Archive | June, 2005

Worldcon day rates

6. June 2005

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The folks at Interaction, the Worldcon due in Glasgow this August, have released details of the price structure for day tickets (as opposed to a pass for the entire con): Thursday, August 4th: £25 Adult / £5 Child (includes admission to film preview of “Howl’s Moving Castle”) Friday, August 5th: £30 Adult / £10 Child [...]

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Visit scenic Ambergris

6. June 2005

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Fancy seeing how you would fare on a visit to Ambergris, the legendary City of Saints and Madmen? Well, Jeff VanderMeer is continuing his multimedia expansion and is now offering readers the chance via an online quiz, which I have to say suits the atmosphere of the book admirably. What do you mean, you haven’t [...]

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We3

3. June 2005

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We’ve been waiting for this collection to come out – We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. It has been, to coin a phrase, eagerly anticipated – not just by our readers but by a fair number of the FPI staff as well, myself among them. Imagine one of those old Disney ‘incredible journey’ type [...]

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Free booklet

3. June 2005

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This weekend FPI are giving away a 16 page, colour-illustrated booklet on graphic novels. It has suggestions for those new to the genre, those returning after a few years of absence and for the old hands too. Like our new website it ranges across a diverse number of tales, from the grim and gritty like [...]

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