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[coalescent]

Hmm. Haven't done one of these for a while. Two important bits of news first:

1. Tonight's BSFA London Meeting guest is the critic Gary K. Wolfe. He will be interviewed by Andrew McKie. I sincerely hope.

2. Strange Horizons needs reviewers. Specifically, reviewers interested in a broad range of speculative media who can say a lot in a small space. I know there are people reading this who can and do do this on a regular basis: I want your submissions! And spread the word far and wide. If you've got questions, ask away.

On to the rest of the links. First up: interview bonanaza! Paul Witcover at Fantastic Metropolis, Kelly Link at One Story (focusing on 'The Great Divorce'), and Ian McEwan at The Morning News and Spiegel.

The Fountain, Darren Aaronofsky's next film, sounds interesting.

Dirk Benedict is a moron. In other Galactica-related news, if you loved the piece of piano music on the soundtrack to episode 2x02 as much as I did, you might be glad to know that it's by Philip Glass and that you can download it here.

Lucius Shepard reviews War of the Worlds.

David Kipen gave a mixed review to the latest Harry Potter and got an inbox full of vitriol for his trouble. He addresses some myths about criticism:

Myth No. 1: Critics shouldn't reveal anything about a book's plot.

Myth No. 2: Any critic who disagrees with you must not have read the book.

Myth No. 3: All critics are frustrated writers.

There's a wiki for everything, these days.

And finally: Hamlet: the text adventure [via matociquala]

EDIT: via auros, a timeline for Primer. If you haven't seen the film, don't look at the timeline. In addition, if you haven't seen the film, see it as soon as possible. Don't find out what it's about first, just trust me on this one.

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

*nods*

There are things I don't like about it, and I'm worried about some of the rumours floating around about s2, but it does a lot of things well. The sense of desperation and pressure is one of them.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

And isn't the witchhunt theme timely? (then again, I suppose such things always are...)