Archive | March, 2006

Edinburgh book group postponed

28. March 2006

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Due to the industrial action by LRT bus drivers in Edinburgh making travel very difficult the March meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group has been postponed. The meeting to discuss Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go will be rescheduled as soon as is suitable for members.

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road

27. March 2006

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Which is a way of saying that Cheryl and her collaborators have the new March issue – #127 – of Emerald City out in the public domain, with the usual interesting compliment of reviews, interviews and R Scott Bakker’s reply to the previous piece on politics and fantasy by Jeff VanderMeer (the arguments -once everyone [...]

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Wonder Woman in Dundee

27. March 2006

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Respected writer and lecturer on gender and the role of women, Dr Marion Wynne Davies, has organised “An interdisciplinary workshop on gender – everyone welcome. Papers on: feminist philosophy, famous Dundee women, Virginia Woolf and Wonder Woman herself! Wine reception. Wednesday 29th March, 4.30 – 7.15, Room T8, The Tower, University of Dundee.” Details are [...]

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Gaiman Tribute Album

24. March 2006

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Billboard carries news of a tribute album to one of my favourite wordspinners (and one of our finest teller of tales in my humble opinion), the man who does more than any writer to support the black, leather jacket industry, Neil Gaiman. I know Neil has collaborated with the delightful Flash Girls (as has Alan [...]

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Whedon talks Wonder Woman

24. March 2006

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The mighty Joss Whedon talks a little about the Wonder Woman movie over on the entertainment site About. No star yet cast although he is still making lists in his head and would still ideally like to cast someone new in the role. He also remarked that he would like to have a cameo by [...]

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Gaiman in Glasgow

23. March 2006

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A quick reminder for anyone in Glasgow this weekend – that splendid scribe Neil Gaiman will be in town, doing a talk in the Tramway Theatre after the stage production of Wolves in the Walls.

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Doctor Who essay competition

23. March 2006

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Cheryl, in-between polishing her ruby red slippers in Emerald City, reports that webzine Borderblur is holding their first ever contest. It is to celebrate the new Doctor Who making it onto American screens – they cheerfully admit they don’t know much about Who (which has several nominations in the Hugos this year – hurrah!) and [...]

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Lord of the Rings – the musical

23. March 2006

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After more than four years in production and a cost (over £14 million) which makes it the most expensive stage production ever, the musical version of Lord of the Rings will make its debut bow this evening in the fine city of Toronto. If it is successful there are plans to bring it to London [...]

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The Scottish Cartoon Art Studio

22. March 2006

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Terry Anderson, manager of the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio, kindly explains to us some of the background to both the Glasgow-based Studio, the artists involved and their new collection being published this spring by Edinburgh’s Mercat press, Fizzers: “The Scottish Cartoon Art Studio was established in 1999 with support from The Prince’s Trust (PSYBT) and the [...]

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Hugo

22. March 2006

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Cheryl has her finger on the virtual pulse, posting up details of this year’s Hugo nominations already on Emerald City. Full details over at Chez Cheryl, but among the nominees are: BEST NOVEL (430 ballots cast) Learning the World, Ken MacLeod (Orbit) A Feast for Crows, George R.R. Martin (Voyager; Bantam Spectra) Old Man’s War, John Scalzi (Tor) Accelerando, [...]

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Dead By Dawn update

22. March 2006

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Adele Hartley at Edinburgh’s delightfully gory Dead By Dawn horror film festival (which also now includes more literary components as well as blood-soaked celluloid) writes to bring us up to date on the rapidly approaching DbD weekend at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse on April 20th to 23rd: “With the festival less than six weeks away, the programme is [...]

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The Best of the British Animation Awards

22. March 2006

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We’re delighted to add some very unusual DVDs we’ve added to the FPI website: The Best of the British Animation Awards (BAA – hence the sheep logo), which now consists of five DVDs with the sixth volume imminent. You may remember a little while ago I blogged on the latest British Animation Awards to be [...]

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Spiegelman and Dimona

21. March 2006

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A little while ago we mentioned that the Israeli comics collective Dimona had organised their own unique response to the threat of Holocaust cartoons in Tehran’s newspapers in response to the Danish cartoons controversy; rather than get into such a tit-for-tat Dimona cheekily announced that they would hold their own anti-Semitic cartoon competition but for [...]

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Remembering Octavia

21. March 2006

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A few weeks ago we carried the sad report of the far too early death of the very gifted and challenging SF author Octavia Butler. Now The Carl Brandon Society has news of The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund. The aim is to fully fund a writer to attend the Clarion writer’s workshops [...]

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Futurama back on TV?

20. March 2006

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Following on from his post at the start of this year announcing Futurama was returning as a series of straight-to-DVD specials, voice artist supreme Billy West has announced that the deal has changed and it is now a 26 episode TV future for Matt Groening’s Futurama. Bill is, in his own words, “totally jammed, dude.”

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