America’s Science Decline, by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
This is not surprising, given the rise of entities like Fox News, the current incarnation of the Republican Party, or Harper’s conservatives. Facts, research, and statistics are now not only malleable or ignorable, they’re actually pitched as nefarious tools of liberal elites or whiny ‘special interest groups’ (re. people who care about social justice or the environment).
Harlan Ellison interviewed by Patton Oswalt
Hellboy Summer Camp
For kids aged 9-17 that are into nerdy awesome-ness: “Find out if you have what it takes to join an elite team of paranormal investigators combating the forces of darkness from all across the globe. We immerse you in tactical training of all forms, including survival skills in any environment (both earthly and non), martial arts and self-defense specific to praeternatural entities, hand to hand weaponry (we train foam swords, bows and more) and forensic investigation. All these key skills that every agent must have, plus you are steeped in the history of our Bureau and legacy of paranormal research.”
China Mieville to revive 'Dial H' for DC Comics
DC Comics has announced that China Mieville will be writing a re-boot of Dial H For Hero. Previously, DC had tasked Mieville with a new Swamp Thing series, but cancelled it before a single issue was printed. By all accounts, his Swamp Thing story arc was going to be epic and very political, so I’m pretty excited about Dial H.
Shit Wookies Say
Cat Women of the Moon
“Two-part [BBC Radio] programme exploring the popular motif in science fiction of an all-women society surviving without men. Presented by writer Sarah Hall.”
Fidel Castro's Reflections: The Best President For The United States (Is a Quantum Computing Robot)
“Isn’t it obvious that the worst possible thing is the absence from the White House of a robot capable of governing the United States so it can avoid a war that can end the life of our species?”
Baratheons are going to space
Socialist Irrealism: an interview with China Miéville
“I think there is something about the sublime, and the sense of the sublime as inhabiting the everyday, that may operate as a copula between a utopian or alterity-based tradition and the critique of the everyday. And the thing about the sublime is that you can see it from the hills you’re on and it’s blowing your fucking mind, you couldn’t possibly describe it and it’s beyond language, and that sense of the unrepresentable, that sense of awe. Awe is a word that in SF we have become embarrassed by and I say let’s rehabilitate it! Let’s have critically rigorous socialist awe, and the locus for that, I think, is a kind of radical quotidian sublime.”
Lee Hardcastle’s amazing claymation version of John Carpenter’s The Thing starring Pingu!
New Mieville coming on May 15th! I didn’t find his previous YA novel, Un Lun Dun, quite as gripping as his darker, grimmer stuff, but it was still a fun read. And heck, his other train-centric novel is one of my favourite books of all time. Can’t wait to crack open the new one.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Class Struggle: “Psycho is all about money—about deprivation, frustration, and the privilege of property. It is about those who work for a living and have nothing—and those who do not work and have everything.”
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