This weekend Balticon 45 takes over the Marriott’s Hunt Valley Inn in Baltimore, as it does every memorial day weekend. Ben Bova is the Guest of Honor, and they are doing the world premiere of Ninjas vs. Vampires amongst the other fun; day passes are still available and there is a Twitter Hashtag to follow. Also this weekend, Syfy is running a Star Trek Movie Marathon for those who want to into couch potato mode.
I found this one interesting, and thought you might as well.
This trailer for Robert J. Sawyer’s book The Terminal Experiment is a little hard for me to follow (since I don’t speak Hungarian), but is quite nicely done. This one appears to be publisher created, although without a translation I am just guessing, but some quite excellent book trailers have been created by fans.
Posted on the 17th, not that new perhaps, but it looks like this is going to be a fun ride. And Jack Harkness blends right in for this one.
Every year on May 25th we celebrate Towel Day, taking a towel with us everywhere we go all day long. This is of course in honor of the brilliant author Douglas Adams, creator of the radio play that grew up to be the five books of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It then went on to become a computer game, a TV series, and a movie, among other things; and that was only one of the works created by Doug. Another began as a book, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, then became a radio play, and finally turned into a TV show. Wear your towel with pride; I had DON’T PANIC printed on mine.
Kung Fu Panda 2 hits the big screen this weekend, and promises to be every bit as much fun as the first one. There are some who think the Tree of Life could be genre, but I have my doubts and will therefor be hangin’ with the Panda this time around.