domingo, 31 de maio de 2015

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (71)

Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

sábado, 30 de maio de 2015

Milo Ventimiglia

Momento Sexy (24)



O Milo é um daqueles actores que não chama muito a atenção das meninas por cá, mas que eu adoro desde que o vi em Heroes (2006-2010). Para quem gosta do rapaz, é possível vê-lo em Chosen, uma série de acção e aventura que foi renovada para a quarta temporada (cada temporada tem apenas seis episódios) e em Gotham, onde desempenha um serial killer. Ainda este ano vai estrear a série de ficção científica, baseada num conto de Ray Bradbury, The Whispers no canal ABC.

O Prazer da Leitura (71)

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.  

Night Film, Marisha Pessl

sexta-feira, 29 de maio de 2015

Aurora Awards

Nomeações 2015


Os Aurora Awards premeiam as melhores obras e actividades feitas e publicadas no Canadá em 2014. Abaixo ficam os nomeados:

Melhor Romance
A Play of Shadow, Julie E. Czerneda (DAW)
The Peripheral, William Gibson (Penguin Canada)
The Future Falls, Tanya Huff (DAW)
My Real Children, Jo Walton (Tor)
Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)

Melhor Romance para Jovens Adultos

Sea of Shadows, Kelley Armstrong (Doubleday Canada)
The Voices in Between, Charlene Challenger (Tightrope)
Out of This World, Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada)
Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf, Sherry Peters (Dwarvenamazon)
Lockstep, Karl Schroeder (Tor)
Rain, Amanda Sun (Harlequin Teen)
Twist of the Blade, Edward Willett (Coteau)
 
Melhor Ficção Curta
“Crimson Sky”, Eric Choi (Analog 7-8/14)
“Jelly and the D-Machine”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
“Soul-Hungry”, Suzanne Church (Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction)
“Mecha-Jesus”, Derwin Mak (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
“No Sweeter Art”, Tony Pi (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/4/14)

Melhor Poema/Canção
“The Machine”, David Clink (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)
“The Perfect Library”, David Clink (If the World were to Stop Spinning)
“The New Ways”, Amal el-Mohtar (Uncanny 11/14)
“Aversions”, Helen Marshall (Goblin Fruit 10/14)
“A Hex, With Bees”, Tony Pi (Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen)

Melhor Novela Gráfica
Treadwell, Dominic Bercier (Mirror)
Raygun Gothic Vol. 2, GMB Chomichuk (Alchemical)
Cassie & Tonk, Justin Currie & GMB Chomichuk (Chasing Artwork)
Trillium, Jeff Lemire (Vertigo)
It Never Rains, Kari Maaren (itneverrainscomic.com)

Melhor Trabalho Relacionado
Elements: A Collection of Speculative Fiction, Suzanne Church (EDGE)
On Spec (The Copper Pig Writers’ Society)
Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall (ChiZine)
Lackington’s, Ranylt Richildis, ed. (lackingtons.com)
Strange Bedfellows, Hayden Trenholm, ed. (Bundoran)

Melhor Artista
James Beveridge
Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk & Steve Fahnestalk
Erik Mohr
Derek Newman-Stille
Dan O’Driscoll

Festival de Cannes

Vencedores 2015 


O Festival de Cinema de Cannes realizou-se entre 13 e 24 de Maio na cidade de Cannes, por onde passaram mas mais diversas celebridades do mundo do cinema. Abaixo, ficam os vencedores de 2015.

LONGAS-METRAGENS

Palma de Ouro
Dheepan, realizado por Jacques Audiard
(França)

Grande Prémio
Saul Fia (Son of Saul), realizado por László Nemes
(Hungria)

Prémio de Realização
HOU Hsiao-Hsien, por Nie Yinniang (The Assassin)
(Taiwan, China, Hong Kong e França)

Prémio do Argumento 
Michel Franco, por Chronic
(México)

Prémio de Interpretação Feminina
Emmanuelle Bercot, por Mon Roi, de Maiwenn
(França)

Rooney Mara, por Carol, de Todd Haynes
(Reino Unido e E.U.A.)
 
Prémio de Interpretação Masculina
Vincent Lindon, por La Loi Du Marché, de Stéphane Brizé
(França)

Prémio do Júri
The Lobster, realizado por Yorgos Lanthimos
(Irlanda, Reino Unido, França, Grécia, Holanda)

CURTAS-METRAGENS

Palme d'Or de Curta-Metragem 
Waves '98, realizado por Ely Dagher
(Líbano, Qatar)

Arthur C. Clarke Award

Vencedor 2015

Station Eleven, de Emily St. John Mandel venceu o prémio Arthur C. Clarke Award que premeia o melhor romance de ficção científica publicado no ano anterior. O prémio foi apresentado numa cerimónia numa livraria em Londes perante uma audiência de escritores de ficção cinetífica, editores, académicos e fãs.

