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Nov. 15th, 2011
I can't find the right music video now
Nov. 15th, 2011 06:32 amBut I saw some bit of physical business in one of them that made me wonder if Lily Allen could have carried off playing a live-action Tintin.
(Everyone calls Tintin a boy in the comics but I don't think there's much real evidence one way or the other. I'd pull a Hilary Tamar on the dialogue and leave that aspect of the character open to question)
(Everyone calls Tintin a boy in the comics but I don't think there's much real evidence one way or the other. I'd pull a Hilary Tamar on the dialogue and leave that aspect of the character open to question)
Calibration needed
Nov. 15th, 2011 04:20 pmEverything is Nice does not think Octavia Butler's Kindred is SF.
Emerald City does not think Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife is SF.
(Note that the EC entry is rather old in internet years)
Both books involve time travel without a machine, not unlike this book:
I was boggled at the time that EC didn't think that The Time Traveler's Wife wasn't SF. I am boggled now that EiN doesn't classify Kindred as SF. Is this an age thing, that those of us old enough to have been around when JWC was having an effect on what got marketed as SF were conditioned to accept psychic time travel as SF?
Clearly I need somehow to induce both of them to read There Will Be Time (although I'd give good odds neither of them will like it, although not for reasons having to do with the time travel but more how poorly certain elements of it have aged) to see if they see it as SF or not.
Emerald City does not think Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife is SF.
(Note that the EC entry is rather old in internet years)
Both books involve time travel without a machine, not unlike this book:
I was boggled at the time that EC didn't think that The Time Traveler's Wife wasn't SF. I am boggled now that EiN doesn't classify Kindred as SF. Is this an age thing, that those of us old enough to have been around when JWC was having an effect on what got marketed as SF were conditioned to accept psychic time travel as SF?
Clearly I need somehow to induce both of them to read There Will Be Time (although I'd give good odds neither of them will like it, although not for reasons having to do with the time travel but more how poorly certain elements of it have aged) to see if they see it as SF or not.
A Blight of Mages
Nov. 15th, 2011 05:02 pmGoing into this expecting a comedy or perhaps a triumph of the human will over outdated class systems turns out to have been as bad an idea as trying to read Mark Roger's Zorachus as a light comedy.
(it was published in August so I can talk about it)
(it was published in August so I can talk about it)