Briefly Noted: Sci-Fi and the Election
Tuesday October 28, 2008
A Dalek on the red carpet: But would it be as menacing with chocolate frosting?
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- Craig Engler, my old boss at Science Fiction Weekly and now the head of scifi.com, warns that electronic voting machines are invitations to hack the election.
- An article in a Welsh newspaper reports, somewhat surprisingly, that American Doctor Who fans are more likely to vote Republican.
- Fans of Red Dwarf rejoice: The Independent reports that four new episodes will be on digital cable in the UK next year.
- Locus magazine's interview with Ursula K. LeGuin includes her vow never to sell her work to Hollywood again.
- io9 has an interesting list of big-name sci-fi authors who last works were published posthumously.
- Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman comics, Stardust, and American Gods, told Premiere magazine he wants to script Guillermo del Toro's film version of Doctor Strange, currently slated for 2012.
- Quiet Earth talks about S4, a no-budget sci-fi comedy that's partly an homage to Plan 9 From Outer Space and Ed Wood's other infamously bungled classics.
- Cake Wrecks, a blog about hilariously bad professional cakes, goes to town on disastrously executed Dalek cakes, while SF Signal rails against the cutification of the Doctor's deadliest enemies in Who merchandising, and Futurismic spots a video featuring a baby Dalek pumpkin.
- A poll in progress at Slice of Sci-Fi asking which canceled TV show should be promoted to the big screen seems to be leaning toward Flash Gordon (!). Well, it did start getting better toward the end...
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