Grand Masters of Science Fiction
Via SF Signal and well worth every minute:
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That Guy! (Watch me get my Greek heroes confused)
From my conversation with John Blyler at OryCon. (The series I am talking about is Kay Kenyon’s The Entire and the Rose.)
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V Trailer
I have to admit I’m not that excited about a remake of V. But the trailer looks interesting:
Bradbury Award
Joss Whedon accepts the Bradbury Award from Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America at the 2009 Nebula Award ceremony.
Robot Astronomy Talk Show
Via SFSignal: NASA’s Irrelevant Astronomy. The episode “Gravity and the Great Attractor” features George Takei and has cameos from Ed Wasser and Mark Hamill. And is way better than I was expecting:
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They’re Coming! Get Ready for the Robo Species!
Via Pink Tentacle: This child robot is programmed to recognize facial expressions and learn like a human infant. “Within two years, the researchers hope the robot will gain the intelligence of a two-year-old child and the ability to speak in basic sentences. In the coming decades, the researchers expect to develop a ‘robo species’ that has learning abilities somewhere between those of humans and chimps.”
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Seriously Cool
Via SF Signal, Bear McCreary’s “All Along the Watchtower,” used in the last season finale of Battlestar Galactica, matched up here with some machinima battle sequences from EVE Online.
Seriously, cool, yes? And one more data point that makes me think the explosion of SF&F net-film is moments away…