Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Mine Ears Have Heard The Awesome

Shiffer thinks he’s found the awesomest trailer ever. Now, on Friday, I might have agreed with him (I saw it here), but then on Saturday, while listening to Escape Pod, I heard a trailer that is to Awesome as Protonium is to mundane matter.

In a world where CONCEPT Is KING, ONE MAN, armed with only a PODCAST, can take on the titans of Hollywood, and beat Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez at their own game. That man… is Scott Sigler.

Hmmph. And if all the links confuse you, I meant listen to this.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Worldcon Scandal

Via Matt Rossi, I learned that there’s some new Harlan Ellison scandal – looking it up in Wikipedia, it turns out that at the Hugo award ceremony, Ellison groped Connie Willis’ breast. Apparently, there is an unsatisfactory public apology and also video.

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Roleplaying Science Fiction and Fantasy

Daydream the Lexicon

Remember my whine about a Lexicon? Well, Boojie is masterminded the daydream project, a shared universe thats being built as we speak, and which will include original fiction, roleplaying games, and a no-minimum-contribution Lexicon. So, if you commented on my whine saying you want to play – Ruthie, Ori, Itamar, I’m looking at you – go join up!

PS: speaking of Lexicons, here’s a new Paranoia Lexicon that sounds like an interesting idea.

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Oddities Science Fiction and Fantasy

Mama Chimera

ABC News: She’s Her Own Twin describes the medical mystery of two women who don’t match their kids’ DNA:

Lydia Fairchild was a proud mother who faced the most unusual of challenges. She had to fight in court to prove the children born from her body were her own. “I knew that I carried them, and I knew that I delivered them. There was no doubt in my mind,” Fairchild said.

The solution to this – the women are chimeras, mixing cells from two gentically distinct embryos – is something so damn cool it just begs for someone to incorportate it into a science fiction story, technothriller or mystery. Except it’s so damn outlandish, I expect serious problems with suspension of disbelief if you try and work it into a realistic scenario; better to go for sense of wonder.

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Resources Science Fiction and Fantasy

A Primeval Tide of Toxins (LA Times)

This is a couple of weeks old, but well-worth reading. From the Los Angeles Times: A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This ‘rise of slime,’ as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people.

[via jwz ]