Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Superman should be invincible. Since his car-smashing debut in 1938, he’s starred in at least one regular monthly comic, three blockbuster films, and four television shows. His crest is recognized across the globe, his supporting cast is legendary, and anybody even vaguely familiar with comics can recount the broad strokes of his origin. (The writer…
Do you ever listen to electronic music and think, “You know what would make this better? Star Wars samples!” You’re not alone, apparently: legendary producer Rick Rubin is curating a new EDM compilation called Star Wars Headspace, a sort of companion piece for the December’s The Force Awakens in which a dozen popular producers monkey…
It’s not exactly uncommon knowledge at this point that the never-released Game of Thrones pilot wasn’t just totally different to what we got; it was a downright disaster. But it eventually got reworked into something that sparked a cultural sensation is a miracle… and hoo boy, do David Benioff and D. B. Weiss know it….
It was easily one of the biggest interviews of my career. My editor couldn’t get it for me. I got it myself. I joke about it pretty frequently, although being about six feet tall with a curvier build undoubtedly has its advantages. It was late last July, I was in a tiny crop top and a destroyed…
The zillions of tie-in stories for The Force Awakens revealed there was going to be a scene in the movie where Leia acknowledged that her former colleagues in the Senate were just as likely to want to have her killed as they were to ignore her. A new Star Wars novel is going to explore…
The Expanse just finished its first season—leaving us with ten episodes of a show which beat all our highest expectations and made Syfy a destination in a way that it hasn’t been since Battlestar Galactica. How? Warning: Spoilers abound. The Expanse had a doubly difficult job to do. It had to adapt a book to…
Neuromancer was a commissioned work. I have no idea how many years it might have taken, otherwise, before I produced a novel on spec. Had you asked me at the time of commission, I would have told you 10, but then again, it might never have happened. Careers are odd, that way. (Careers are nothing but odd.) I was 34,…
Last September, we wrote about the profoundly fucked-up legal battles that Kesha has been trapped in with her producer Dr. Luke, who she alleges abused, drugged, and raped her. Kesha filed a lawsuit against Dr. Luke in October 2014, at which point he responded with his own suit claiming that the singer fabricated accusations to get…
Share. Fly to Gotham City and Metropolis. By Jim Vejvoda Turkish Airlines called upon Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice characters Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor to tout their respective hometowns in two new ads dropped on Super Bowl Sunday. The commercials seen below feature Ben Affleck and Jesse Eisenberg as their characters to sell…
I suppose hating on the inexplicable hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory for portraying nerds poorly is like hating the birds for singing: it’s just what they do. But now they’ve dragged Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples’ incredible scifi-fantasy comic Saga into their excrement. Mentioning Saga is actually an impressive nerd reference for a…