“Future Imperfect” at the Boston Underground Film Festival
My brother's movie 'Robotic Panic' was accepted into the "Future Imperfect" short film collection showing today and tomorrow at the Kendall Theater as part of the Boston Underground Film Festival. That was reason enough for me to go see the collection but I also wanted to see what the future looks like in 2011.
In short: grainy, grimy and grim.
Review of “Windup Girl”
The winner of the 2009 Nebula and 2010 Hugo awards for science fiction and fantasy novels, Paulo Bacigalupi’s Windup Girl, represents a quandary. It well-deserves recognition and acclaim but is it science fiction or fantasy? Most of the reviews I’ve read place the work in the former genre and compare it to William Gibson or Bruce Sterling. Others fudge the issue by labeling the novel ‘dystopian’ or ‘bio-punk.’ All of these are clever dodges of the central issue of the novel: while impressively grim, compelling, and lyrical it is certainly hard to believe from the perspective of a Newtonian universe.
More on this in a moment.