Josh Roseman: Archive

March 2012

14 posts

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As of this writing, Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games series has made her the best-selling Kindle author of all time. That’s quite an accomplishment. But even before that happened, it was inevitable that the Hunger Games phenomenon would become a film. After all, with the end of both Harry Potter and Twilight on the horizon, studios were looking for their next big book-to-movie hit.

Well, they found it, and on March 23, The Hunger Games was released to American audiences.

” —My review of The Hunger Games is now up on Escape Pod.

Mar 30, 2012

#film #movie #review #escape pod #hunger games

"Greener" in Asimov's → asimovs.com

My short-story “Greener”, which I’m very proud of, is in the April/May 2012 issue of Asimov’s. Click here to put it in your eyeballs.

Mar 26, 2012

#fiction #greener #asimovs

Journey #31 - The Funeral by Christopher Munroe → journeyintopodcast.blogspot.com

I am performing “The Funeral”, by Christopher Munroe, in Issue 31 of “Journey Into”.

Mar 25, 2012

#audio #journey into

“About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about how fast data storage technology is expanding. My example was my USB drive, which holds eight hundred times as much data in something the size of my finger than my very first hard drive, which was about the size of half a frozen dinner.” —My article The Speed of Sci-Fi, Revisited is now up on Escape Pod.

Mar 21, 2012

#nonfiction #sci-fi #escape pod

“I vaguely remember seeing Return to Oz in theaters as a child and deciding that the movie was good, but scary. As an adult, I’m quite surprised at how creepy and disturbing the film’s imagery was. In Oz alone, we have the insane behavior of the Wheelers, the mirror-palace where Mombi resides, and even the Gump, who should’ve quit while he was a head.” —My review of Return to Oz is up at Escape Pod.

Mar 19, 2012

#escape pod #review #film #oz

EP336: The Speed of Time → escapepod.org

I’m reading “The Speed of Time” by Jay Lake over at Escape Pod.

Mar 17, 2012

#audio #escape pod

Portrait of a Slayer at Fifteen: the 15th Anniversary Buffy Retrospective (part 3 of 3) → escapepod.org

My 15th anniversary Buffy retrospective ends with my top ten episodes. I bet you can guess which one is on top.

Mar 16, 2012

#buffy the vampire slayer #nonfiction #escape pod

It’s Called Metafiction → memes.icanhascheezburger.com

see more Meme Animals

Please… please… PLEASE… don’t ever do this.

Mar 15, 2012

#writing #humor #metafiction

Portrait of a Slayer at Fifteen: the 15th Anniversary Buffy Retrospective (part 2 of 3) → escapepod.org

No retrospective of a beloved television show would be complete without a countdown, so here’s the first part of my top 25 episodes.

Mar 14, 2012

#nonfiction #buffy the vampire slayer #escape pod #review #television

“I know, you want to be Joss Whedon so bad it hurts. (And, quite possibly, it’ll hurt your readers, too.)” —

How Not to Be a Clever Writer

I’d like to think that I don’t try too hard to be Joss Whedon, but sometimes you just have to do it.

Mar 14, 2012

#writing

“I really liked the Buffy series, and “Once More, With Feeling” was a really good episode — on Facebook, my friend Dave said, “to this day I consider this to be the greatest single episode of a series I’ve ever seen”.” —From my review of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Once More, With Feeling” episode soundtrack, over at Escape Pod.

Mar 13, 2012

#escape pod #nonfiction #review #soundtrack

Mar 13, 2012

#comic #writing

“March 10, 1997: the day that changed television for a lot of people. And continues to draw in new viewers all the time. The fashions may not hold up; the slang and pop-culture references might be dated; the effects in the early seasons are definitely iffy. But the storytelling will make this show worth watching even twenty, thirty, or fifty years later.” —

Portrait of a Slayer at Fifteen: the 15th Anniversary Buffy Retrospective (part 1 of 3)

I wrote a three-part retrospective commemorating the 15th anniversary of one of the best TV shows of the last 20 years. This is part one.

Mar 12, 20123 notes

#nonfiction #escape pod #buffy the vampire slayer

“Overall, I found The Secret World of Arrietty to be a good film for kids. It’s not too violent, there’s no on-screen death, the subject matter is age-appropriate, and the good guys win (mostly because there really aren’t any bad guys of note other than Hara, and she’s not too malicious). The ending is a little sad, and I felt like it could use a little more than what we got, but my daughter was fine with it. She told me afterward that she enjoyed the film, and wanted me to get it on Netflix.” —

My review of The Secret World of Arrietty is up on Escape Pod.

There was supposed to be a Buffy-themed article I wrote going up today, but technical difficulties happened. Perhaps tomorrow or later in the week.

Mar 10, 2012

#escape pod #review #film #nonfiction