Failing again. Failing better.
According to this website, not only is Paramount Pictures set to adapt Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel SNOW CRASH, but Joe Cornish, writer and director of “Attack the Block” and co-writer of “The Adventures of Tin-Tin” has also reportedly signed on to write and direct the adaptation. Paramount had tried to make the movie back…
I’m always reading. I love it, and I can’t get enough of it. I think this blog has made that pretty obvious that I love science fiction and fantasy. But I feel like I’ve been playing catch up with my reading lately. For example, I just finished Reamde by Neal Stephenson. Finally, I know. But…
A few days ago, a talk by Neal Stephenson (author of the newly-released REAMDE) was posted online. Stephenson recalls how both he and his parents have seen tremendous scientific developments: planes, cars, television, nuclear weapons, space travel. He notes that science fiction authors similarly wrote about about worlds were even more fantastic inventions were commonplace,…