type but he writes books using dictation program. Of course he is popular and rich and gets all the best care and his kind of work lets him still be able to create. He still publishes books. He still tours and meets with fans. ( Read more... )

There was no Fringe today so I found myself something else to watch.

Yesterday the winners of this year's Dance Your PhD Competition have been announced and you can watch their entries on the Science site. The prizes were given in four fields: physics, biology, chemistry and social sciences. I have to agree with picking the physics one for the ( Read more... )

Some Australians are working on adapting Terry Pratchett's Troll Bridge. They've been working on it for a while and even got PTerry involved but they need some extra money to finish the project. They are trying to raise the funds over at Kickstarter and they show some things they've already done. And I think Cohen is perfect, don't you?

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I've seen Hogfather and I really liked it. I've seen Going Postal and it was good. i still haven't managed to make myself watch The Colour of Magic.

Still I felt that they suffered from omitting to many details that make those stories so good so I was excited to read today on Discworld Monthly Extra that The Watch TV series is being developed:
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