Wednesday, March 19, 2003
The day before a road trip is always insane. Today is no exception. Thryn's out running errands and I'm trying to take care of things that can't wait until Monday morning.
I had to get a biography and few lines about the inspiration for "Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea" off to Steve Jones (for Best New Horror 14), as well as an rtf. of the story itself, after I'd edited it to make the spelling British ("gray" to "grey," etc.) instead of American. That's taken up the last hour and a half. I need to e-mail "Alabaster" to the people at Camelot Books. I need to decide what I'll be reading Friday morning at ICFA. Probably a bit from Low Red Moon. They've scheduled me for a morning slot, which isn't a good thing. I've never had to do a morning reading before. I've only done a few morning panels. To say that I'm not a "morning person" would be a grave understatement. I expect I'll mudder blearily through the reading, to however many half-asleep people come to hear. Sounds like fun. It doesn't help that we don't expect to reach Ft. Lauderdale until late tomorrow night.
For those still interested in the Save Farscape campaign, there's a nice article up on SaveFarscape.com (Warning: it does have spoilers). It includes bits of an interview with Ben Browder, and he seems fairly optimistic about the ultimate survival of the series beyond the Sci-Fi Channel's cancellation. And Friday is, of course, the last episode of Season Four, and the last episode of the series for the time being. 8 and 12, ET/PT, the aptly-titled "Bad Timing." It's not the end, but it's all we get for now (I'll be in frelling Florida, of course, and most likely won't see the episode until Monday night). Meanwhile, in the end, I was somewhat disappointed with Sci-Fi's Children of Dune. It impressed me at the start, because it was truly a gorgeous production (though I'd have preferred to have seen less blue screening and more location shooting) and I'm a sucker for eye candy. However, the screenplay was horribly confusing, the casting was so poor that a lot of the characters seemed to blend one into the other, indistinguishable, and it was definitely a mistake to try to squeeze both Dune Messiah and Children of Dune into one six-hour tv mini-series. I did enjoy seeing Alice Krige. Susan Sarandon's performance was a little too campy for my taste. I hope that Proyas' adaptation of Riverworld comes off better.
Back to the chaos . . .
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