Archive | June, 2006

No flies on the Wookie

30. June 2006

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Boing Boing has a post about a new species of wasps which the scientists have decided to name after their favourite Star Wars characters! Brilliant… Polemistus Chewbacca!

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July is British Comics Month

30. June 2006

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Dear readers, did you know that the fine summer month of July (we can tell it is summer in Scotland – the rain is warmer) is officially British Comics Month? No, you hadn’t heard? Ah well, that may be because we just decided it the other day! Wouldn’t it be good to celebrate British comics? [...]

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What The Author Says – Michael Reccia

30. June 2006

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I’m delighted to say we have another first for our What The Author Says feature today, with Michael Reccia. Michael is a large part of the driving force behind a very glossy, extremely high-quality publication, a quarterly journal, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller, which he is treating more as a book than a periodical (and rightly [...]

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Boing Boing mention

29. June 2006

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Oh, a nice mention for the new podcast on Boing Boing via award-winning author (and very regular podcaster) Cory Doctorow – thanks, guys!

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Jim Baen passes

29. June 2006

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You may remember the recent post of respected SF editor/publisher/supporter and fixture of the SF community Jim Baen being taken to hospital with a serious stroke. Sadly Boing Boing has reported that Jim lost his fight for life yesterday; author David Drake has posted a fine personal obituary.

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Podcast update

29. June 2006

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Paul has been busy after some useful comments sent in to us and added a button so the podcast can be downloaded for MP3 players now. Joost tells us that we can use a plug in for Word Press so folks can subscribe to the podcast, which we’re trying to look at and will see [...]

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Stardust movie release date set

29. June 2006

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ICV2 carries news from Neil Gaiman, creator of demonic salsa, Mini driver and sometimes known to write some lines. Apparently Paramount has set a date (for the US at least) for the release of the movie adaptation of his illustrated fairy tale (also published as a prose novel) for adults Stardust. Based on the work [...]

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What The Author Says – Neal Asher

29. June 2006

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As anyone who has read Neal Asher’s books will know, Neal doesn’t do things by half. That’s certainly the case here where he takes some time out from his busy schedule (two new books inside a year) to talk to us not only about his forthcoming new novel Polity Agent (which is a Cormac book), [...]

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Shooting War seven online

29. June 2006

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Dan Goldman, cool brush-master on the excellent Shooting War tells me that despite being late for his block party BBQ he’s got the seventh part of Shooting War up on smithmag.net. This week seems to be drawing on a very old military adage that no plan, no matter how well detailed, actually survives contact with [...]

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Super(Scots)man

28. June 2006

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The Edinburgh-based Scotsman has a good feature on the enduring popularity of Superman today, with some interesting contributions from Mark Millar and Neil Gaiman among others (and kindly name checks their friendly, neighbourhood FPI branch).

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Star Wars tattoos

28. June 2006

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I came across this link via Boing Boing – Tattoos and Toys: does what it says on the tin. Basically the site showcases fan’s collections of cool toys and, remarkably, tattoos from genre faves including G.I. Joe, Transformers and Star Wars. Wow. Cool toys and cool pics!

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Shriek movie sound file

28. June 2006

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Jeff VanderMeer has posted a brief update on the Shriek movie and a link to a short sound clip so we can get an idea of how Kathleen will sound as Janice Shriek.

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New Bone

28. June 2006

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Terrific news over on the Boneville blog – the enormous (1300 odd pages) Bone One Volume Edition is returning from out-of-print limbo this autumn. Jeff Smith’s masterpiece crops up on many critics’ lists of top graphic novels, while Time magazine selected it as one of their ten greatest graphic novels of all time. The Fantagraphics [...]

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Podcast ahoy!

28. June 2006

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Hurrah – rejoice oh my friends with hungry ears, for the merry crew of the FPI flagship The Quantum Pig’s Revenge have set sail with a pirate chest full o’ aural booty to fill your empty ear pieces. Which is my buccaneering way of saying the new FPI Podcast is now up and live, with [...]

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Mega Trek goodies

28. June 2006

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Wow, this new entry on our webstore is just bloody amazing. It is also damned expensive! Even with the generous FPI discount this will be beyond the wallets of many of us, but some lucky fan is sure to give a good home to this amazing Master Replica Signature Edition of the original series USS [...]

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