Station Eleven

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. 

One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.

Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm is a line from Star Trek: “Because survival is insufficient.” But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.

Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

terça-feira, 26 de maio de 2015

Uptown Funk

Música do Dia

"Uptown Funk", originalmente de Mark Ronson e Bruno Mars, é uma cover feita pelas bandas Against The Current e Set It Off. A verdade é que a música ficou muito boa nas vozes dos vocalistas das duas bandas. Gostei mais da voz dela aqui do que nas músicas originais da banda dela.

segunda-feira, 25 de maio de 2015

Kate Winslet

Momento Sexy (23)


A extraordinária Kate Winslet ficou conhecida pelo Titanic (1997), mas só ganharia o Óscar, depois de várias nomeações, por The Reader (2008). Sense and Sensibility (1995), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) e Revolutionary Road estão entre os filmes nos quais teve melhores desempenhos. Mais recentemente participou em dois dos filmes da trilogia The Divergent Series: Divergent (2014) e Insurgent (2015).

domingo, 24 de maio de 2015

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (70)

But love, he said, love was a fragile blossom; love was a delicate crystal; love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders; thirty centuries of prewar society taught that love was one thing that could last to the grave and even beyond and if he had been born instead of hatched he would know that without being told!

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

sábado, 23 de maio de 2015

Feira do Livro de Lisboa


A 85.ª Edição da Feira do Livro vai decorrer de 28 de Maio a 14 de Junho no Parque Eduardo VII. Para as pessoas que adoram literatura é mais uma oportunidade de encontrar livros a preços mais acessíveis. Como sempre, a Feira do Livro pede voluntários para trabalharem durante duas semanas nos vários stands, alguns de editoras bastante conhecidas e já estabelecidas no mercado. Já seria altura de pensarem em pagar às pessoas que trabalham durante essas duas semanas. Podia ser que assim elas fossem mais simpáticas no atendimento ao público.

A Feira do Livro de Lisboa está aberta de segunda a quinta-feira das 12h30 às 23h, às sexta-feiras e vésperas de feriados das 12h30 às 24h, aos sábados das 11h às 24h e aos domingos e feriados das 11h às 23h.

O Prazer da Leitura (70)

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

Night Film, Marisha Pessl

segunda-feira, 18 de maio de 2015

Bad Blood

Música do Dia

Primeira coisa que eu tenho a dizer é que eu gosto da Tayler Swift e apesar de as suas músicas parassarem na rádio até à exaustão, até gosto de algumas. Há muita coisa errada com este vídeo, Bada Blood, mas gosto da parte em que se inspirou no filme The Fifth Element (1997), do facto de estar entre a acção e algo quase de ficção científica, mas a maquilhagem está muito pesada e os efeitos especiais são péssimos. Ah, e tem imensa gente conhecida, a Taylor esmerou-se nessa parte!

domingo, 17 de maio de 2015

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (69)

One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

sábado, 16 de maio de 2015

O Prazer da Leitura (69)

It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.

Night Film, Marisha Pessl

sexta-feira, 15 de maio de 2015

John W. Campbell Award

Nomeações 2015


O Centro de Estudos de Ficção Científica da Universidade do Kansas anunciou os finalistas do Prémio John W. Campbell que elege o melhor romance do ano. O vencedor será anunciado em Lawrence no Kansas, na Campbell Conference de 2015, entre os dias 11 e 14 de Junho.

The Race, Nina Allen (Newcon Press)
The Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
The Peripherical, William Gibson (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
Afterparty, Daryl Gregory (Tor)
Europe In Autumn, Dave Hutchinson (Solaris)
Wolves, Simon Ings (Gollancz)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu (Tor)
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
Defenders, Will McIntosh (Orbit)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North (Redhook)
The Bees, Laline Paull (Ecco)
Bête, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor)
The Martian, Andy Weir (Broadway Books)
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals)
Echopraxia, Peter Watts (Tor)

Imaginando FC (22)

