April 04, 2005
Cornucopia of SF
Natural Magick (Magiae naturalis) by John Baptist Porta. Transcribed from 1658 English Edition, Printed for Thomas Young and Samual Speed, at the Three Pigeons, and at the Angel in St Paul's Church-yard: "Wherein are searched out the causes of things which produce wonderful effects." From housekeeping to Alchemy (via Bibi).
Chile: An Alleged Non-Human Caught On Film from Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology (via BoingBoing). Pretty damn persuasive.
Exegesis: Philip K. Dick's unpublished writing online (via growabrain).
EarthCore, apparently the world's first podcast-only novel, "a cross between episodic modern-action fare like 24 and classic sci-fi movies like Predator and Starship Troopers." Starship Troopers?? (also via BoingBoing).
Blind Shrike, a novel by Richard Kadrey, can be downloaded under a Creative Commons licence (again with the BoingBoing).
Horror Masters. Lots of classics available for download; I used some of them for my Writing by Women class. Caveat: files will not print. But lots of stuff unavailable elsewhere.
On a similar theme: "Ladies of the Darkness: Trows, Rusalki, Vampires, and White Ladies of Literature and Folklore" by Lezlie Kinyon, Internet Review of Science Fiction (registration required).
The Periodic Table of Comic Books (via Life in the Present).
Basil Gogos, who gave the Creature from the Black Lagoon, left, his beautiful glow (also via Life in the Present).
Nominations for the Bram Stoker Awards at Locus Online. Hey, Shaun of the Dead is up for best screenplay. As is Dawn of the Dead; what a conundrum. Maybe Hellboy will sneak up the middle.
File under, there was a time this would have made me happy: a second X-Files film may be in the offing.
Or just download Nosferatu. You know you want to (also from Bibi).
In other film news: Disney takes up the white man's burden (heads up from Nalo Hopkinson):
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — The tourism minister on Tuesday defended plans for an upcoming Disney movie expected to portray Dominica’s Carib Indians as cannibals, calling the film a work of fiction that could bring economic benefits to the poor island. ... Tourism Minister Charles Savarin called the criticism unwarranted. "Nobody is saying that (the film) is an accurate historical report of what happened in Dominica," Savarin said in a statement broadcast by private Kairi FM radio. "We have to get beyond our history and not continue trying to live in the past." (from Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink).
Loads of sf links from Locus Online (thanks, Matthew) and Listology.
Scribbled at April 4, 2005 08:07 PM AST | Hmmm? (3) | TrackBack (0) | Link Cosmos | More? c17th, films/tv, sfHey thanks for posting the mention of EarthCore! Everyone stop by the site, www.scottsigler.net/earthcore, and while you're there vote for the free podcast novel at Podcast Alley: all you have to do is use the vote link in the upper right-hand corner.
Scribbled by Scott Sigler at April 6, 2005 06:26 PM | PermalinkEvery day, so many great links.. overwhelmed... pleasure overload. BTW - Sin City was excellent and well worth seeing at opening night late show packed tight with all the fellow freaks n' geeks. The audience here looked as though it had stepped out of the movie itself, Purple Rose of Cairo style [with Purple Rose Of Cairo being the first 'Matrix' movie of course... during that odd but short phase when the Machines thought Woody Allen was "clever"].
Scribbled by Rachel at April 7, 2005 11:06 AM | PermalinkI doubt the crowd here in SJ is up to that standard, but you never know.
I hadn't thought of The Purple Rose of Cairo in just that way, but you are right.
Scribbled by mj at April 7, 2005 11:20 AM | Permalinkhttp://webteam.unb.ca/cgi-bin/MT-2.21/mt-tb.cgi/1495
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