DCU Drops Comic-Con, David Brin Rants On Trump, Anne McCaffrey's Anti-Porn Rules - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
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Book Review: Honeybees And Distant Thunder by Onda Riku - Translated by Philip Gabriel
There is a café near Porta Saragozza in Bologna where someone is always practicing upstairs. You never see who it is. You hear scales through the ceiling, then a passage from something you almost recognize, then the scales again. I was sitting there with the Japanese edition of this book, and the pianist upstairs started what I think was Chopin — one of…
Marvel Returns To Hall H While DC Studios Has Nothing To Show
Marvel Studios is coming back to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con after skipping the room entirely last year, and the studio’s timing makes DC’s silence look worse by the day. Marvel confirmed a Saturday, July 25 presentation built around Avengers: Doomsday, five months ahead of the film’s December release, with Kevin Feige promising “special guests from a…
Anne McCaffrey Had Rules Banning Fan Fiction Pornography, And Modern Publishing Should Follow Her Lead
Anne McCaffrey, who created the Dragonriders of Pern series beginning in 1968 and spent decades building one of the most beloved science fiction and fantasy universes in the genre’s history, published an explicit set of fan fiction guidelines that included one rule stated without apology or hedge:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Supernatural Star Matt Cohen Talks His New Film "Exes"
Exes just dropped on Prime Video, your feature directorial debut after years of acting work, a season fifteen Supernatural directing credit, and your award-winning short Mama Bear. Where did the core idea come from, and what made you and Lee Ehlers know this was the one to build a feature around?
David Brin Spent the Fourth of July Using the Declaration of Independence as an Anti-Trump Weapon
Connie Willis was not the only science fiction author who spent the nation’s 250th birthday publishing political screeds on Facebook. David Brin, winner of two Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, and a Locus Award, took a different approach. He went historical. The history does not hold up.