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Tuesday, 2 April 2019

9 Writing Tips from Author Pamela S. Thibodeaux

Pamela S. Thibodeaux shares her writing advice with us...
Read more: https://zoemmccarthy.com/writing/9-writing-tips-from-author-pamela-s-thibodeaux?source=Snapzu

"The Comedian" Is Vintage Twilight Zone, But Not in the Way You'd Want

More so than series opener “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet,” the second episode of Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone reboot feels like a premise that could easily have existed in the show’s original run. Unfortunately, this is not a good thing. “The Comedian,” directed by Owen Harris—who, oddly enough, is responsible for the best episode of Black Mirror, “San Junipero”—is an unexpected reminder of what The Twilight Zone is like, and what it has always been like, when it’s not firing on all cylinders. It’s an overlong 54 minutes of streaming TV, grasping for gravitas while not possessing enough substance to fill half of its running time.
Read more: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/03/the-comedian-is-vintage-twilight-zone-but-not-in-t.html?source=Snapzu

Monday, 1 April 2019

Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay's The Doom of the Great City (1880)

Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory - Brett Beasley explores a piece of Victorian science fiction considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse.
Read more: https://publicdomainreview.org/2015/09/30/bad-air-pollution-sin-and-science-fiction/?source=Snapzu

What RUINED Hanna-Barbera?

1919: The year they cancelled the Stanley Cup

It's been 100 years since the only time a Stanley Cup series was cancelled after it began. Montreal and Seattle were tied at two wins each when many players were hospitalized due to the Spanish flu pandemic.
Read more: https://www.ctvnews.ca/sports/1919-the-year-they-cancelled-the-stanley-cup-1.4360036?source=Snapzu

The Mind-Bending Story of How 'The Matrix' Came to Be

ONE DAY IN 1992, Lawrence Mattis opened up his mail to find an unsolicited screenplay from two unknown writers. It was a dark, nasty, almost defiantly uncommercial tale of cannibalism and class warfare—the type of story that few execs in Hollywood would want to tell. Yet it was exactly the kind of movie Mattis was looking for.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/the-matrix-legacy-book-excerpt/?source=Snapzu

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Cast of ‘The Expanse’ visits Blue Origin’s space turf

Science fiction met space fact this week in the Seattle area when the cast of “The Expanse,” the science-fiction jewel in Amazon’s streaming-video crown, got a look at Blue Origin’s spaceship. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the common denominator in the meetup: He personally engineered the sci-fi series’ shift from SyFy to Prime Video, and announced it onstage at a space conference last May while I was sitting beside him. Bezos is also the founder of Blue Origin, the space venture that is testing its New Shepard suborbital spaceship and gearing up to build its orbital-class New Glenn rocket.
Read more: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/jeff-bezos-expanse-blue-origin-space/?source=Snapzu