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[coalescent]

Two more reasons to watch Tim Minear's new show The Inside: Amber Benson will be guest-starring in an episode, and Rob Kral will be providing the soundtrack. Premiere is two weeks today, people.

Tonight's BSFA London meeting guest is Harry Harrison, interviewed by Tom Hunter.

Locus has been reporting that Charles Stross' forthcoming novel Accelerando will be available for download from the website as an ebook under a creative commons license. This is a very cool thing.

Stross has also put up a tough guide to the singularity. He says he wrote it while channelling his inner fifteen-year-old; personally I think he sounds more like tom.

Via an interesting post by filomancer, Rudy Rucker's guest of honour talk from this year's ICFA, 'Seek the Gnarl'. Includes classification of fiction into 'low gnarl' and 'high gnarl', which it's hard not to love.

Over the past fortnight, Strange Horizons has serialised David Moles' story 'Planet of the Amazon Women'. Did I tell you to read it yet? You should; it's been growing on me and I liked it quite a bit to start with. I will write about it for shortform at some point, honest.

A rather nice Firefly vid: River and Simon, to the tune of 'Street Spirit' by Radiohead. [via communicator]

Comments

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason to watch The Inside: Ben Edlund is writing episode 11.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

If it gets that far, of course. /cynic

[danmilburn.livejournal.com]

Well, they have a 13 episode order, so it'll get made. Whether Fox will show it is a different matter..

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I guess if all else fails we'll be able to buy the DVDs. :)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Which is not to say that the whole 'getting the band back together' vibe isn't deeply cool. It is. :)

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

Is The Inside going to be on UK TV, or are you pimping teh eval downloading agian?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Three guesses, and the first two don't count. :p

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Three guesses, and the first two don't count. :p

1) You're going to find the scripts and film a shot-for-shot remake in your back yard, then distribute it to all your friends. You will of course be playing all the lead roles. Tim Minear will be so impressed he'll hire you to direct an episode.

2)The series will be aired at 7.45 p.m. on Saturday evenings on BBC1, after Doctor Who, and will be the rating success of the year.

3) The evil downloading thing.