Monthly Archives: September 2008

I just watched a documentary about the making of Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I remember sometime in the mid-70s, I would have been 11 or 12.  My parent’s had gone out for the afternoon.  I pulled out the stereo and dragged it into the middle of the lounge room, and dug out some … Continue reading »

Discussion of media tie-ins continues all over the place. There’s a piece over at Jonathan McAlmont’s SF Diplomat, and he links to more. I don’t typically find that my worldview aligns with SF Diplomat all that much, but I was struck by one point: the underpinning to my own view of tie-ins is that I’m … Continue reading »

Some scattered thoughts, notes, links etc from around the Interweb: Jetse De Vries has resigned from Interzone. I’ve been meeting Jetse at WorldCons for the past handful of years, and I think he’s been doing a terrific job as part of the IZ editorial crew.  We just spoke in Denver so it wasn’t a complete … Continue reading »

There’s been some talk around the Blogosphere of late about media tie-in fiction: its merits and demerits, whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing and so on. The good folk at SF Signal have added their two cents worth, with an interesting Mind Meld: “How do media tie-in novels affect science fiction?“. The … Continue reading »