At a panel discussion, Octavia Butler reveals how she became a writer, watching a movie and thinking, “Jeez, I can write a better story than that!” Butler is interviewed by Charlie Rose in 2000. And a clip of her from a television documentary on science fiction.
Novelist Samuel Youd, who wrote as John Christopher, has died. Gutter readers might remember him best for his science fiction series, The Tripods, which was adapted for television by the BBC and Australia’s Seven Networks in the 1980s. The Guardian has an overview of his life and career.
The Thing remade as an episode of Pingu.
Ever wonder why the competent and kickass action ladies always die? TV Tropes examines why “Vasquez Always Dies.”
Halcyon Realms looks at a Japanese collection of French comic artist Moebius’ series, Le Monde d’Edena.
My favorite part of Aliens on Ice? Jones the cat.
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