Crackle is developing a series reimagining of the Joseph Conrad novel “Heart of Darkness,” Variety has learned exclusively. The project is set in the future where Earth is a distant memory. It is described as an exploration of what it means to be human on a space odyssey where the survival of the human race… Read More A Sci-Fi Series Based on “Heart of Darkness”
Good sci-fi and fantasy in the grand pulp style. Link goes to Amazon, image ganked from editor’s wordpress blog. You get a good bang for your cover price. The issue I have is chock full of interesting takes.
One of the sci-fi novellas I’m working on right now, Void, has a theme about space travel and the hell it plays with time. When I wrote Solar System Blues, I avoided this by making the ship in question travel at below-light velocity, and deliberately making the voyage a long one. Even then, the fact that Burton… Read More Time in Space
Way before I’d ever read 1984, I’d heard of it. I don’t know if I had heard of it during the year 1984, as I turned eight that autumn, but somewhere along the way I heard that particular year spoken of in that way that conveyed symbolic significance. When I did read it,that significance finally took… Read More 1985 is a Thing
On the Flipboard. I call it Things to Read. In this issue: Victor Davis Hanson’s “An American Satyricon” Robert Stacy McCain’s “The Columbia Journalism Review is (Still) Decadent and Depraved” Jessica Khoury’s “Is It Science Fiction” An excerpt from Jordan Belfort’s Memoir, “The Wolf of Wall Street” And much much more (well, more anyway)!
Content Blues 