As a UCLA student I was brought in for a test screening of Alien 3 (they got students all the time), which I thought was terrible, and I haven't watched the sequels since.
@kurtsh Alien 3 was at Fox. But I saw that Jacob's Ladder showing at Ackerman too!! Man, good times, and crazy movies.
Ackerman was such a vibrant exciting place then. So much going on all day and night. Now it's all at the dorms, and the building closes down early evening!
@artair@virtualbri I know all this. But you only get away with it once. As time went on more and more of the xenomorph was shown (and I've seen a photo of it sitting offstage reading a magazine, as I recall). But then everyone wanted dark sets for no good reason. With recent incarnations of Star Trek (e.g. Picard) being particular offenders. Yeah, @virtualbri already knows my feelings about this ...
I am a Nebula Award finalist, and the Nebula conference is this week. My book, THE INN AT THE AMETHYST LANTERN, is nominated for the Andre Norton Nebula Award for younger fiction (young adult in this case). So what's the book about? I've got you covered: https://jendiagammon.com/2024/03/18/about-the-inn-at-the-amethyst-lantern/
@jendiagammon For those looking at the post above, I just started reading "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" (finally) and it is a really a lot of fun! A very imaginative world with unique visuals. It has especially fantastic use of colors - I feel like the images in my mind are vividly painted as I read. I am a big #Solarpunk fan but this is my first #Lunarpunk work and I'm quite digging the vibe. Many more things to say but will save them for when I'm finished!
I had to purchase my first historic fanzine for its Clifford D. Simak interview — this volume wasn’t digitized in the various online fanzine repositories. #scifi#sciencefiction
I had no idea that race, politics, and the impact of the Brown vs. The Board of Education (1952) and the Southern Manifesto (1956) in the South was such a prominent theme of Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon (1959).