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The Film-makers of Mars
tor.com - 12/2/2008
The Film-makers of Mars
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The films just started showing up, everywhere, old forgotten silent movies turning to jelly in warehouses all over SoCal: Anaheim, Burbank, Tarzana. I got a call from Al at Hannibal Restoration. “They’re mindblowing!” The old hippie. Eight reels of a film about Santa Claus from 1909. ...

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Geoff Ryman's "The Film-makers of Mars"
Roberson's Interminable Ramble — Stop what you're doing, and go over to Tor.com to read Geoff Ryman's short story, "The Film-Makers of Mars." It's an intriguing little story, reminding me a bit of Howard Waldrop at his best. The films just started showing up, everywhere, old forgotten silent movies turning to jelly in warehouses all over SoCal: Anaheim, Burbank, Tarzana. I got a call from Al at Hannibal Restoration. “They’re mindblowing!” The old hippie. Eight reels of a film about Santa Claus from 1909. Filmed in Lapland. And forty reels of a film it says was produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1911? (When I finished ...

E-Zines, Arthur C. Clarke Video, and Sci-Fi Comics
QuasarDragon — A ton more good free reading, and a Tales of Tomorrow episode written by Arthur C. Clarke. E-Fiction Clarkesworld Magazine has its 27th issue out with, Fiction: "A Woman's Best Friend" by Robert Reed. "Episode 72" by Don Webb. "The Completely Rechargeable Man" by Karen Heuler. Non-Fiction: "To Believe the Magic Is Real: A Conversation with Ed Greenwood" by Jeremy L. C. Jones. "Frosty was a WHAT?!!" by Neil Clarke. Including an audio version of "A Woman's Best Friend" by Robert Reed, read by Mary Robinette Kowal. All online ...

SF Tidbits for 12/3/08
SF Signal — Interviews & Profiles: @SciFi Wire: Eric Brown (Necropath). @Suvudu: Five Questions with Jacqueline Carey (the Kushiel series). @The Nebula Awards: Ysabeau Wilce (Flora Segunda). PodBlack Cat interviews sf/f author Michael Stackpole on role-playing games. @ActuSF: Sarah Ash (Tracing the Shadow). @The Future And You podcast: David Orban, a futurist who talks about spimes. From 1999: Jonathan lethem profiles Rod Serling: "...in a culture which devalued and marginalized ...

Friday Free Fiction for 5th December
Futurismic — It’s the first Friday Free Fiction of the month, which means that lots of webzines have new issues full to bursting of good stuff for you to read. So let’s get to it, eh? *** Here’s a mixed bag of old and new from the nice folk at Feedbooks: “The Plastic Elf of Extrusion Valley” by David McGillveray (portable Futurismic re-print!) “Master of None” by Lloyd Neil Goble “Medal of Honor” by Dallas McCord Reynolds ...

“The Film-makers of Mars,” a new short story by Geoff Ryman
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — [image] Thanks to a post last week on the blog QuasarDragon , I had an opportunity to read “ The Film-makers of Mars ,”a new short story by award-winning author Geoff Ryman that was published recently on the website of Tor Books. Freelance writer Josh Reynolds recommends the story to "anyone who has an interest in ER Burroughs, Mars, or cool concepts in particular. It's an interesting spin on a Burroughs classic, with a bit of film history thrown in to spice things up.”If you believe the folks at Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. have all kinds of ...

Nominees for the 2008 Marooned Awards
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — ... Best Short Story• “ Weird Fruits ” by Camille Alexa• “ The Full Story of the Firstborn Assault on Mars ” by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke• “ Catherine Drewe ” by Paul Cornell• " Noah's Ark " by Narendra Desirazu• “ The Eventful Career of Dr. Kevin Pearson, Astronomer ” by Edward Laag• " The Ambassador " by Mark Lawrence• “ The Wolves that Haunt the Rock ” by Patrick Lynch• “ Tricks of Light and Shadow ” by Barry Napier• “ The Film-makers of Mars ” by Geoff Ryman• " Mars's Gift " by Jonathan Schlosser• “ ...

Winners of the 2008 Marooned Awards
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — ... as a roughneck instead of a smug scientist, and the whole who’s-going-to-pay-for-this-mission issue confirms that economics has an important place in science fiction. With spaceships named after Burroughs, Schiaparelli, Lowell, and Bradbury, and Katerina Savitskaya nowhere in sight, “Tenbrook of Mars” is the winner of the 2008 Marooned Award for Best Novella or Novelette. Best Short Story: “Weird Fruits” by Camille Alexa I thoroughly enjoyed several of the short stories, including “ The Film-makers of Mars ,” by Geoff Ryman, and “ ...

Geoff Ryman reads his “The Film-makers of Mars"
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — ... read his new short story “The Film-makers of Mars” (2008). The podcast is more than two hours, but an introduction to the story starts at about the 13:30 minute mark and Ryman starts reading at about the 17:00 minute mark. The story concludes at about the 47:30 minute mark. Published on the website of Tor books, “ The Film-makers of Mars ” was one of my favorite short stories of 2008. If you have ever wondered what the folks at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., have locked up in the vault at Tarzana, you’ll enjoy this story! Cheers to Dave Tackett of the blog ...

Mars Invades Earth With X-Rated Movies: Hear For Yourself! [Weekend Listening]
io9 — ... Bizarre, pornographic silent movies turn up, allegedly made in 1911 — and then they start to feature uncannily real-looking Martians and other creatures straight out of Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories. The bitchy, demented story "The Film-makers Of Mars" could only be the work of Geoff Ryman (Air). It was published at Tor.com a while back, but now you can hear Ryman himself read it on the Starship Sofa podcast, and it gains a whole extra layer of snark in his own voice. You really need to hear Ryman discuss shaved pubes on Mars. Why? Because it's Saturday, and ...

More Free Fiction Than You Can Shake A Stick At
SF Signal — ... 2009) Chris Roberson: "Ill Met in Elvera" Bruce Holland Rogers: "Daddy" (Flash Fiction Online, August 2008) "Reconstruction Work" (Flash Fiction Online, December 2007) "The Bullfrog and His Shadows" (Flash Fiction Online, July 2008) "The House of Women" (Flash Fiction Online, September 2008) "What To Expect" (Flash Fiction Online, October 2008) Geoff Ryman: "The Film-makers of Mars" (Tor.com, December 2008) Robert Silverberg: Starman's ...

Locus Magazine’s 2008 Recommended Reading List
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — ... ", a short story by Ruth Nestvold, published in the January 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction• " The Film-makers of Mars ", a short story by Geoff Ryman, published online at Tor.com in December 2008

Three Mars stories nominated for 2009 storySouth Million Writers Award
Marooned: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books on Mars — ... (2008), by Kyle Hemmings, published online at Juked.com in April 2008• "The Film-makers of Mars" (2008), by Geoff Ryman, published online in at Tor.com in December 2008• ...

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