Today is my birthday, so I’ll call this one a birthday gift because it arrived in the mail this afternoon. It’s called The Art of Love Death + Robots, and it showcases the artwork for all the episodes from the three seasons of LD+R on Netflix. My contributions to Season 1 were “Shape-shifters” and “Lucky…
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Love Death + Robots anthology on sale this week
If you enjoyed Love Death + Robots on Netflix and you would like to own the anthology of all the short stories that were the basis for the first season, I have good news: it’s on sale this week at Amazon for the low, low price of $2.99 for the Kindle version. Here are…
Frontlines 8, now with title!
Earlier this month, I started work on Frontlines #8. If I stick to my schedule (and so far I am), the draft should be complete by the end of July. I can’t give you a precise publication date for a novel that isn’t complete and turned in yet, obviously. But if all goes as planned,…
Love Death + Robots anthology is live for preorder
The official Love Death + Robots anthology for Season 1 is up for preorder. It contains all the stories that were used as source material for the episodes, including my own “Shape-Shifters” (Episode 10) and “Lucky 13” (Episode 13). The anthology is available on May 21 from these sources: Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0923HJQ5G Amazon AU:…
“A love story between a pilot and her drop ship”
Here’s a short YouTube clip featuring the making of the “Lucky 13” episode of Love Death & Robots on Netflix, narrated by the director Jerome Chen, and featuring lead actor Samira Wiley. The day may come when I get tired of watching LUCKY 13 and SHAPESHIFTERS on Netflix, but it is not this day. …
Lucky 13 Deconstructed
Sony Pictures Imageworks, the VFX house that did LUCKY 13 for Love Death + Robots, put up a really cool YouTube video deconstructing the graphics work that went into the episode. I continue to love everything about the LD+R adaptations.
“Shape-shifters” and favorite werewolf designs
The Love Death + Robots crew has put up short YouTube videos highlighting the animation in the various segments. The one for “Shape-shifters” is here: (CONTENT WARNING: Gore) It’s a pretty awesome werewolf design, all in all, and the fight scene is just knock-down, drag-out violent. I love werewolf movies, and one of my writing…
Online sources for the LD+R stories
Andrew Liptak at The Verge has a handy post up that lists the online sources for most of the short stories serving as material for Love Death+Robots. In related news, I’ll never get tired of seeing Samira Wiley as Lt. Colby, the pilot of Lucky 13 in the Netflix version. Yes, the original character in…
Where to find “Shape-Shifters” and “Lucky 13”
I’ve had more than a few people asking where they can read the two stories of mine that were used for the (amazingly done) episodes in Tim Miller and David Fincher’s “Love Death + Robots” on Netflix. Episode 10 of Love Death + Robots, “Shape-shifters”, is based on my short story “On the Use of…