The classic 1969 short film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's eternally controversial horror tale:
For a film now over fifty years old it holds up exceptionally well. I think every college freshman English class in America shows this to its students. Sharp-eyed viewers will spot a very young Ed Begley Jr. in th...
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn has passed away
The sad news is going out at this hour that Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel-winning novelist who spent decades in exile from his homeland in the Soviet Union after describing the evils of its prison system, has died at the age of 89.Solzhenitsyn served as an officer in the Red Army during World War II (and I don't care what some people might say about it, but the Russian...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
"My God, it's full of stars!"
Arthur C. Clarke, the last of the original masters of science-fiction, has passed away at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka.Even if he had never written books like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama (along with everything else in his prolific career) he would have gone down in history as the man who came up with the concept of the communications satellite. That billions...
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Ruminations on the postcyberpunk era
Lawrence Person has published "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto" on Slashdot. I used to be a bigtime reader of cyberpunk science-fiction in the early Nineties (William Gibson's Neuromancer was my intro to "hard" sci-fi, though I later thought Heinlein was much harder :-) and Person's treatise is an intriguing look at how that genre has now given birth to what is being called "postcyberpunk". Deep, heady stuff to be sure. Probably not something...