Theodore Sturgeon Award

Nomeações 2015


O prémio Theodore Sturgeon elege o melhor conto de ficção científica publicado no ano anterior. O vencedor será anunciado no Campbell Conference Awards Banquet, entre 11 e 14 de Junho, na Universidade do Kansas em Lawrence no Kansas. Abaixo, ficam os nomeados:

"Childfinder", Octavia E. Butler (Unexpected Stories)
"The Cryptic Age", Robert Reed (Asimov's Dec 2014)
"The Fifth Dragon", Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)
"Herd Immunity", Tananarive Due (The End is Now)
"A Hotel in Antarctica", Geoffrey A. Landis (Hieroglyph)
"In Her Eyes", Seth Chambers (F&SF Jan/Feb 2014)
"The Man Who Sold the Moon", Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future)
"Lady With Fox", Gregory Benford (Carbide Tipped Pens)
"The Lightness of the Movement", Pat MacEwen (F&SF Mar/Apr 2014)
"The Regular", Ken Liu (Upgraded)
"Shatterdown", Suzanne Palmer (Asimov's Jun 2014)
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
"We Are the Cloud", Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed Sep 2014)
"When it Ends, He Catches Her", Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction 26 Sep 2014)
Yesterday's Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
“The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph: Stories an - See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/05/2015-campbell-and-sturgeon-awards-finalists/#sthash.7TkJ64Q2.dpuf

quinta-feira, 14 de maio de 2015

Prémios Shirley Jackson

Nomeações 2014


As nomeações para os Prémios Shirley Jackson, relativas ao ano de 2014, foram anunciadas. Os prémios reconhecem o legado da autora e homenageiam obras excepcionais da literatura de suspense psicológico, horror e dark fantasy. Os vencedores serão anunciados a 12 de Julho na Readercon 26 em Burlington, Massachusetts.

Romance
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer
Bird Box, Josh Malerman
Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes
Confessions, Kanae Minato
The Lesser Dead, Christopher Buehlman
The Unquiet House, Alison Littlewood

Novella
The Beauty, Aliya Whiteley
Ceremony of Flies, Kate Jonez
The Good Shabti, Robert Sharp
The Mothers of Voorhisville, Mary Rickert
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory

Novelette
“The Devil in America”, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com, April 2014)
“The End of the End of Everything”, Dale Bailey (Tor.com, April 2014)
“The Husband Stitch”, Carmen Maria Machado (Granta)
“Newspaper Heart”, Stephen Volk (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
“Office at Night”, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt (Walker Art Center)
“The Quiet Room”, V H Leslie (Shadows & Tall Trees 2014)

Ficção Curta
“Candy Girl”, Chikodili Emelumadu (Apex Magazine)
“The Dogs Home”, Alison Littlewood (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories)
“The Fisher Queen”, Alyssa Wong (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
“Shay Corsham Worsted”, Garth Nix (Fearful Symmetries)
“Wendigo Nights”, Siobhan Carroll (Fearful Symmetries)

Colecção de Autor Individual
After the People Lights Have Gone Off, Stephen Graham Jones
Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales, Simon Strantzas
Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Helen Marshall
They Do The Same Things Different There, Robert Shearman
Unseaming, Mike Allen

Antologia Editada
Letters to Lovecraft, editado por Jesse Bullington
Fearful Symmetries, editado por Ellen Datlow
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, editado por Mark Morris
Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, editado por Michael Kelly
The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron, editado por Ross E. Lockhart e Justin Steele

domingo, 10 de maio de 2015

Bram Stoker Awards

Vencedores 2015


Já foram anunciados os vencedores dos Bram Stoker Awards. A Horror Writers Association premeou o que melhor se publicou no ano anterior a nível do horror. Os vencedores foram anunciados na World Horror Convention a 9 de Maio de 2015 em Atlanta, na Georgia. Abaixo, ficam os vencedores.

