…is never the Last Big Thing. Hollywood is a place that monetizes imagination. Which makes one wonder why at the very highest levels, imagination is always in such short supply. As the Last Big Thing wrapped up at HBO right before the pandemic, it was with predictable ineptness that every big streamer and studio tried to find a knockoff that would never see the same level of success. Amazon paid ridiculous sums for a sliver of Tolkien’s world. HBO looked to GoT’s past for its financial future. Meanwhile, a former…
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Let’s Talk About This Picture
Along with the Silo teaser and release date (May the 5th be with you!), Apple dropped a few images from the upcoming episodes. This one in particular means the world to me: Jules and Holston. The driving forces behind the novel that changed my life and led to this adaptation. What’s so cool about this image (and the episode it’s from) is that these two critical and beloved characters never appear in the books together. Their past is alluded to, mentioned, referenced, but never seen. Why did Holston pick Juliette…
One Step at a Time
Look at that. Take it in. Not only is the #Silo TV show real and coming out soon, the silo is freaking real. I’ve been inside it. The set would blow your mind. Three stories tall and two hundred feet across, the silo is a mountain of steel and concrete inside a giant warehouse outside of London. The first time I walked into the set it was still under construction, but the sheer scale alone took my breath away. It not only dwarfed the men and women working on the…
Entire SILO series for $1.99!
I had no idea this sale was going on until a reader shared it with me. I also have no idea how long it will last. But right now, you can get the SILO saga (WOOL, SHIFT, and DUST) for $1.99! That’s about $60 off the retail price! This set includes three SILO stories released last year with the box set, and I’d say at this price, it’s worth it for those three stories alone. Heck, I grabbed a copy just to have the whole set on all my devices!…
The SPSFC continues!
Welcome back to the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition! Now in its second year! In case you missed it last year, you may be wondering what in the world is the SPSFC? Well, it’s an opportunity to shine a great big laser beam on wonderful works of self-pubbed science fiction. For a few years now, Mark Lawrence has been organizing a contest known as the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. Science fiction authors and bloggers have been clamoring for something similar. So we made it ourselves. Just bigger, faster, stronger. Scouring the world…