Subscribe to our news feed Newsfeed   Follow on Twitter Follow on Twitter   Our YouTube channel channel  Facebook page  
Friday, 20th November 2009   |   Science Fiction and Fantasy Media
SFFMedia

Search

Search Only:

Search Keyword literary work

Total: 15 results found.

1. Why I'm mad at Ridley Scott
(Films/Science fiction films)
... enthusiastic: "Hutchins' high-tech nightmares leap off the page and lodge in your brain like a literary headshot. Raw, brilliant and detailed." Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Infected ...
... criminal investigation series filling up prime time television. Literary critic, John Kenneth Muir went so far as to say: "Has there ever been a more influential television program than Chris Carter's ...
3. Why science fiction authors just can't win
(Books/Science fiction books)
Science fiction authors have long been outcasts from the literary world, in some cases critics using the worst examples of the genre as ammunition against it. Unfortunately though, at times even science ...
4. Sci Fi Channel resurrects Riverworld
(TV/Science fiction TV)
... act of literary vandalism. Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld series of five novels kicks off with a Hugo Award winner (1972): To Your Scattered Bodies Go introduces the Riverworld, an earthlike planet ...
... (1989) and its sequel Fall of Hyperion (1990), are intelligent, literary SF at its very best, and perhaps the closest that any author has come to achieving the sheer scale and quality of Frank Herbert’s ...
... a subversive gale that tore through a genre that had been producing reactionary, romanticised and unoriginal work for years. If not the father of the New Weird literary movement, a term coined by M. John ...
... that Magrs' novels are littered with literary references. Not unlike Jasper Fforde's superb Thursday Next novels. In fact, you might be forgiven for thinking that Magrs' series owes more than a little ...
... as they struggle with faith in Aslan, the Lion deity. In the novel Lewis does take the time to justify (from a literary perspective, not a theological one) the struggle and loss of faith of many Narnians, ...
9. No more science fiction for William Gibson
(Books/Science fiction books)
... slowly extracting himself from the science fiction scene to gain literary credibility? It's always been hard for science fiction writers to find a respectable place in the literary establishment. Aldous ...
... literary SF at its best. For sheer imaginative force and an abundance of literary and philosophical references Hyperion has few peers. Perhaps most notable of these nods to literature was Simmons use in Hyperion ...
11. What's happening with the Neuromancer movie?
(Films/Science fiction films)
... a studio gets hold of a good literary idea they naturally think in terms of a cinema audience. Fair enough, you might say, it’s all about adapting one medium (a novel) to another (film) and that has to ...
Robert Charles Wilson’s Darwinia is as near perfect as fiction comes. It’s literary, intelligent and entertaining in equal measure. Rarely does a writer get it this right. Wilson’s characters are complex ...
... Traditional literary criticism tends to place Beowulf on a pedestal: the great, flawless hero, almost a superman. Gaiman and Avery's Beowulf is a great hero, but he is one with flaws. Their intention, ...
14. The Somnambulist, by Jonathan Barnes
(Books/Fantasy books)
... moving. Although, be warned: our narrator confesses that he (or she), will have occasion to lie to us. So, naturally, I’m now going to quote the opening paragraph: Be warned. This book has no literary ...
15. Best/worst film adaptation of a literary work?
(Books/Science fiction books)
This is a tough one for a reason that is so obvious it's barely worth stating, but what the hell - a film and a literary work are fundamentally different! Ridley Scott's Bladerunner and the novel by Philip ...
Green Web Hosting
SFFMedia
Send us a story we've missed | Email
Editors
John Howell | Email | Blog
Gerard Wood | Email | Blog

Advertising: | Email

Report a bug | Email

RSS Feed | SFFMedia's newsfeed

Find us here too
SFFMedia Follow on Twitter
SFFMedia  More about SFFMedia