Superior Achievement in a Novel
Vencedor: Steve Rasnic Tem, Blood Kin (Solaris Books) 
Craig DiLouie, Suffer the Children (Gallery Books of Simon & Schuster)
Patrick Freivald, Jade Sky (JournalStone)
Chuck Palahniuk, Beautiful You (Jonathan Cape, Vintage/Penguin Random House UK)
Christopher Rice, The Vines (47North)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel
Vencedor: Maria Alexander, Mr. Wicker (Raw Dog Screaming Press) 
J.D. Barker, Forsaken (Hampton Creek Press)
David Cronenberg, Consumed (Scribner)
Michael Knost, Return of the Mothman (Woodland Press)
Josh Malerman, Bird Box (Harper Collins)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Vencedor: John Dixon, Phoenix Island (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books) 
Jake Bible, Intentional Haunting (Permuted Press)
Kami Garcia, Unmarked (The Legion Series Book 2) (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Tonya Hurley, Passionaries (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Peter Adam Salomon, All Those Broken Angels (Flux)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Vencedores: Jonathan Maberry, Bad Blood (Dark Horse Books) 
Emily Carroll, Through the Woods (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
Joe Hill, Locke and Key, Vol. 6 (IDW Publishing)
Joe R. Lansdale and Daniele Serra, I Tell You It’s Love (Short, Scary Tales Publications)
Paul Tobin, The Witcher (Dark Horse Books)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Vencedores: Joe R. Lansdale, “Fishing for Dinosaurs” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
Taylor Grant, “The Infected” (Cemetery Dance #71) (Cemetery Dance)
Eric J. Guignard, “Dreams of a Little Suicide” (Hell Comes to Hollywood II: Twenty-Two More Tales of Tinseltown Terror (Volume 2)) (Big Time Books)
Jonathan Maberry, “Three Guys Walk into a Bar” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)
Joe McKinney, “Lost and Found” (Limbus, Inc., Book II) (JournalStone)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
Vencedores: Usman T. Malik, “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards) e Rena Mason, “Ruminations” (Qualia Nous) (Written Backwards)
Hal Bodner, “Hot Tub” (Hell Comes to Hollywood II: Twenty-Two More Tales of Tinseltown Terror (Volume 2)) (Big Time Books)
Sydney Leigh, “Baby’s Breath” (Bugs: Tales That Slither, Creep, and Crawl) (Great Old Ones Publishing)
John Palisano, “Splinterette” (Widowmakers: A Benefit Anthology of Dark Fiction) (Widowmaker Press)
Damien Angelica Walters, “The Floating Girls: A Documentary” (Jamais Vu, Issue Three) (Post Mortem Press)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Vencedor: Jennifer Kent, The Babadook (Causeway Films)
Scott M. Gimple, The Walking Dead: “The Grove”, episode 4:14 (AMC)
John Logan, Penny Dreadful: “Séance” (Desert Wolf Productions/Neal Street Productions)
Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: “Listen” (British Broadcasting Corporation)
James Wong American Horror Story: Coven: “The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks” (FX Network)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Vencedor: Ellen Datlow, Fearful Symmetries (ChiZine Publications)
Michael Bailey, Qualia Nous (Written Backwards)
Jason V Brock, A Darke Phantastique (Cycatrix Press)
Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, and Dennis Widmyer, Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press)
Brett J. Talley, Limbus, Inc., Book II (JournalStone)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Vencedor: Lucy Snyder, Soft Apocalypses (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Stephen Graham Jones, After the People Lights Have Gone Off (Dark House Press)
John R. Little, Little by Little (Bad Moon Books)
Helen Marshall, Gifts for the One Who Comes After (ChiZine Publications)
John F.D. Taff, The End in All Beginnings (Grey Matter Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Vencedor: Lucy Snyder, Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide (Post Mortem Press)
Jason V Brock, Disorders of Magnitude (Rowman & Littlefield)
S.T. Joshi, Lovecraft and a World in Transition (Hippocampus Press)
Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (Liveright Publishing Corp., a division of W.W. Norton & Co.)
Joe Mynhardt and Emma Audsley, Horror 101: The Way Forward (Crystal Lake Publishing)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Vencedor: Tom Piccirilli, Forgiving Judas (Crossroad Press)
Robert Payne Cabeen, Fearworms: Selected Poems (Fanboy Comics)
Corrinne De Winter and Alessandro Manzetti, Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria)
Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo, Sweet Poison (Dark Renaissance Books)
Stephanie Wytovich, Mourning Jewelry (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (68)

So here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of our skill in building bridges on worlds where the only fluid is an occasional standing pool of liquid helium.

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

Deslumbrante Fantasia (22)

sábado, 9 de maio de 2015

O Prazer da Leitura (68)

Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

Night Film, Marisha Pessl

sexta-feira, 8 de maio de 2015

Locus Awards

Nomeações 2015


A Locus Magazine anunciou os nomeados para os prémios Locus relativos ao ano anterior. Os vencedores serão anubciados no Locus Awards Weekend em Seatle, em Washington, no fim-de-semana de 26 a 28 de Junho de 2015.

