03 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Weird. Why can’t I buy any Ray Bradbury books on the Amazon Kindle store? Not a single one is listed, on either the USA or UK store. Does he despise ebooks? Or does he just have a lousy publisher these days?
Anyway, according to The Hollywood Reporter there’s a new planned cinema version of Dandelion Wine, with the 91 year-old Bradbury set to adapt the screenplay.
03 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in New books, Odd scratchings
Here come the silly prices for mint first-edition hardback copies of Lord Of Visible World: Autobiography In Letters, now that the book is out-of-print…
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Odd scratchings
Tried to watch Trollhunter. Gave up a third of the way in. Note to film-makers: use of a shaky handheld camera may get you a tick in the ‘Trendy’ box at film-school, but in the real-world half your audience is puking with sea-sickness after the first twenty minutes.
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
30 Friday Sep 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
William Hart’s excellent free reading of Lovecraft’s complete Fungi from Yuggoth. Blissfully music-free and FX-free.
30 Friday Sep 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts
The Whisperer in Darkness movie is set for its UK premiere in October.
28 Wednesday Sep 2011
Posted in Historical context, New books, Scholarly works
The two-volume I Am Providence, currently direct from Amazon with free shipping, for just $63. I doubt it’ll ever get much lower than this?
27 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Podcasts etc.
The 19th Sept 2011 SFF Audio Podcast #126 offers…
“a complete and unabridged reading of The Statement Of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft, read by Wayne June (from the Audio Realms collection The Dark Worlds Of H.P. Lovecraft – Volume 3), followed by a discussion of the story.”
26 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in Lovecraftian arts, Odd scratchings
I just found the Steampunk Writers & Artists Guild, which may be of interest to some readers here.
26 Monday Sep 2011
As if Iran wasn’t horrific enough, Lovecraft has been translated and is set to be published there…
“The book A Dark Lore including six phantasmagorical short stories by American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is converted into Persian by Arash Tahmasbi […] and will be released by Farhang Javid Publications.”
26 Monday Sep 2011
Posted in New books
Kim Wright muses on why so many contemporary literary fiction authors are prepared to dip their toe in writing genre fiction…
“Once upon a time, genre was treated as almost a different industry from literary fiction, ignored by critics, sneered at by literary writers, relegated by publishers to imprint ghettos. But the dirty little and not-particularly-well-kept secret was that […] these genre books were the ones who kept the entire operation in business. All those snobbish literary writers had better have hoped like hell that their publishers had enough genre moneymakers in house to finance the advance for their latest beautifully rendered and experimentally structured observation of upper class angst.”
“it’s not just a matter of writers flipping back and forth, it’s a matter of genre and literary cross-pollinating to produce a new species”
The first half of the reader comments are quite interesting, too — but then the “what counts as SF” genre-police bores arrive.
