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P-CON: What is it?

31. January 2006

So, some of you will be asking, what is a P-Con? Is it related to an Air-Con? Is it anything like a RomCom? What goes on there? What do people do and who goes? Relax, gentle reader – all these questions about Ireland’s premiere SF convention will be answered by that stalwart of both the [...]

Angoulême winner

30. January 2006

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Lewis Trondheim has emerged as the big winner at this year’s Angoulême International Comics Festival, being elected the new laureate of the town of Angoulême’s ‘Grand Prix’ 2006. Most of the awards are for publications not yet in English translation, with more details available on the official site. lewis has a new publication, A.L.I.E.E.E.N. due [...]

Alice

30. January 2006

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An extremely rare first-edition copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Underground from 1886 went under the hammer at Christies recently, fetching some £4, 800 – rather more than the expected £3, 000. Dedicated by Carroll to Alexandra Kitchin, the daughter of the Dean of Durham, one of his favourite child subject for photography, it was, [...]

New Emerald City

30. January 2006

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Cheryl announces the January edition of Emerald City- number 125 for thsoe keeping count – is now available, with a full compliment of reviews, including the annual Year in Review and a feature article by Jeff VanderMeer and a chance for subscribers to win a copy of Shriek.

The Arthur C Clarke Award

30. January 2006

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Hot on the heels of the BSFA nominations last week comes the other main UK SF literary prize shortlist, the Arthur C Clarke Awards (or should we say, Sir Arthur?). As is often the case there is a fair bit of crossover with the nominees on the BSFAs, although Cheryl over on Emerald City is [...]

Dead By Dawn 2006

30. January 2006

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Adele at the famous Edinburgh Filmhouse, home to the even more famous Dead By Dawn horror film festival writes to let us know about this spring’s gorefest: “Passes for Dead by Dawn go on sale on February 1st at noon and Filmhouse box office can be contacted directly on 0131 228 2688. A separate email has [...]

Cloud Atlas at the book group

27. January 2006

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A quick reminder that the first meeting for 2006 of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will take place next week on Tuesday 31st of January from 6 to 7pm. The book under discussion will be David Mitchell’s Booker-nominated Cloud Atlas. The Book Group’s new home is in Henderson’s wholefood and vegetarian restaurant on Hanover [...]

The Voss Bender Memorial Post Office

27. January 2006

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Top scribe and scourge of wild pigs throughout Florida, Jeff VanderMeer has just posted up on his blog and emailed to a number of chums his latest cunning masterplan to help promote his works. Anyone who has been reading this blog will know that Jeff (and his other half, Ann) works very hard at raising [...]

Wedding bells

27. January 2006

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Wedding bells are sounding in the Marvel universe for the Black Panther and the X-Men’s Storm. According to a recent Marvel press conference. the build up to this event begins in the new six-issue Storm mini series and will continue in Black Panther from issue #14, culminating in nuptials in July with Black Panther [...]

So GLAAD

26. January 2006

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Award nominations season continues unabated (soon we expect the awards nominations for the best awards nominations), but here we have one with a difference, the GLAAD Awards, or Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Awards. The full list is over on Variety and goes on at considerable length (I started worrying when it had nominations [...]

Mark Chadbourn’s new comics

26. January 2006

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As we mentioned the other day, bestselling fantasy novelist Mark Chadbourn joins the likes of Orson Scott Card and Richard Morgan in taking on the world of comics as well as prose novels. In Mark’s case he is now involved in creating – along with excellent artist Bo Hampton – work for Image Comics based [...]

Xena returns to comics

26. January 2006

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Rejoice my fellow lovers of mighty warrior princesses for the wonderful Xena is returning to comics! Details are almost non-existent at the moment, so we have no idea who the writer or artist will be, the format of the series or the likely publication, but Dynamite Entertainment has forged a deal with (the snappily named) [...]

Art School Confidential

25. January 2006

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Dan Clowes and Terry Zwigoff’s Art School Confidential adaptation (from material originally in Eightball I believe) has aired at the Sundance film festival, although reception was mixed according to trade paper Variety. Personally I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Variety’s opinion as I’m not sure they would have the cultural knowledge to ‘get’ [...]

Austalian SF

25. January 2006

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Jonathan reports that the Australian Science Fiction Awards – more normally referred to as the Ditmars – have opened this year’s nominations process. The 2006 awards will be presented at Conjure on April 15th, while the nominations process closes on February 17th. Why should readers in the UK or US be bothered about this? [...]

The Sandman’s gal

25. January 2006

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Sony Pictures has announced that Theresa Russell is the latest actor to join the cast of Spider-Man 3. She will play Mrs Marko, spouse of the main villain, Flint Marko aka The Sandman, played by Thomas Haden Church. In an article in the Hollywood Reporter it is claimed that the Markos will have a [...]

Archive | January, 2006

P-CON: What is it?

Angoulême winner

Alice

New Emerald City

The Arthur C Clarke Award

Dead By Dawn 2006

Cloud Atlas at the book group

The Voss Bender Memorial Post Office

Wedding bells

So GLAAD

Mark Chadbourn’s new comics

Xena returns to comics

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