7 Far Out Fantastic Sci Fi and Fantasy Finds

I've been trying to dedicate the weekend to finishing revising my current short story because I plan to include it in my upcoming book of fiction, The Hidden. And can you believe I haven’t even touched the story in all day and it’s already past 10 in the evening? That’s because life in this country is run by an institution that has little concern for the artist as much as he/she is trying to make money off of their work. The institution: the economy. So I’ve been trying to meet that institution’s inevitable demands. And because I’m trying to squeese dedication to my short story into this weekend, I decided to take it a little easy with this week's post and give you some . . .

Far Out Fantastic Finds

1) “io9 Newsstand: Speculative Fiction Is All AboutKeeping It Real (and Sometimes Surreal)"

2) Boise Public Library's Comic Con

A public library in Boise, Idaho had their annual comic book convention today! One of few public libraries to have a comic convention. This is another great example of how comic books are becoming more accepted into the literary canon!

3) Emerian Rich's Pod Cast Novel Artistic License

The founder of the horror pod cast series, HorrorAddicts, has a novel out on podcast. It sounds like a phantastic one since it involves a woman who can paint things that come to life and a house with plenty of haunts. I haven't had a chance to listen to it myself but I definitely plan to. So check it out!

A kneeling young woman painting butterflies in mid air.

The podcast version of Emerian Rich's upcoming novel, Artistic License.
Photo credit: Emerian Rich/Masloski Carmen

4) “Lovecraft's racism a tough issue at Necronomicon”

It might shock some of you to find out where this Con was held at. But knowing Lovecraft's racist manner of thinking, maybe it's not too shocking. I'd like to eventually do an entire post on this one. So look out for that but, in the meantime, check this article out.

5) “All the Most Thrilling Science Fiction andFantasy Books Coming This Fall”

This fall? I'm still trying to finish up the summer! But I can't say that there's that tinge of looking forward to the dark season, as I call it. One of my favorite hallowdays fall within it. But until then check out the sneak peaks of these heavy books, including Stephen King's Bazaar of Bad Dreams! Now I dig that title, totally! Speaking about bazaars, check out my bizarre bazaar story in my collection, TheFool's Illusion.

6) “Ridley Scott is Working on Prometheus 2 RightAfter The Martian”

7) And check out this out'a sight ray punk site, called Raypunk.org. Unfortunately, as interesting as its articles are, it hasn't been updated since 2013. But with so little out there on atom punk which is a next door neighbor in alternative history to ray punk, it's worth checking out.

Until next time . . .

Book-To-Movie: Stephen King’s 'The Raft'

Credit: Pixabay.com It's the third Saturday of the month and so that means it's time for another Book-To-Movie ! In a Book-To-Movie we review a book and its movie adaptation. One of the reasons I as a horror fan don’t read a lot of Stephen King’s work is because most of it consists of novels that go more than 400 pages. I have a short attention span when it comes to reading, ironically since I consider myself an avid reader, and so I normally won’t read a work that is much more than the equivalent to a 350-page mass market paperback. The other reason why I don’t read a lot of King’s work is that, as literary scholars will tell you, a lot of his writing is poor. However, he does have some good writing in his works, especially his earlier stuff, including his short horror tales. So if I read anything by Stephen King it’s usually his short stories or novellas. One of his collections I’ve read is Skeleton Crew which includes some of his good, or at least...

Book-To-Movie: Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat'

Credit: Wikimedia Commons It's another fourth Monday of the month and so that means it's time for another Book-To-Movie review! In a Book-To-Movie (BTM), we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. A few years back, we had a BTM for Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" and its movie adaptation. However, the movie we reviewed was actually a segment in Roger Corman’s anthology film, "Tales of Terror", which features three of Poe's short stories, including "Black Cat". And I'll tell you now, I liked that version far more than the version that we're going to review today which is the 1934 Universal adaptation starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. I like Corman's version better mostly because it stays more faithful to the original short story than Universal's does. However, even though Universal's "Black Cat", directed by Edgar Ulmer, strays (excuse the pun) far from Poe's short stor...

Book-To-Movie: ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth’

Both the 1959 and the 2008 movies based on Jules Verne's novel, "Journey to the Center of the Earth", feature terrifying monsters such as the ones here in this illustration from an early edition of the book. Credit: Édouard Riou/ Wikimedia Commons Warning: This review may contain spoilers. As I said last post , I’ve postponed the month’s Book-To-Movie review from last week to this week. For those of you who are just tuning into this blog, a Book-To-Movie is when we review a work of prose fiction and its movie adaptation. And this weekend’s review is of Jules Verne’s novel, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and its movie adaptations. There have been several movies based on this novel that was originally published in Paris in 1864 (as “Voyage au Centre de la Terre”). However, most of them have been either made for TV or video. Because I believe movies are best when made for the big screen, I am going to review the theatrical films in which there have been two: the 195...

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