Science Fiction Novel
The Peripheral, William Gibson (Putnam; Viking UK)
Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
Lock In, John Scalzi (Tor; Gollancz)
Annihilation/Authority/Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)

Fantasy Novel
The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
Steles of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Tor)
City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett (Broadway; Jo Fletcher)
The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman (Viking; Arrow 2015)
The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (Angry Robot US)

Young Adult Book
Half a King, Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)
The Doubt Factory, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
Waistcoats & Weaponry, Gail Carriger (Little, Brown; Atom)
Empress of the Sun, Ian McDonald (Jo Fletcher; Pyr)
Clariel, Garth Nix (Harper; Hot Key; Allen & Unwin)

First Novel

Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Aqueduct)
A Darkling Sea, James L. Cambias (Tor)
The Clockwork Dagger, Beth Cato (Harper Voyager)
The Memory Garden, Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)
The Emperor’s Blades, Brian Staveley (Tor; Tor UK)

Novella
“The Man Who Sold the Moon”, Cory Doctorow (Hieroglyph)
We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
“The Regular”, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
“The Lightning Tree”, Patrick Rothfuss (Rogues)

Novelette
“Tough Times All Over”, Joe Abercrombie (Rogues)
“The Hand Is Quicker”, Elizabeth Bear (The Book of Silverberg)
“Memorials”, Aliette de Bodard (Asimov’s 1/14)
“The Jar of Water”, Ursula K. Le Guin (Tin House #62)
“A Year and a Day in Old Theradane”, Scott Lynch (Rogues)

Short Story
“Covenant”, Elizabeth Bear (Hieroglyph)
“The Dust Queen”, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity)
“The Truth About Owls”, Amal El-Mohtar (Kaleidoscope)
“In Babelsberg”, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
“Ogres of East Africa”, Sofia Samatar (Long Hidden)

Anthology
The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-first Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. (St. Martin’s Press)
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, Rose Fox & Daniel José Older, eds. (Crossed Genres)
Rogues, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, ed. (Bantam; Titan)
Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed. (Solaris US; Solaris UK)
The Time Traveler’s Almanac, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer, eds. (Head of Zeus; Tor)

Collection
Questionable Practices, Eileen Gunn (Small Beer)
The Collected Short Fiction Volume One: The Man Who Made Models, R.A. Lafferty (Centipede)
Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (Tor)
Academic Exercises, K.J. Parker (Subterranean)
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Nine: The Millennium Express, Robert Silverberg (Subterranean; Gateway)

Magazine
Asimov’s
Clarkesworld
F&SF
Lightspeed
Tor.com


Publisher
Angry Robot
Orbit
Small Beer
Subterranean
Tor


Editor
John Joseph Adams
Ellen Datlow
Gardner Dozois
Jonathan Strahan
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Artist
Jim Burns
John Picacio
Shaun Tan
Charles Vess
Michael Whelan

Non-Fiction
Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan Eller (University of Illinois Press)
Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Harry Harrison (Tor)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore (Knopf)
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better: 1948-1988, William H. Patterson, Jr. (Tor)
What Makes This Book So Great, Jo Walton (Tor; Corsair 2015)

Art Book
Jim Burns, The Art of Jim Burns: Hyperluminal (Titan)
The Art of Neil Gaiman, Hayley Campbell (Harper Design)
Spectrum 21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, John Fleskes, ed. (Flesk)
Brian & Wendy Froud, Brian Froud’s Faeries’ Tales (Abrams)
The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era, Ron Miller (Zenith)

domingo, 3 de maio de 2015

Penny Dreadful

Séries Fantásticas

Penny Dreaful (Showtime)
2ª Temporada
Com: Eva Green (Vanessa Ives), Timothy Dalton (Sir Malcolm Murray), Harry Treadaway (Dr. Victor Frankenstein), Josh Hartnett (Ethan Chandler), Rory Kinnear (The Creature), Billie Piper (Brona Croft/Lily Frankenstein), Reeve Carney (Dorian Gray), Danny Sapani (Sembene), Helen McCrory (Evelyn Poole), Simon Russell Beale (Ferdinand Lyle), Patti LuPone (Dr. Seward), Wes Studi (Kaetenay).
Estreia: 3 de Maio de 2016 no E.U.A.
Portugal: 25 de Maio de 2016 no TV Séries.

