SFSignal is back with another Mind Meld. This one looks at Hollywood Science Fiction and asks "What other story, or stories, do you believe are deserving of being made into movies and why?" In addition to Yours Truly, responses are from Peggy Kolm, Michael L. Wentz, Michael Blackmore, SciFiChick, and the always interesting John C. Wright. Wright argues that, as a visual medium, "A science fiction movie that does not involve spectacle and special effects is not taking advantage of the primary strength of movies." I concur. I'd pick my list from some newer works though, as nothing dates like the future. Still, as I say in my own piece, with the cost of CGI dropping, there's going to be more of everything, so I think they'll be enough to keep us all happy.
Meanwhile, I'm interviewed about illustrator Stephan Martiniere over on io9.com in "The Future Will Be Bio-Mechanical." Some very nice samples of his work, including the concept art he did for the I, Robot film that happens to be the piece that lead me to put him on our edition of River of Gods.
(And speaking about Ian McDonald books, although I'm not in it, there is an interview with Ian talking about both Brasyl
and the forthcoming The Dervish House up at Post-Weird Thoughts.)
Finally, GalleyCat uses the occasion of Michael Moorcock's Grand Masterhood to quote me and others talking about John Picacio's genius in a piece titled "A Grand Master's Greatest Character Reborn." This is, of course, about Picacio's recent work conceiving and illustrating Moorcock's Elric: The Stealer of Souls
reissue for Del Rey as well as our own The Metatemporal Detective.
Michael Whelan's Elric has always been the definitive portrayal of the character for me. Until now. Go see why.
3 comments:
Ahhh, now we know why Martiniere was in your office not long ago!
That's a wonderful interview Lou - there's lots of new information there and some real analysis of his art and its relationship to SF. Very interesting.
This comment - "the sense of the future being as much biological as mechanical" - brings to mind Perdido Street Station. It really is nice to know that someone thinks that people will still be around as people.
Just read IanMacdonald's comment on the Pyr Blog . . . hehe.
You were also on Adventures in Scifi Publishing 2 weeks ago. I don't want that small piece of brilliance to be lost. :-)
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