The title should say it all. IT REALLY IS FUN. Because its so fun, worldbuilding is a whole lot easier because Im using african cultures that I find interesting than other cultures around the world, and some bits(all right, im using some great things
Read more…Forget the "Battle of the Exes" (Bigelow vs. Cameron); actually, with all the hype and analysis there were no real surprises in the Big Six categories (Best Picture, Director, Lead and Supporting Actors). But there were a few in some other categories
"Anglophone science fiction has a long history of stories of contact between non-human civilizations and ourselves. Anglophone science fiction has perhaps a smaller but quite significant trove of novels and stories written from the points of view, ev
Read more…The most-hyped series of the new television season (after Glee and The Good Wife) is ABC’s FlashForward (Thursday, 8 PM ET). The network hopes it will be the next Lost only without getting viewers lost in the process.
Based on Robert J. Sawyer’s nove
Read more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77rFJD00kg&feature=player_embedded#
First I covered my tail by figuring out a way to tie it into SyFy and Fantasy.
Yall gon hafta excuse me, but I'm sick of this isht.
So Precious turns out to be an interesting case study in film, self hate andblack culture.
From so many angles.
Monique gi
Hey,
I thought this might be of interest to the community and more specifically to all the community's writers.
"Independentchildren's book publisher Lee & Low will launch a new imprint, Tu Books, infall 2011. Tu Books will publish multicultural scie
I look forward to your comments...peace.
Read more…I think it's been written several times on this site that the media does not consider the African American consumer a viable demographic when selling science fiction. Though, I believe that trend has changed for the better in the visual arts, like th
Read more…The purpose of this column is to inform as well as entertain, to educate without you thinking there’ll be a test. It’s not just enough for me to say something sucks; I should be able to tell you, specifically and objectively, why it sucks. The object
Read more…Orson Welles did not create any new technology making Citizen Kane but he did use every existing technology of the time (save color) in ways that were unique. There were numerous things that had never been done before with sound, lighting, sets, edit
So for the past two movies that I've watched recently (The Lightning Thief and Sherlock Holmes) I actually enjoyed The Lightning Thief better.
It was a fun watch and pretty interesting. Though, I did notice that another Black character was "crippled
Read more…Misspelling intentional.
Potnent=Potent=Good.
But yo as I'm guessing some of you might be up on the flick as some sorta zombie type flick, right?
but it's really about how a small town begins to deteriorate and how the military intervenes and orchestrat
I was taking out the garbage when suddenly a horde of giant mutant, highly intelligent spiders, appeared out of nowhere from all directions. They tried to surround me but I managed to escape before they could close the cordon.
Haven't read it, but always eager to display any black fantasy author who's making it out there-
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 1
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under myster
Read more…5 Super Powers You Can Have Today Posted by rappin in Science and Technology on 05 1st, 2009 | 25 responses Everybody wants superpowers, from the simple innocence of a child yearning for flight to the sad perversion of the Amish man praying for x-ray
Read more…So Hollywood came calling and asked you (the author) who you would like to be cast as the lead protagonists and antagonists?
Give a short description of your book. Then start casting the three or four main characters. If your book is currently availa
Read more…What do you prefer:
a. A detailed description of how the protagonists should look in a book?
b. A general description to allow your own imagination to picture how the protagonists should look?