Depois da fabulosa primeira temporada, a Showtime traz de volta Penny Dreadful, uma série de horror criada por John Logan e produzida por Logan e Sam Mendes. A série de horror com sobrenatural à mistura junta algumas das personagens mais icónicas e aterradoras da literatura, como o Dr. Frankenstein (Frankenstein de Mary Shelley, 1818), Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray de Oscar Wilde, 1890), o Dr. Henry Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde de Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886) e o algumas personagens de Dracula (de Bram Stoker, 1897) como a Mina Harker e o Abraham Van Helsing, em Londres, na época Vitoriana. As histórias aterradoras destas personagens icónicas juntam-se às dos protagonistas, Vanessa Ives, Sir Malcolm Murray e Ethan Chandler. O título da série deriva do nome pejorativo que davam às publicações baratas de teor escabroso e sensacional que eram publicadas no século XIX na Grã-Bretanha.

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (67)

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

sábado, 2 de maio de 2015

O Prazer da Leitura (67)

As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Night Film, Marisha Pessl

Stand by Me

Música do Dia

Creio que a primeira vez que ouvi esta música foi quando vi o filme Stand by Me (1986), em Portugal foi traduzido como Conta Comigo, filme que sempre adorei. "Stand by me" foi escrita por Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber e Mike Stoller em 1961. A música já foi alvo de dezenas de covers e é a canção mais conhecida do cantor Ben E. King, que faleceu a 30 de Abril de 2015. Embora esta seja a sua canção mais conhecida, o cantor deixou inúmeros álbuns e um contributo inestimável para a música R&B e soul americana. Penso já ter deixado uma versão desta música em "As músicas da minha vida" e agora deixo-a aqui novamente.

sexta-feira, 1 de maio de 2015

Séries - Estreias e Regressos

A nível nacional o destaque vai para a segunda parte da primeira temporada de Outlander no TVSéries, a estreia da segunda temporada de Penny Dreadful também no TVSéries (o canal estreia logo as séries, só é pena ser pago), a estreia da Wayward Pines na FOX e a quinta temporada de Pretty Little Liars no AXN White.

A nível internacional o destaque vai exactamente para as mesmas séries: Penny Dreadful com a segunda temporada no canal Showtime, Outlander com  a segunda parte da primeira temporada no Starz e Wayward Pines com grande destaque no FOX; e ainda para Aquarius da NBC e Between e Grace and Frankie do Netflix.

Estreias em Portugal

Pretty Little Liars - Pequenas Mentirosas (ABC Family)
5ª Temporada
Domingo, 3 de Maio de 2015 no AXN White

TURN: Washington's Spies - Turn: Espiões de Washington (AMC)
1ª Temporada
Terça-Feira, 5 de Maio de 2015 no AMC Portugal

Rush (USA Network)
1ª Temporada
Quinta-Feira, 7 de Maio de 2015 no Fox Life

Silicon Valley (HBO)
2ª Temporada
Quinta-Feira, 14 de Maio de 2015 no TV Séries

Veep (HBO)
4ª Temporada
Quinta-Feira, 14 de Maio de 2015 no TVSéries

Covert Affairs - Agente Dupla (USA Network)
5ª Temporada
Quinta-Feira, 14 de Maio de 2015 no Fox Crime

Wayward Pines (Fox)
1ª Temporada
Quinta-Feira, 14 de Maio de 2015 no FOX

Twisted (ABC Family)
1ª Temporada
Sexta-Feira, 15 de Maio de 2015 no FOX Life

Royal Pains - Mágoas de Grandeza (USA Network)
6ª Temporada
Sexta-Feira, 15 de Maio de 2015 no AXN White

Outlander (Starz)
2ª Parte da 1ª Temporada
Domingo, 17 de Maio no TVSéries

Bitten (Space)
2ª Temporada
Quinta-Feira, 21 de Maio de 2015 no MOV

Penny Dreadful (Showtime)
2ª Temporada
Segunda-Feira, 25 de Maio no TVSéries

The Dead Zone (USA Network)
6ª Temporada
Terça-Feira, 26 de Maio de 2015 no MOV

Estreias Internacionais

Penny Dreadful (Showtime)
2ª Temporada
Sexta-Feira, 3 de Maio de 2015

Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
ESTREIA
Quarta- Feira, 8 de Maio de 2015

Girl Meets World (Disney)
2ª Temporada
Segunda-Feira, 11 de Maio de 2015

Wayward Pines (FOX)
ESTREIA
Quinta-Feira, 14 de Maio de 2015

Between (Netflix)
ESTREIA
Quinta-Feira, 21 de Maio de 2015

Aquarius (NBC)
ESTREIA
Quinta-Feira, 28 de Maio de 2015

Halt and Catch Fire (AMC)
2ª Temporada
Domingo, 31 de Maio de 2015