Read Mononoke Hime, Hayao Miyazaki’s 1980 predecessor to Princess Mononoke
While the film Mononoke Hime (known here as Princess Mononoke) served as Hayao Miyazaki’s breakthrough in the Western world, it was preceeded by another Mononoke Hime. Rather than a film, this version is a painted fairy tale storybook about a giant cat, a loyal daughter and a duke possessed by a demon. However, it retains…
RIP Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl’s Moving Castle
Prolific fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones has passed away at the age of 76. She had been battling lung cancer for the past two years. Born in 1934, Jones studied at Oxford and attended lectures by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. She published her first novel, Changeover, in 1970. Jones is best-known for her 1986…
An introduction to pulp fiction in Europe before 1914
The history of science fiction in America and Great Britain has been the subject of a number of popular and academic studies, and in general is well known, at least among science fiction fans. But the history of European science fiction, defined in this case as the countries of continental Europe, the Scandinavian countries, Russia,…
How a dark science fiction book became America’s #1 movie: The screenwriter of Limitless talks to the original novel’s author
Leslie Dixon is the screenwriter/producer who made the novel The Dark Fields happen as the film Limitless. In this article from the Mulholland Books blog, Leslie and Dark Fields author Alan Glynn discuss the project’s long road from book to screen. And everything in between. Leslie Dixon: Alan, my attempts to get this movie up…