Archive | October, 2005

Interzone 200

24. October 2005

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Hard to believe, but Interzone, one of the pillars of the SF community, has reached the magic 200th issue. Andy Cox, who took over from Dave Pringle and has been revamping the journal and updating has been steering Interzone and also the excellent The Third Alternative with great success. Slicker and neater looking than before [...]

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Arthur Suydam in Spain

24. October 2005

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The 16th Annual Horror and Fantasy Film Festival and Encounter with Comics in San Sebastian, Spain is coming up at the end of this week (it runs from October 29th-November 5th) – it’s been a very well known horror/SF movie fest on the European circuit for some time and, as the title indicates, it also [...]

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New Asterix

21. October 2005

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The first new Asterix album in many years has been hitting the shelves: Asterix and the Falling Sky. And apparently our diminutive hero has a little political edge to him this time round, with Uderzo taking some potshots at cultural imperialism and the dilution of French culture from outside sources. So we have our plucky Gauls [...]

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Silverberg’s Majipoor in graphic novels

20. October 2005

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Following on from their first run in comics comes a collection from the Majipoor universe of one of our most acclaimed SF&F authors, Robert Silverberg. The Seventh Shrine is as much detective story as it is fantasy, designed so those who haven’t read Silverberg’s novels can still find their feet easily (easily being a relative [...]

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New graphic novels

19. October 2005

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A double helping of graphic novel loveliness for you today with the Pre-orders live on our super, shiny new website from the good folks at Image Comics and Marvel. Both their new lists for January are up for your perusal and its a good mix. The House of Ideas has some more of the mega-event [...]

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Watchmen one of the hundred greatest novels

18. October 2005

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The October 24th issue of the internationally-respected Time magazine has an article by their literary critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, listing their version of the top one hundred English-language novels from 1923 to the present day. Well, I think most book lovers have seen plenty of ‘best ever novel’ lists in the last ten [...]

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Maximum 4 Mosley

17. October 2005

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Walter Mosley, the internationally best-selling crime novelist (and long-time comics fan) is apparently the inspiration behind the incredibly tasty Fantastic Four Maximum Edition coming from Marvel this November. Mosley said that he had the idea for the blown-up images because when he was a child reading comics he would try to get as close as [...]

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The Wizard of Oz

15. October 2005

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One of the FPI blog’s favourite makkars, Jeff VanderMeer, has some delightful posts up on his VanderWorld blog detailing his excursion to the Land Down Under where he signed books, engaged in learned literary debate and writer’s workshops, so called because in the olde days unscrupulous publishers used to lock young writers into rooms in [...]

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Bond

14. October 2005

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Following on from yesterday’s speculation the new James Bond has been announced and – no real surprise – it is indeed Daniel Craig who will be the next holder of the double-O license to kill. Shooting on the Paul Haggis-scripted Casino Royale begins in January and promises to take us back to the books with [...]

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Jump Tribe

14. October 2005

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No, it isn’t the tale of a bunch of Van Halen fans – it is in fact a very groovy new series from the wonderfully deranged mind of Clive Barker. Clive has long been known as the king of alternative horror – his books took a tired, often cliché-ridden genre and gave them a kick [...]

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The name is…?

13. October 2005

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Bond, James Bond. Well, at least that is the character’s name but the name of the next actor to play Fleming’s immortal superspy remains a secret even a double-O agent would have trouble finding out. Although the movie makers have been in the press this week discussing the new Bond film they had to admit [...]

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Gaiman does Kirby

13. October 2005

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Comic sites have been buzzing with speculation concerning the Most Excellent Neil Gaiman’s next project for Marvel. Neil has dropped little hints about the project, a re-working of the legendary Jack Kirby’s series, the Eternals, on his current US tour as he promotes his new novel Anansi Boys (his first humorous book since Good [...]

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Not sold out shocker!

12. October 2005

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The comic news websites have been full of stories of sold-out issues these last few months, from Serenity to Supergirl. Being a comic fan I am naturally pleased to see good material being so popular but my cynical side looks at this and wonders what sort of print run there was? Did it sell out [...]

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FPI mag

11. October 2005

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Matt Camp, our ape-wrestling super-editor tells me that the second issue of the FPI magazine should be hitting the shelves by the end of this week, choc-full of articles, reviews and our world-famous mega-catalogue (all in glowing colour), still a snip at £1.40. The second issue is a simian special as you may guess from [...]

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Nominated Who

11. October 2005

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The revamped Doctor Who series has made it onto no less than three categories in the shortlists for this year’s National Television Awards (the ceremony is held on October 25th). Who has been nominated in the most popular drama series (nicely reflecting the series’ adult credentials and not just its kid-appeal) while the two leads, [...]

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