In November, I mentioned Anders’ Sandberg’s campaign for Aberrant,Bulk and Surface, and he commented just you wait until I can reveal what lurks in the GM section
. Well, I checked it now and the GM section is online. Gosh. Hard SF Cosmic Horror, like HP Lovecraft filtered through Gregory Benford. I wish I’d seen this back when I was running Kings of Space…
Uncle Bear’s Genre Fonts: fonts from SF/F Movies and TV, or from RPGs, or just of general use to RPG gamers and SF fans. Including such exotic scripts as Klingon and Hebrew…
Bah. How hard is it to find instructions for downloading drupal from CVS? Harder than I’d think.
Two random links from LinkMachineGo, really:
I’ve heard Ian Watson’s account of working with Stanley Kubrick, so there’s something not very surprising about how the remains of a lifetime of working like that might look, as described by this article: The Guardian – Citizen Kubrick
"OK," I say. "I understand how you might do this for Napoleon, but what about, say, The Shining?"
"Somewhere
here," says Tony, "is just about every ghost book ever written, and
there’ll be a box containing photographs of the exteriors of maybe
every mountain hotel in the world."There is a silence.
"Tony," I say, "can I look through the boxes?"
And elsewhere, Neil Gaiman posts Alan Moore’s obituary for Julius Schwartz:
He ruined my reputation as a gentle pacifist by claiming that I’d seized him by the throat and sworn to kill him if he didn’t let me write his final episodes of Superman, and how, now, am I supposed to contradict a classic Julius Schwartz yarn? So, all right: it’s true. I picked him up and shook him like a British nanny, and I hope wherever he is now, he’s satisfied by this shamefaced confession.
Disused Stations on London’s Underground – Cool places for fight scenes! [ from boingboing ].
And since New York is a more common setting for fight scenes than London, here’s a huge site about the New York Subway.