It’s six years old, but I finally got round to watching Looper. Interesting. Not sure about it. Some of the time-travel stuff didn’t make sense — or was confusing, at least. The loopers do their killing and body-disposal in the past, but by the time Bruce Willis comes into it, …
“Would you go anywhere near a book described on its back cover as ‘a cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love’?”, begins this Guardian review of Patience by Daniel Clowes. What other answer could there be but, “Hell, yeah!”? My copy arrived today.
The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, or Sci-Fi-London is in its eleventh year, and I’ve never been to anything in it before. That’s kind of bad, isn’t it? This week, though, I’ve been to the presentation of the Clarke Award, which is held in association with …
What a fine conceit. Take the two great science fiction works by one of the genre’s defining masters, mash them up together, and use the result to tell the ‘inside’ story of both of them. It’s title is an obvious allusion to ??The Time Machine??, but this is actually much …