Archive | April, 2005

Bonding

7. April 2005

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Bonding is one of those great games which comes our way occasionally – guess who will be the next James Bond. Almost as popular as New Whoing, where fans, the media and betting shops argue and lay wagers on which actor will be next to play the errant Time Lord. A number of media outlets [...]

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6. April 2005

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This year’s BSFA winner, River of Gods by Ian McDonald, has just been released into mass market paperback. Gleaming piles of award-winning, literary lusciousness await the discerning buyer in our branches and online. Also on the Hugo and Arthur C Clarke awards shortlists, could Ian pull of an awards hat-trick?

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Michael Zulli

6. April 2005

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You may recall that back in the Ides of March (the 15th to be exact) I blogged about a very unusual and interesting use of the web medium by one of the best artists working in the comics genre, Michael Zulli. Following a link from Neil Gaiman’s journal I found Michael’s site where he was [...]

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Mini interview – Ian Hocking

6. April 2005

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A few short weeks ago the FPI Blog Logs featured a very interesting new book – a debut SF novel from a small British press (UKA) by Doctor Ian Hocking called Déjà Vu. The novel has garnered some choice reviews and praise (including from Jon Courtenay Grimwood in the Guardian and Andy Sawyer on the [...]

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Screaming brains

5. April 2005

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Screaming brains, Bruce Campbell; do those words make you excited? Oh, I’m sure they do, go on admit it. Yes, our favourite big-jawed hero is back with The Man With the Screaming Brain. The movie will be coming later, but the comics adaptation is not a straightforward re-telling of the movie script – instead the [...]

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Serenity

5. April 2005

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Not content with TV shows, his current crop of comics, the Firefly spin-off film Serenity and, as we reported here recently, the Wonder Woman movie, Joss ‘What? Me, sleep?’ Whedon is co-authoring (with Brett Matthews) a three-issue mini-series, Serenity, based around the events in the movie (due this autumn), with pencils by Will Conrad. Broke [...]

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The Force is strong with this one…

5. April 2005

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My colleague Lee has been beavering away with our buying team to bring you FPI’s special Star Wars Revenge of the Sith section on our webstore, including figures, vehicles and the promise of much more to come. I think the Anakin/Vader item in the Deluxe Figures range is especially cool – you can actually change [...]

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Who blundered?

5. April 2005

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An article on the BBC website today admitted that the coprporation made a blunder over the new Doctor Who, failing to consult Christopher Eccleston before responding to media enquiries last week about him leaving the show after only one season. The BBC also apologised for attributing statements wrongly to the actor and admitted that the [...]

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More McDonald

4. April 2005

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Another author we’ve been trumpeting, the BSFA winning Ian McDonald has secured further book deals with Simon and Schuster following the great success of River of Gods (which is also on the Arthur C Clarke and Hugo awards shortlist, which should give you an indicator of how good it is). Ben Ball of Simon and [...]

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Poetical

4. April 2005

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One of our more unique writers, Jeff VanderMeer, was appropriately given the gift of unusual writing in the shape of a poem handed to him in the form of a paper aeroplane. It gives a rather nice insight into Jeff’s City of Saints and Madmen which has just been released by Tor Macmillan. It is [...]

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Edinburgh author becomes posthuman

4. April 2005

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The always excellent Locus posted this story about Edinburgh-based author Charlie Stross ascending to post-human sentience not dissimilar to his own ‘weakly godlike’ Eschaton. It is a very entertaining tale and sadly an April Fool’s one (sorry – didn’t get to read it until today). However, for those of us who know the multiple-Hugo nominated [...]

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Interzone

4. April 2005

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The spring edition of Interzone (a pillar of the UK SF&F scene for many years) has a Q&A with author Ian R MacLeod who brought us the very unusual The Light Ages and his recent House of Storms (beckoning you from our book shelves as we speak, have a browse, go on). To say Ian’s [...]

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Sin City Reviewed

4. April 2005

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Recently returned from the City Which Never Sleeps, my colleague Kenny shares his thoughts on the new Sin City movie which has just opened State-side (topping the US box office on it’s opening day on Friday, taking some $12 million – over twice the take of the second placed film, Beauty Shop): I was lucky [...]

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Quatermass

1. April 2005

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This Saturday the digital channel BBC Four is going to attempt to re-create one of the seminal tales of British SF, the Quatermass Experiment, widely held to be the first ever British TV SF. Created by Nigel Kneale, a TV writer-producer far ahead of his time, Quatermass is justifiably celebrated as one of the best [...]

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OZ SF

1. April 2005

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Following up from the recent information on the Australian SF awards that author Marianne de Pierres kindly sent us, I’ve had a very interesting follow up courtesy of Rowena, who is happy to give us a peek into the world of Australian SF&F (thanks, Rowena!). Marianne and Rowena will be appearing on one of the [...]

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