Archive | April, 2006

BSFA winner announced at Eastercon 2006

15. April 2006

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Just home from a terrific day at Concussion, this year’s Eastercon, in sunny Glasgow-sur-le-Clyde ; I’ll probably post a bit more on the con later but for now I thought I should pass on the news about the BSFA awards 2006 (although given for books published in the UK during 2005). Many of us crowded [...]

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Dead by Dawn – the latest details

14. April 2006

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Adele Hartley has passed on the latest details for the imminent Dead by Dawn horror film (and now literary too) fest, which spans from Ramsey Campbell to Tony Todd: Well, here it is, most of the films we’ll be showing at Dead by Dawn’s 13th Anniversary next week. Even at this late stage we are [...]

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Testify!

13. April 2006

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Douglas Rushkoff, a name well-known to many of us from his books and online writings has been working on a book with Liam Sharp for DC’s mature readers imprint Vertigo, called . The religious component is bound to infuriate some who will no doubt hold forth on the wrongness of it without actually reading it [...]

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Shazam!

13. April 2006

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The Hollywood Reporter carries the news that Peter Segal is now attached to direct Shazam! New Line Cinema are currently developing the new superhero movie based around DC’s Billy Batson, a young lad who, when he utters the magic word Shazam becomes Captain Marvel, the world’s mightiest mortal (the Cap pretty much rivals Superman in [...]

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Digital Delany

13. April 2006

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That great web resource Boing Boing draws attention to a free MP3 online for a very early SF work by one of the genre’s true great, Samuel R Delany. The Star-Pit features not only sound, music and various actors but narration supplied by Sam himself; quality is a little variable (it dates from the late [...]

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Jeff’n'Scott

13. April 2006

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The irreplaceable Jeff VanderMeer sits down with the too-damned-clever R Scott Bakker over some tea, cakes and coloured fungi for a damned good chat about the final part of the seriously good Prince of Nothing series, The Thousandfold Thought, which is just about to hit the UK shelves courtesy of Orbit. Bakker delivers epic fantasy [...]

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Batton talks Supernatural Law

13. April 2006

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Batton Lash, creator of the Supernatural Law series currently riding high with two nominations in the more mainstream arena kindly shared a couple of words with FPI on being shortlisted: “The nominations are especially significant for me since I always did the Supernatural Law comic book (and the Wolff & Byrd newspaper strip before that) [...]

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Supernatural Law gets mainstream praise

12. April 2006

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Tales of Supernatural Law, the latest volume by the delightfully monikered Batton Lash, is picking up mainstream praise and approval. The Beat reported that Tales is a finalist in the graphic novel category for the Publisher’s Marketing Association’s Benjamin Franklin Awards (which reward independent publishing) and ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Awards. Way to [...]

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Dahl goes graphic

12. April 2006

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I recently added forthcoming Dark Horse titles for August and September to our main site; in among them was an especially interesting little literary rarity being given the graphic novel treatment – a story written by a certain RAF Flight Lieutenant, one Roald Dahl. Gremlins, published during World War Two, is a very early story [...]

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Juliet’s writing course in Scotland

12. April 2006

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Our chum Sandy over at the Alien Online carries news that one of Britain’s best fantasy writers (one of those female writers that don’t exist according to the Times piece discussed a couple of days ago here!) Juliet E McKenna is running her excellent SF&F writing course for budding authors this autumn at Castle of [...]

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Pooh does the Walk of Fame

12. April 2006

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Okay, this may not be exactly SF news, but we love animation so we’re including it: one of the biggest stars of animation, currently celebrating 80 years in Showbiz, has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Yup, Pooh Bear, that honey-fixated-but-oh-so-cuddly bear stuffed with fluff now has his very own [...]

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Venom

12. April 2006

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SciFi Wire drew my attention to a brief interview on MSN with Thomas Haden Church who is playing the Sandman in the next Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie. Thomas inadvertantly confirmed what many of us had suspected – arch Spidey menace Venom will indeed feature in the third cinema outing for our friendly, neighbourhood web-slinger: “I’m [...]

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SFX

11. April 2006

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SFX magazine has a chat with Billie Piper and David Tennant available on their webpage. The new print edition of the UK’s biggest SF magazine also gives a thumbs up to Mike Carey’s The Devil You Know debut prose novel and includes a nice freebie in the shape of a ‘fascinating facts’ type book. For [...]

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SciFi on Seven

11. April 2006

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Digital radio station BBC 7 continues to broadcast SF&F material. Kurt Vonnegut’s and Philip Reeves’ ThanasphereMortal Engines are both available this week and, as usual, they are archived for a week, while radio adaptations of The Twilight Zone are broadcast at the weekend.

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Parrish Plessis – the game

11. April 2006

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Marianne de Pierres, creator of the Parrish Plessis novels which manage to combine action with intelligence, sexiness with social commentary and all set in a dystopian future-SF, drops me a line to tell me that Parrish is expanding into the world of gaming! How exciting! I think Parrish’s adventures will provide a great setting and [...]

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