Archive | December, 2005

Who Christmas

13. December 2005

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BBC Breakfast news screened a brief clip from the Doctor Who Christmas Special episode this morning. The scene showed Rose’s mother and her on-off boyfriend Micky both stopping in their tracks as they hear a familiar sound (described in almost every Terrence Dicks’ Doctor Who novelistion in the old Target books as a ‘wheezing, groaning [...]

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KJ online

12. December 2005

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Top fantasy author KJ Parker has been wowing readers and seems set to continue with a brand new series beginning in early 2006, Devices and Desires, the first part of the Engineer Trilogy (first book so a good chance for new readers to see what all the fuss has been about). My chum George at [...]

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Free Hosting at FPI

12. December 2005

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As you’ve probably noticed we’ve been making some serious changes in our main website recently; a lot of effort has gone in from the FPI online and the sales team into not only the site but expanding the features and offers available. As part of that, we are now about to offer free hosting on [...]

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Sad news

10. December 2005

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The great Robert Sheckley, ill for some time now, passed away on Friday 9th, aged 77. Cheryl over on Emerald City has posted up a link to a brief obituary by the SWFA here; I’m sure there will be more and longer articles in the days to follow.

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Used TARDIS for sale

10. December 2005

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A miniature TARDIS used in the beloved Doctor Who series from the mid 60s right through to the opening sequence of Tom Baker’s long reign as our favourite Timelord is coming up for auction. What to buy for the Doctor Who fan who has everything! Still, if you can’t stretch to this auction, never mind, [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group January

8. December 2005

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The next meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will take place in Henderson’s on Hanover Street on Tuesday 31st of January 2006. Following on from this month’s discussion of Jeff VanderMeer’s City of Saints and Madmen (which Jeff kindly contributed some observations on to enhance the discussion) the group is sticking with another contemporary [...]

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Best of the Year

3. December 2005

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It is that time when magazines and TV shows look back and pick highlights from the year as it approaches its end. Well, we are no exception at FPI and we’ve started our Best of Year feature over on our new site. There are personal picks from staff members covering books, graphic novels and merchandise [...]

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Best of the Year

3. December 2005

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It is that time when magazines and TV shows look back and pick highlights from the year as it approaches its end. Well, we are no exception at FPI and we’ve started our Best of Year feature over on our new site. There are personal picks from staff members covering books, graphic novels and merchandise [...]

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Knit one, purl two, let’s go dance at the zombie zoo

1. December 2005

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Cakeyvoice has created a version of Shaun of the Dead using knitted plush dolls! How cool is this? It is available via flickr here (thanks to Boingboing for the tip).

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Subscribe!

1. December 2005

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The Comics Journal – or TCJ to those in the know – has been produced by the Fantagraphics team (home to much Crumb and Los Bros Hernandez among many others) under the editorship of Gary Groth since 1976. Over the years TCJ has become pretty indispensable to serious comics fans – it has a mixture [...]

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