Most Wanted

Things that Big Dumb Object most wants this week:

  • New Doctor Who episodes. It's a little bit cruel to announce the new Doctor, hype him up and then say that his debut will be in Spring 2010. That's more than a year away!
  • Lost. Is it time for the new series yet? 
  • All the time that was available last week, this week: reading, writing, watching, thinking. Holidays are good.
  • The next big thing. Not sure what it is yet though.
...Matt Smith





Stephen Moffat said that he will be called an unknown, slightly unfairly. I haven't seen him or heard of him (I missed The Ruby In The Smoke). He's certainly young. And he has six months before they start filming. We won't get to see him in action until Spring 2010!



In a surprising move, the BBC have decided that there is no way they will keep the identity of the Eleventh Doctor a secret until the air-date and so are announcing it tonight in a special Doctor Who Confidential entitled The Ten Doctors.

It's on BBC1 tonight at 5.35pm.

Oooh!

My cousin, Marc, reckons it will be Chiwetal Ejiofor, I can't find any odds from the bookies (guess they've suspended betting?) and personally I have no concrete idea but reckon they will probably go for a good actor rather than a big celebrity name.

Anyone care to take a guess before tonight? Winner gets the BDO Biggest Doctor Who Geek Award.




If you are a BSFA member, or Eastercon attendee you can nominate for the BSFA Awards.

I have three short stories eligible for the award (i.e. published in 2008):


You can nominate as many stories as you like and the short list is created from those that have the most votes. So if you like the stories please feel free to nominate them!

Ah, a new year, a time to read even more.

Last year I decided to create an Apocalyptic reading list, which I mostly completed. Hopefully I'll get to read the remaining books this year, in fact a few of them were Christmas presents: Oryx And Crake, The Penultimate Truth, The Stand and The Chrysalids. Also the Wastelands anthology was ordered for me (from Amazon) but didn't turn up, which might mean it's out of print again?  

Other Christmas presents included Spook Country and The Yiddish Policeman's Union both of which I'm looking forward to.

Also on the pile to read are a few from Orbit: 

  

Although I haven't read the book before Chaos Space, which puts me off a bit and highlights the entire problem with series. Talking of series, I have the three Orphanage books to read as well, which have nice covers, but again, the whole series thing is off putting. Also not convinced about reading Gears of War: Aspho Fields seeing as it's based on a video game I know nothing about.


I also have a few old books bought from random Christmas fairs and found lying around including a collection of JG Ballard short stories, some old Heinlein and some old Vogt. None of which I know much about, but they were 10p or something and Science Fiction, and therefore I had to buy them. 

And, on top of that I want to read at least one short story every week. Because I should. Hopefully I'll read all the short lists for the BSFA awards. Nebulas and Hugos. 




Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone.

Yes I know it's an arbitrary human created marker for another trip around the Sun, but at least it gives us all a chance to say the things that we never normally do. Like: I hope you have a wonderful year, that you're happy and healthy, and life is good.


And the winners are....


Unfortunately the judges didn't really read any comics at all this year. Well, unless you count xkcd, which we will have to.

Perhaps the award should become "Best xkcd strip of the year"?

xkcd - A Bunch Of Rocks
xkcd - Depth
xkcd - Fiction Rule Of Thumb
The judges only had access to a Nintendo Wii this year, so all of the hardcore first person shooter games on the XBox and Playstation 3 will not be included in the list.

However there was more than enough joyous gaming to be had. Admittedly not much of it was Science Fiction, but the SF that was there was quite astounding.


The Dumbies 2008 - TV

Science Fiction television in 2008. Wow, what happened? It seemed to explode. Not all of it good mind you, but some of it was great. And some of it was unexpectedly enjoyable. And that's just the shows that the judges watched, there was even more on TV and even more than that if you included Fantasy shows too. (Which of course we don't.)

Lots of quantity a little bit of quality.



Lost
Jericho
Primeval
Phoo Action
Being Human
Doctor Who
Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Heroes
Fringe
Dead Set
Spooks
Survivors (TBD)




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