Star Trek Inspirational Posters – of course he only did the original series.
(via chadu)
Category: Science Fiction and Fantasy
An interview in comic form with Richard Linklater, the director of A Scanner, darkly, a rotoscope “animated” film based on the Philip K. Dick novel.
I’ve recently been sticking my uncommented links in my antisocial bookmarking tool (it’s a social bookmarking tool, but with just one user!), but, well, no one reads that.
Nimrod Harel, fantasy writer (I had great fun reviewing his book) and mentalist is soliciting ideas for his TV show in the Ort Science Fiction and Fantasy forum. He’s looking for weird, uncanny and surreal stuff which mundane scriptwriters appear to be ill-equipped to come up with.
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Robert E. Howard
I got some RPGs this week from the Indie Press Revolution sale, so I got to read Dogs in the Vineyard on the train to and from word (Car problems), and I read the two first Sorcerer supplements. Sword and Sorcerer made me think of Conan, and thinking of Conan made me read the biography on the Robert E. Howard site. Interesting stuff.
When Howard was my age, he was dead for 7 years. How’s that for a sobering thought. Before committing suicide, he got to be a successful writer, taking that young angst and enthusiasm we would pour into roleplaying games or fan-fic or whatever and putting it into stories which will probably endure long after I am dead. He didn’t fret with editing or rewrites – except maybe that time when, you know, the magazine couldn’t go to press because the only copy of a story’s manuscript was with the cover artist, and he had to write the story again from scratch. He lived his stories, and I guess he had a lot of fun writing them.
Still, killed himself.
Of course, reading that sympathetic biography, you wonder if he didn’t quit while ahead.
Maybe you realize that if your life isn’t going to be Kings of the Night, it might as well be Worms of the Earth.
That’s enough with those touching episodes about the lonely Doctor abandoning a woman who loves him to grow old without him. Robots and monsters now, please.