Inceptionis a solid movie, full of complications, a lot of thrill, and most importantly, some good ideas. While it also has a couple of interesting characters in DiCaprio and Murphy, the rest of the cast fulfills their positions dutifully, easy to interchange and forget. It’s a caper film–with the majority of the movie about [...]
Archive for the ‘science fiction writing’ Tag
Inception: the Idea trumps Character (movie review) 3 comments
Morgan Whibley Shot Me in the Alley and All I Could Say Was This: An Essay on Writing Genre 2 comments
Some stunning work by Morgan Whibley, a Whitehorse based photographer. The Alley Series. (Yes, it was stunning and fun even before I was a subject.) His rules are simple: One alley from sidewalk to sidewalk. Ambient light only. A different person everyday. Seven days a week. He’d been doing this for 43 days in a [...]
Deadline Nov 30 for Tesseracts 14: Canadian Sci-fi and Fantasy Stories 3 comments
A reminder to all those thinking about submitting your short fiction (limit 7500 words) to Tesseracts 14, the latest in the series of anthologies featuring Canadian science fiction and fantasy. It doesn’t have to be about Canada, or about the north. Basically they are anthologies of Canadian writing. (Okay, and a few stray Americans or [...]
The Resonance of Flashforward for People of Faith 1 comment
The ABC series, Flashforward, arguably one of the best written series in a long time, and the best using a science fiction concept, wrestles with a very old idea: what if you knew the future? The show expands it to ask: what if everyone knew the future? And by Episode 3: What if everyone THOUGHT [...]
Flashforward: the Excellence that “Knowing” could have been Leave a comment
Watch Flashforward, Episode One Robert Sawyer’s Flashforward has been made into an ABC miniseries. It is a masterpiece. I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know how faithful the series is to the original book, but the book won an Aurora Award. The premise is that everyone blacks out at the same moment for [...]
PUSH is surprisingly good, an Indie film for Heroes watchers 2 comments
Imagine if Sophia Coppola, of Lost in Translation, had directed a sci-fi thriller and you can imagine the quirky,smart, place- layered PUSH, a movie now available on DVD. PUSH is set in Hong Kong, which is hugely in its favor, and allows the nature of Hong Kong to decide scene shots and plot development. [...]
Yukon 2058, the radio series, starts Dec. 8 3 comments
Well, it’s official. Yukon 2058, my newest radio series premieres Dec. 8th on CBC. They’ll play it in the mornings, in the afternoons and have it available on their website for 24hrs. If you miss it, you can go to their CBC North website. What is it? It’s a story about a man who is [...]
