Pixel Scroll 3/2/18 Green Eggs And Lembas
(1) ADDING AN OSCAR. Animation World Network asks, “Do Digital Characters Deserve Academy Awards?” Producing photorealistic digital humans, animals and other types of creatures has been a one of the...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 3/12/18 Dammit, Jim, I’m A Filer, Not A Pixel-Scroller!
(1) MOOMIN FAN. She remembers the Moomin scape her father made for her: “My family and other Moomins: Rhianna Pratchett on her father’s love for Tove Jansson” in The Guardian. I don’t remember the...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 5/27/18 Pixels Scroll Good, Like An E-fanzine Should
(1) WISCON 42 COC INCIDENT. Wiscon 42 announced on social media that action was taken in response to a Code of Conduct violation on a program item today. Their Twitter thread begins — There was an...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 10/1/18 I’ll Have A Short Half-Caf Scroll With Free-Range Foamed...
(1) DOES IT SUIT ME? Would you believe that no one is more surprised about this than the Doctor herself? “‘Doctor Who’: The Doctor Realizes She’s A Woman In A Brand New Clip!” at ScienceFiction.com. In...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 10/31/18 Niels Pixel’s Underground Scrolls
(1) REALLY AND SINCERELY DEAD. [Item by Bill.] Harry Houdini died 92 years ago today: The Official Houdini Seance will be held this year in Baltimore at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. The event will...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 12/8/18 Science Fiction Is What I Yell “ZAP!” For When I Throw...
(1) WHITTAKER SHALL RETURN.The Hollywood Reporter quashes rumors to the contrary: “Jodie Whittaker Confirms Return for ‘Doctor Who’ Season 12”. Shame on rumor-spreading clickbait sites that got fans...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 2/18/19 You’re Saying It Wrong, It’s Pix-EL-ium Scrolli-O-sa
(1) STAR POWER. Over the weekend Scott Edelman recorded a reading by Charlie Jane Anders and Sandra Newman at a Washington D.C. bookstore — On the afternoon of Saturday, February 16, 2019, Charlie Jane...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 5/29/19 Los Scrollitos Dicen Pixelo Pixelo Pixelo
(1) SURVEY SAYS. The Stephen Follows Film Data and Education blog asks “Are video game movies the worst type of adaptations?” The recent release of Pokémon Detective Pikachu has prompted some readers...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 6/4/19 De Scrollus Non Est Disputpixelum
(1) CAT RAMBO. In “So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish”, Cat Rambo begins a seven-part series about her time on the SFWA board. As I’m composing them, I’m asking you for a favor. If there is some SFWA...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 8/3/19 Dublin, Dublin, Scroll And Tribble
(1) STONES WILL ROLL. The Broken Earth is becoming an RPG setting: “Green Ronin To Publish The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game”. “I’ve heard from many of my readers that they’re fascinated enough by the...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 1/17/20 The Longer A Scroll Title, The More Likely It Is...
(1) DOWN THE TUBES. City A.M. shows off new signage created to advertise the forthcoming series: “PICARDilly Circus: TfL renames Tube station to celebrate Star Trek launch”. More photos at the link....
View ArticlePixel Scroll 1/18/20 The Previous Title Appears to Be Accurate
(1) THE FOREVER FRANCHISE. Dave Itzkoff wonders “Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward?” in New York Times Magazine. Michael Chabon’s job used to consist of writing novels, earning literary acclaim and...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 1/27/20 Say, Isn’t That The Scrolled Pixel Of Filothrace?
(1) BAD DOG. “No Doctor Who spoilers will adorn future Pixel Scrolls,” promised Mike Glyer, after spending the day being chastised by File 770 commenters. (2) BAD IDEA THAT’S DESTINED TO HAPPEN? Alex...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 4/29/20 The Voyage Of The Space Pixel
(1) RECOGNIZING THE TROUBLE. Yoon Ha Lee’s Phoenix Extravagant is set for an October release. Learn more about the author’s experience writing it in “Comma-Shaped Jades And Other Curiosities: An...
View ArticleMasked Filers Reading SFF: The Last Hero
Anthony proudly explains: I have a new 3d printer and time on my hands! While he reads Terry Pratchett’s The Last Hero, his dual-purpose mask filters air and makes people want to maintain their social...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 7/7/20 I Know This Defies The Law Of Pixel Scrolling, But I...
(1) CLARKE AWARD GOES GREEN. Well, the reverse idea worked when Lucky Strike went to war… The Clarke Award has unveiled a logo redesign on Twitter via @clarkeaward. (2) PRATCHETT’S GENESIS. “Final...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 8/17/20 Unlikely To Not Have Been Used Before
(1) BUSIEK LIVE. Filer Kurt Busiek will be interviewed by Mark Evanier. The livestream starts August 18 at 7:00 p.m. Pacific. Just two comic book writers sitting around, hundreds of miles apart,...
View ArticleCats Sleep on SFF: Snuff
Vicki Rosenzweig’s cat sleeps darned near sff: I was going through old photos and found this one, of my late cat Julian sleeping with a Pratchett novel. Photos of your felines resting on genre works...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 10/9/20 Green Scroll The Pixels O!
(1) A REAL STEMWINDER. BBC America’s Pratchett-inspired series The Watch was teased during today’s virtual New York Comic Con. Welcome to Ankh-Morpork. Expect dragon sightings. ‘The Watch’, an all-new...
View ArticlePixel Scroll 10/10/20 Schrödinger’s Box Remains Both Ticked And Unticked At...
(1) A NOT-SO-LITTLE LIST. BookRiot concocted a way of assessing an interesting question: “How Do Readers Rate The New York Times Best-Selling Books?” …For their research, the organization pooled all...
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