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Bangkok author's detective novels optioned by Keanu

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2008-04-08 17:13:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Calvino detective novels optioned for film production by Keanu Reeves and Michael Clayton producer Steve Samuels The writer of 21 novels, Moore is one of the most recognized of the Bangkok noir authors. His Calvino novels, of which there are nine, fictionalize the underworld of Bangkok's night-time haunts, foreigners living on the edge and,...
 
Tags: novels, keanu, calvino series, series, calvino novels, bangkok, calvino, moore, keanu reeves
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: What Purpose Does Short Fiction Serve?

2008-02-13 00:28:22 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...Calvino, JG Ballard, Dino Buzatti, Angela Carter, Christopher Fowler, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Peter F. Hamilton, Stephen Baxter, Cynthia Ozick, Peter Carey, Paul Di Filippo, Jay Lake, Ian Watson, Ali Smith ...too many to reference. It would probably be a different list tomorrow Writing a great short story is a near-magical act. The...
 
Tags: short, short fiction serve, short form length, short story writer, short science fiction, science fiction, offers, short story offers, short-fiction readers
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: Which Authors and Books Have Most Influenced Your Writing?

2008-10-15 00:28:00 by John in SF Signal
 
...Calvino, Jeanette Winterson (GUT Symmetries, Art & Lies), Jeff Vandermeer (City of Saints and Madment), Theodora Goss (In the Forest of Forgetting), A.S. Byatt (Posession), Jorge Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, Lewis Carroll, Jack Kerouac (Dharma Bums), Sonya Taaffe, Paul Verhelst (Tonguecat), and Virginia Woolf (The Waves). John Crowley's Little,...
 
Tags: books, science fiction romance, science fiction, stories, recent fantasy, fantasy stories, recent, fiction, recent books
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books Worth Reading Twice

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2008-11-12 00:29:00 by John in SF Signal
...Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and Crowley's Little, Big . But in my forties, I found no time for rereading novels, and now that my fifties have begun, I doubt that I'm likely to again Short stories, on the other hand ... those are my true love. And there are a number of them which I reread almost every year. Chief among these...
 
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MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2008 (Part 2)

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2008-12-11 01:28:46 by John in SF Signal
...Calvino The 10 Best Science Fiction Films Forbidden Planet The Road Warrior Blade Runner Dr. Strangelove 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Charly The Terminator Them No award Yes, I saw the Star Wars and Star Trek movies The 10 Best Fantasy Films Field of Dreams Harvey The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit Portrait of Jennie Something Wicked...
 
Tags: films, genre, grindhouse films, science fiction films, science fiction, science fiction film, books, pixar films, fantasy films
 
 
 
 
 
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