Carnival of Space Noir

by Pamela | Jan 24, 2008 | Astronomy, Space Carnival | 5 comments

This Thursday’s carnival of space raised the bar on writing a Space Carnival post. I bow down before the whim of imagination that is this week Space Carnival over on Sorting out Science. Go read. Have fun.

5 Comments

Freiddie on January 25, 2008 at 12:04 am

And what does “noir” mean here? “Black”?
pamela on January 25, 2008 at 12:17 am

As in Film Noir. Or Detective Noir. It is a style of writing for old detective shows. Did you see the Next Generation Star Trek episodes were they are in the holo deck doing detective shows? That is Noir style.
Sam Wise on January 25, 2008 at 12:29 am

Or most any Bogart flick — “The Maltese Falcon” is pretty much the classic example. There’s also a good description of the style on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir

Pamela — glad you liked the carnival, thanks for the link & for giving me such good material to work with!

Sam
Freiddie on January 25, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Sigh. I knew I should have at least watched one sci-fi movie.
Beth on January 25, 2008 at 5:19 pm

Oh my! I need more hours in my day. That was nicely done.