Wow, Hereafter is a pretty amazing SF short film. Check it out.
Wow, Hereafter is a pretty amazing SF short film. Check it out.
nataliosan: Blade Runner by Austin Christianson
nataliosan:
Blade Runner by Austin Christianson
“If you are going to write what a friend of a friend once called ‘Made up space shit’, then if it’s…”
“If you are going to write what a friend of a friend once called ‘Made up space shit’, then if it’s going to have any ring of truth that means sometimes some of the horrible characters get to live, and for there to be any sense of jeopardy, especially in future novels, the good people have to die. Sometimes.”
– The last Iain Banks interview has just been put up at the Guardian. It’s strong stuff. I didn’t know what quote to pull, so have grabbed it. Him on the politics, death and his plans will probably leap out at you, but this one says something about what I loved about his Science Fiction work.
(I’d also agree that SONG OF STONE is one of the under-rated ones. Not easy in any way, not a crowd-pleaser, but has real poetry to it.)
