Buzz News Roundup, 9/7


Updated 09/08/07 9:13 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 5 comments

Buzz News Roundup, 9/7

Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and other books, died Thursday at age 88, the New York Times reports. Death Cab for Cutie is heading back to the recording studio mid-September, says Billboard. Hollywood Reporter has news that Ralph Fiennes will join Keira Knightley in The Duchess. Zap2It states that there will be an animated film version of Robotech, with Tobey Maguire producing Read more

Banned Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Last Two Decades


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Banned Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

When a high school in Missouri recently banned Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut's story of World War II as told through a science fiction lens, for creating "false conceptions of American history and government," the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library stepped up to donate copies of the book to any affected student that requests it. Despite First Amendment protection, banning or attempting to Read more