blogs.amctv.com - 5/22/2009
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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 business like Star Wars did: It made $300 million ...
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 Conversation with John Scalzi
tor.com 3/24/2009 — John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War took me by surprise. I picked up the book because I’d heard a lot of good things about him and decided I’d give it a one-page tryout. Either he’d grip me right away or I’d drop it. Twenty pages later I realized I ...
John Scalzi Answers the Burning Question - Can SciFI Movies Be Cool?
blogs.amctv.com 10/22/2009 — An interesting question from the mailbag:
"Hey, Scalzi: Was science fiction ever cool?"
The answer: Well, no, not generally, but it depends on what you mean by "cool," which is a fairly fungible cultural term.
For example, there's "cool," ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
John Scalzi Rates SciFi Movies by Their EXPLOSIONS!
blogs.amctv.com 7/3/2009 —
This Saturday, it's July 4, when America celebrates its independence from Britain by blowing things up real good. Nothing says "We, as a nation, aspire to be a beacon of democracy and equal rights" like a truly boom-tastic explosion. Since such ...
10 Facts About John Scalzi
feedproxy.google.com 25 days ago — 1. Scalzi is really a clockwork automaton who has been programmed to slowly spread angst wherever he goes.
2. As we all know Wheaton is the Bizarro Scalzi. If Scalzi ever shook hands with Wil Wheaton the world ...
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 ...
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