The cover for Warren Ellis’s new book, Gun Machine. Probably my most anticipated book of 2013.
Happy forty-fourth birthday to the actual internet jesus, Warren Ellis. Pay your respects, children of the Tumblr.
Warren Ellis reviewed the first issue of SAGA and holy balls you guys I am psyched. It’s so unfair that I have to wait six weeks to read this issue. Here’s what he said:
First things first: this opening issue of SAGA is the first chapter of what will clearly be a verylongform sf serial about war and politics, magic and science and love and sex. The clue is kind of in the title. Brian, an extremely gifted author, has written a clever and charming script, and Fiona Staples, whom I’ve previously seen very little by, is demonstrably a very intelligent artist who creates warm and characterful performances for her actors while spinning out perfectly weighted storytelling that puts me in mind of experts like Steve Dillon. It’s a little like listening to an orchestra tuning up and running through the early phrases of a big symphony, sounding the main themes and hinting at the complex beauty to come.
Romeo and Juliet up there are Marko and Alana, from either side of a war that has no good side. And what they did – having her umbilical gnawed off there – was something that apparently never should have happened. And it’s her story (or will be):
Because, you see, the book is shot through with panels like this, and lettering like this, as if from a children’s book. And that’s the baby’s narrative.
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Warren Ellis announces new book deal at Mulholland Books.
It has been too long since the fun Crooked Little Vein and I’m happy to see there are more books on the way.
That Warren Ellis documentary has a new trailer and they’ve started up a Kickstarter page. Which has already made its goal, but I’m sure they could use some extra cash to finish the product. I cannot fucking wait to see this thing.
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts Trailer. I love the work that SeqArt is doing these days with these documentaries. Last year we saw the premiere of a Grant Morrison documentary, which will be instrumental in my Masters thesis, and this year we not only have this documentary but many books analyzing the career of Warren Ellis.
Ellis has been one of those writers who has captivated me in the medium that pretty much anything discussing his career is bound to be something I’ll devour.
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Science fiction is no longer ahead on the trail, throwing clues to the future back at us. When author William Gibson writes novels today, he writes about the present. No more console cowboys zipping around cyberspace, no more digital pop idols printing themselves out into the real world. That said, his latest trilogy — the “Bigend” books — are notionally set in the contemporary world, yet there remains a sense of… not-presentness. Situations, characters and places seem a second out of sync. The likes of Pattern Recognition’s coolhunter Cayce Pollard, or viral-advertising exec Hubertus Bigend (from Spook Country and Zero History), remain plausible, without quite having the texture of solid reality to them. The more you look at them, the more you realise they’re speculations. Hubertus Bigend is a novum, a science-fictional creation. But the prose is set at a point less than five minutes from now, which is why we don’t recognise it as such and go along with the instruction that it’s conventional fiction.
Warren Ellis on William Gibson and science-fiction at Wired. Formerly, the kind of science fiction that I thought was Very Good Science-Fiction was in the presentation of a world that is so very clearly not ours but still has remnants of our current lives happening in that world. Battlestar Galactica is an example of this. But the kind of work that Warren and William are currently engaged in is the kind of stuff that has become more appealing to me, all of it with this idea of some truly mind-blowing shit happening five minutes from now.
This is the kind of science fiction that is happening right now as we speak. This WikiLeaks situation truly is science fiction and the kind of stuff Gibson started writing about nearly twenty years ago. The idea of a cyber-revolution and free form freedom of speech causing governments to shit themselves in reaction has never happened before and is quite literally science fiction becoming fact right now. For me (be advised: I’m no anarchist or anything like that), this is wonderful.
What these people did — and what my long-suffering agent, Angela, did — was make my daughter’s life better. I’ll always be grateful to them for that. That’s what this film means to me. Whatever happens next, happens. This is the good part, the part I take away with me from the RED experience. Please go and see RED when it comes out in your area. This horse eats like a fucking whale, and I’m on the hook for its feed money for the next couple of decades.
