Flick Bits: Tad Williams’ Otherland + Warner Bros. = Feature Film (Your Thoughts?)

If you haven’t heard already, Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to Tad Williams’ science fiction series (Otherland).  From Variety: Warner Bros. is heading to “Otherland,” acquiring feature rights to Tad Williams’ sci-fi book series and setting it up with Dan Lin to produce. Studio has tapped John Scott III to script the film, based […]

China Miéville and the Arresting Image by Curtis Hox (Guest Post and Giveaway)

What is it about China Miéville that makes him so good? Among other things: language, brothers and sisters, language. A recent article in The Guardian states, “Miéville has always worn his influences on his sleeve – Lovecraft, Peake, classic and new wave SF, fantasy, comics and the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing games he played as […]

Episode 83 — An Interview w/ James L. Sutter (a.k.a. the Soul Man)

http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow83seasonThree–AnInterviewWJamesL.Sutter/Sandf–Episode83–InterviewWJamesLSutter.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSJames L. Sutter, author and editor at Paizo, joins us for a brilliant discussion about media tie-in fiction, Middle Eastern settings, the after life, atheism/theism in […]

Torture Cinema Poll #8: Pick Our 2nd 2012 Movie

I don’t think it’s necessary to remind you how much we hate you all for not picking Jumper.  But I guess there’s not much we can do about that.  You people seem to love it when we watch the truly awful and offensive… So here’s the next poll: Notice the new addition.  If you pick […]

Episode 82 (Season Three) — Torture Cinema Meets Twilight

http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.archive.org/download/TheSkiffyAndFantyShow2seasonThree–TortureCinemaMeetsTwilight/Sandf–Episode2–TortureCinemaMeetsTwilight.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Stitcher | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSOur second episode of the third season is finally here.  I say that knowing it’s only been a few days since the last episode went live. […]

China Mieville to Write Comic for DC Comics!

Word comes from the grand bats themselves (i.e., DC Comics) that China Mieville, author of Perdido Street Station, Embassytown, and the upcoming Railsea, will pen a comic book to be released as part of DC’s “New 52″/”Second Wave” comic “line.”  What will Mieville be doing?  This: DIAL H – Writer: China Miéville. Artist: Mateus Santoluoco. […]