Photo: Trilith Just outside of Atlanta, there’s a new town springing to life. It’s a place many Atlantans, even those working in the area’s booming film and television industry, might not have heard of. I’m talking about Trilith, a 235 acre ‘live/work/play’ New Urbanist township being developed by Trilith studios on studio property. One of the first things I learned about Trilith was that Chick-Fil-a CEO and Atlanta luminary Dan Cathy was instrumental in envisioning the community. The liberal arts major in me couldn’t help but remember “I Bought a Little City”, the short story by the postmodernist author Donald Barthelme. It tells the story of a well-to-do philanthropist who attempts to create a perfect city, only to find that he might have gotten more than he bargained for. It starts, “So I bought a little city and told everybody that nobody had to move,...
- 11/29/2020
- by Trent Kinnucan
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Image Source: Chandler Klang Smith
Chandler Klang Smith's debut novel is unlike anything you've ever read. The Sky is Yours transcends the boundaries of genre, transporting the reader to a burnt-out dystopian future in which twin dragons circle the skies tormenting an urban metropolis, and a Jane Austen-esque heroine, a futuristic YouTube burnout, and a feral ingenue raised on a mountain of trash find themselves in a love triangle that threatens to tear the very city they live in apart. Here's the thing, though: as you travel through the action-adventure, coming-of-age, snarky-yet-sincere story, it's damn near impossible to pull yourself away.
Combining a handful of different narrative techniques that serve to flesh out the inner lives of the strikingly original characters, Smith's prose is conducive to a thoroughly obsessive-compulsive read, one that will leave you thinking about the world you just inhabited long after you turn the last page.
Chandler Klang Smith's debut novel is unlike anything you've ever read. The Sky is Yours transcends the boundaries of genre, transporting the reader to a burnt-out dystopian future in which twin dragons circle the skies tormenting an urban metropolis, and a Jane Austen-esque heroine, a futuristic YouTube burnout, and a feral ingenue raised on a mountain of trash find themselves in a love triangle that threatens to tear the very city they live in apart. Here's the thing, though: as you travel through the action-adventure, coming-of-age, snarky-yet-sincere story, it's damn near impossible to pull yourself away.
Combining a handful of different narrative techniques that serve to flesh out the inner lives of the strikingly original characters, Smith's prose is conducive to a thoroughly obsessive-compulsive read, one that will leave you thinking about the world you just inhabited long after you turn the last page.
- 5/28/2018
- by Chelsea Adelaine Hassler
- Popsugar.com
A few years ago, we shared a short sci-fi film with you called Noon, which was picked up by 20th Century Fox to turn into a feature film. It is a great film and today we have a new one to share with you from that project's creator, Kasra Farahani.
The film is called Concerning the Bodyguard, and it’s a masterfully made film that focuses on views and loyalties of a bodyguard and it tells the story of “power, conspiracy, and the overthrow of a dictator in an unknown Near Eastern country.” Here’s the full synopsis:
Based on the short story of the same name by Donald Barthelme (originally published in the New Yorker Magazine in 1978), and read by author Salman Rushdie, “Concerning the Bodyguard” is a story about power, conspiracy, and the overthrow of a dictator in an unknown Near Eastern country. With Salman Rushdie’s reading...
The film is called Concerning the Bodyguard, and it’s a masterfully made film that focuses on views and loyalties of a bodyguard and it tells the story of “power, conspiracy, and the overthrow of a dictator in an unknown Near Eastern country.” Here’s the full synopsis:
Based on the short story of the same name by Donald Barthelme (originally published in the New Yorker Magazine in 1978), and read by author Salman Rushdie, “Concerning the Bodyguard” is a story about power, conspiracy, and the overthrow of a dictator in an unknown Near Eastern country. With Salman Rushdie’s reading...
- 2/21/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Rapture of Unreason
“I grew up around Christians who believed in a seven day creation, preached the reality of Hell and Judgement, and railed against the lie that was evolution. They were also, for the most part, racists and homophobes… And the only difference between them and me was that I had a father who shoved a science fiction paperback into my pre-teen hands and ordered me to read it. After all, it’s pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you’re a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.”
– Lou Anders, Bowing to the Future
So the 21st of May came and went without a whiff of the Rapture, nary a hint of Moby Douche, the Great White Fail, breaching the firmament above. No star called Wormwood fallen from the sky, turning a third of the waters to tasty absinthe. No angels treading...
“I grew up around Christians who believed in a seven day creation, preached the reality of Hell and Judgement, and railed against the lie that was evolution. They were also, for the most part, racists and homophobes… And the only difference between them and me was that I had a father who shoved a science fiction paperback into my pre-teen hands and ordered me to read it. After all, it’s pretty hard to be prejudiced against blacks and gays when you’re a-okay with Klingons and the Green Men of Mars.”
– Lou Anders, Bowing to the Future
So the 21st of May came and went without a whiff of the Rapture, nary a hint of Moby Douche, the Great White Fail, breaching the firmament above. No star called Wormwood fallen from the sky, turning a third of the waters to tasty absinthe. No angels treading...
- 6/9/2011
- by Hal Duncan
- Boomtron
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