In 1997, Last Unicorn gave Zug the chance at recreating Frank Herbert's 'Dune' through a new trading card series. He was originally told to base his work off of David Lynch's film, but after complications with licensing, "they told me to avoid similarity to Lynch's visuals" says Mark Zug. Mark Zug's Dune
trading cards.
posted by Artw
on May 24, 2013 -
49 comments
Davis and Ma wrote up a long list of one-paragraph game pitches to prototype. They would be small, manageable games that two people could complete on their own. The game they chose to go with would have to be finished within a year, because that was all they had budgeted for. Among the pitches inspired by board games, roguelikes and all the genres that excited them was a 2D, top-down management game called FTL. The Opposite of Fail
- The making of
FTL (
Previously)
posted by Artw
on Mar 17, 2013 -
19 comments
Gaming made me - RPS writer Patricia Hernandez on how Fallout 2 shaped her world view, her politics and her sexuality.
posted by Artw
on Nov 23, 2012 -
88 comments
Boojum, a spacefaring Cthulhu Mythos story run through the filter of Lewis Carroll by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (
Interview). A sequel in the same universe,
Mongoose, Appeared in the
Ellen Datlow edited anthology
Lovecraft Unbound. An audio of Mongoose is available at the Drabblecast (
part 1,
part 2), as well as a further sequel,
The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward (
part 1,
part 2)
posted by Artw
on Sep 21, 2012 -
31 comments
What I wrote was unquestionably fiction — was fantasy. Among Others has magic and fairies. But I was writing fantasy about a science fiction reader who had a lot of the same things happen to her that happened to me. It’s set at the end of 1979 and the beginning of 1980, and it’s about a fifteen year old just when I was fifteen, and from a family like mine and in the time and place and context where I was. I was using a lot of my own experience and memories. But this is Mori, not me, and she lives in a world where magic is real. Jo Walton, who as editor for tor.com
revisisted the Hugos 1953-2000, now has one of her own, taking home
the 2012 Best Novel Award for
Among Others. Other winners include
Kij Johnson for her Novella
The Man who Bridged the Mist (excerpt) and io9 regular
Charlie Jane Anders for her novellete
Six Months, Three Days. The Best Graphic Story award went to the webcomic
Digger by
Ursula Vernon. E Lily Yu took home the Bets New Writer award (technically not a Hugo) and was also nominated for her short story
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees. A couple of TV shows you have heard of also got awards. Links to many of the nominated stories
here.
posted by Artw
on Sep 3, 2012 -
51 comments
"Last week, I graduated from the 2012 Clarion Writer’s Workshop. And everything people tell you about it is true—it’s incredible, it’s transformative, it will make you into the writer you were meant to be, it builds unbreakable bonds with a ton of other brilliant writers. AND you’ll be devastated when it’s over. As I attempt to process my grief at Clarion’s end, I thought I would transcribe the copious notes that I took during the course of those six weeks." Clarion 2012: Every Brilliant Piece of Writing Advice (via
jscalzi)
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on Aug 14, 2012 -
98 comments
Comics artist Frazer Irving adapts Mary Shelly's Frankenstein in hauntingly beautiful black and white:
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posted by Artw
on Aug 2, 2012 -
11 comments
In 2273, after having been thought lost in a black hole, Voyager 6 returned to Federation space as
V'Ger, the massive and menacing spaceship at the heart of
Star Trek: The Motion Picture...
Designing the Living Machine - concept art for V'Ger,
Redesigning the Walk to V’Ger,
The Lighting and Photography of Star Trek's "V'ger",
working on the interior of V'ger,
V'ger External View,
V'Ger - Spock Mindmeld Model Piece (scroll way down) (may contain
Darth Vader and Miss Piggy),
animating the "V'ger Probe",
V'ger rear view.
posted by Artw
on May 3, 2012 -
41 comments
