Moe Lane's Blog, page 859
September 30, 2020
ENOUGH TALK*! Netflix to do Conan the Barbarian series.
Whee!
Netflix has put in development an epic live-action series based on Conan, the iconic sword-and-sorcery character created by writer Robert E. Howard…
…the project, from Fredrik Malmberg and Mark Wheeler’s Pathfinder Media, is the first in a deal between Netflix and Conan Properties International, owned by Malmberg’s Cabinet Entertainment. The pact gives Netflix the exclusive option to acquire rights to the Conan literary library and develop works across TV and film, both live-action and animated.
This is what is good in life.
Moe Lane
*An excellent scene from an underrated movie…
…and one that perhaps might be referenced in an upcoming anthology of mine. Sign up for Kickstarter launch notifications today!
Tweet of the Day, It’s Florida Men All The Way Down edition.
(H/T: Instapundit) I understand that the ‘Florida Man’ meme is unfair. The state does full-disclosure on crimes, so reporters know there’s a well of crazy stuff there to mine.
And yet.
So. Assuming that this story is correct, Florida highway interactions can start with bumping cars on the highway, speeding up, slowing down, brandishing a firearm, having someone respond by firing a gun through his own windshield, and then having the gunman call the cops himself to report in the incident as a warning to future highway wrongdoers. But that’s not what fascinates me.
This fascinates me.
After the gunplay, THE PASSENGER TOOK OFF HIS SEAT BELT. While the car was still merrily driving along.
:pause:
FLORIDA MAN!!!!!
September 29, 2020
REVISIONARY status, 09/29/2020: 24800/32000
Getting into POLLY WANT, honestly: some stories are hard to expand, but this one really needed to be properly fleshed out. I feel a lot better about this project than the other one, honestly. I should have expanded it a while back.
Patreon!The odd thing about horror, Blid Srohtop discovered, was how quickly you adjust to living with it all the time.
The first few weeks were the roughest; Blid knew he would have to hustle for more customers now that the contract with the Terran Consulate had gone down the sewers, but he had trouble focusing at odd moments during the day. It was always the same thing, too. He would be doing this or that, and suddenly a memory of that horrible [bird]’s head would leap right out of the primitive parts of his brain and terrify him.
It was odd, though. It should have been that terrible beak that unnerved him most, but it wasn’t. It was the eyes, and the way how the [bird] had kept turning its demonic head to watch him from one side, and then the other, with a frustration and suppressed rage that was clear to perceive, even with species and xenological barriers in the way. And the oddest part of all about that? Unlike everything else, that frustration did not seem particularly aimed at him.
The TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION Kickstarter goes live 10/20/2020.
It’s a short story anthology set in the Fermi Resolution world, spanning a millennium of war and conflict. TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION will feature a combination of Patreon and new stories, including a never-before-seen Tom Vargas novelette! I can’t wait for people to read it.
Click here to sign up. Feel free to pass the link to FROZEN DREAMS around, too. Every little bit helps.
The FIREFLY Honest Trailer.
Like me, Honest Trailers loves Firefly. Also like me, it admits that not having multiple seasons of it does nothing to diminish its nerd mystique. Bizarrely, the Netflix model of two-and-out might have threaded that particular needle…
Video of the Day: Orca vs. Otter (language warning)
Via Facebook. Hysterical, yet casually profane, in that particular Australian way. But if you have a cool boss, go ahead and play it for him or her. It’s very well done.
In the e-mail: A Deadly Education: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 1).
Oh, happy day. A Deadly Education is Naomi Novik’s latest, and I’ve already started it, and so far it’s excellent. The only thing keeping it from Book of the Week status is that it already had it, more or the week I heard about it. I regret nothing…
September 28, 2020
You are running out of time to get a signed copy of FROZEN DREAMS at list price! (plus shipping)
Get in on it before I close down the store in anticipation of the new Kickstarter!
Plus: if we hit 100% ($10/physical tier) at the preorder store, I will give away 5 physical copies on Goodreads!
Tell your friends today, because supplies of signed copies are limited!
