blogs.amctv.com - 3/20/2009
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A friend of mine and I were talking about science fiction movies -- I know, a shocker -- and he asked me a fairly random question: Could I think of any good science fiction movies starring a musician? When I noted the apparent randomness of this, he floated the theory that by and large, ...
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
nethspace.blogspot.com 3/16/2009 — My review of Agent to the Stars is available over at Bookspot Central where I'm an associate reviewer ( US , UK , Canada ). I enjoyed it - it's pretty much like other Scalzi books with a bit of the first-book syndrome going on. With the basic premise of the novel being that an alien ...
REVIEW: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
sfsignal.com 1/7/2009 — MY RATING:
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A first contact story like no other -- aliens finally come to Earth, but because their forms are distasteful need an image makeover and hire a Hollywood agent introduce them to humanity.
MY REVIEW:
PROS: ...
Read a John Scalzi Story, Help a Writer in Need
subterraneanpress.com 12/8/2008 — Over at his blog, Whatever , John Scalzi has published the first look at a short story we commissioned by him, “The State of Super Villainy.” Head over to John’s site for all the particulars — you may need to scroll down a bit ...
John Scalzi - SciFi Movies Made Money Before Star Wars, Too
blogs.amctv.com 5/22/2009 — Here's a fun question I received:
"Did science fiction films do well financially before Star Wars? It seems like that's when Hollywood realized scifi was big business."
Well, to be sure, no one had ever seen a science fiction movie do ...
John Scalzi - In Praise of Dark Star and Other SciFi B-Movies
blogs.amctv.com 4/9/2009 — And now, a list of reasons why I, as a movie fan, am really digging AMCtv.com's new B-movies site , on which you can watch "classic" B-movies from the comfort of your own laptop -- why, yes, I am shamelessly plugging another portion of the AMC ...
A John Scalzi SciFi Thanksgiving
blogs.amctv.com 11/27/2008 — Here in the United States it's Thanksgiving, when we all sit around with family and friends, eat a 48,000-calorie pile of food, and then collapse in front of the television to watch football. It's an American tradition, and I guess somewhere in there ...
John Scalzi Tries 007 and Repo Man in the SciFi Court
blogs.amctv.com 1/22/2009 — I've spent the last week traveling the width and breadth of this great North American continent of ours, and wherever I go people want to get into a debate with me, per my column a few weeks ago , over how I judge what movies count as science ...
All John Scalzi Wants for Xmas Is Original SciFi
blogs.amctv.com 12/26/2008 — Hey, did you know it's Christmas? I know! It's like it happens every year or something. It's also one of the days of Hanukkah as well, so today's schedule is just plain packed . I don't know how many of you will be reading this on December 25th, ...
John Scalzi Interview
assortednonsense.com 9/21/2009 — Here’s an interview I did with John Scalzi at the world science fiction convention in Toronto back in 2003. Back before any of his novels came out. At this time he was just kind of getting into the whole science fiction convention thing.
I ...