Archive | August, 2006

Mike Cobley joins Orbit

19. August 2006

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I heard about this a few days ago but had to contain my excitement to post it until the official announcement: Mike Cobley is the latest excellent SF&F writer to be signed to top UK (and now worldwide) SF publishers Orbit. Humanity’s Fire is a new epic SF series from the Shadowkings scribe, a vast [...]

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Banksie speaks

19. August 2006

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The Saturday edition of the Glasgow-based Herald has a brief video report (apparently archived if you are checking this later in the week) on the bewildering array of festivals in Edinburgh (which I’m having fun running round myself at the moment, taking a few moments for a quick blog post). Today’s video report features one [...]

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Cyberned

16. August 2006

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Proving that the globetrotting Jeff VanderMeer doesn’t have the monopoly on using other media, the excellent fantasy author Mike Cobley of Shadowkings fame drops me a line to say he too has posted himself onto YouTube. For some reason Word Press doesn’t like the YouTube emebed screens, but you can see it by going here.

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Paul talks Manga

16. August 2006

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Matt at Bugpowder points out that a chum of the FPI blog, the excelent Paul Gravett, has posted an interview discussing Manga on his site. Considering we were talking here the other week about the incredible growth of Manga sales in both comics stores and general bookstores in the US and UK this makes a [...]

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Wolverine claws

16. August 2006

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I’m actually away at the Edinburgh Film Festival right now, hence the lower than usual level of blogging on here this week, but I spotted this story on Boing Boing of a guy who has had ‘temporary’ Wolverine claws inserted into his hands and just had to share it with you. Incredibly cool, although it [...]

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She’s a wonder!

11. August 2006

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DC Direct has created more than a few Wonder Woman collectables over the years – our favourite Amazonian has, after all, been around almost as long as Batman and Superman. But this week they announced that for the first time they were creating a statue based around the actress Lynda Carter’s (gorgeous) image. The statue, [...]

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Book Festival selling out

11. August 2006

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The Scotsman reports that the Edinburgh International Book Festival has sold more than 150, 000 tickets in advance of the opening day tomorrow, a new record for the Book Festival. Unfortunately the EIBF is not terribly good at putting forward many SF&F writers (except for younger readers – perhaps they are trying to say something), [...]

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Ratner does Brazil

11. August 2006

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Variety reports that Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: the Last Stand, is to direct the latest in Hollywood’s seemingly endless updated remakes of older films – this time the victim is The Boys From Brazil. The original late 70s movie starred Gregory Peck as Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi ‘doctor’ who performed unspeakable ‘experiments’ in [...]

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Gloom Cookie finishes – sort of

11. August 2006

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Slave Labor Graphics has announced that the hit Gothic comic Gloom Cookie will end with issue #28 this autumn. Do not despair though – the series will continue in trade paperback form. SLG found that the bulk of the readership are not regular comics issue buyers and prefer to wait for the collected trade paperback [...]

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New Who pics

11. August 2006

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Ariel has discovered that the BB of C’s mighty website has some news of the filming of the third season of Doctor Who online. The Christmas Special episode, the Runaway Bride (starring Catherine Tate), is now in the can apparently and filming commenced this week on the third season proper, which means enter new companion [...]

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Trudi Canavan hits the bestsellers again

11. August 2006

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Trudi Canavan has followed her astonishing success with Priestess of the White with her next volume, Last of the Wilds, set to go straight into the Sunday Times top ten hardback fiction bestsellers this weekend my chum George at Orbit tells me (with a big grin on his face no doubt). And that is the [...]

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Hero Chronicles

11. August 2006

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My colleague Gary is currently working on developing his own superhero comic in his spare time, the Hero Chronicles. He has just launched a blog as a preamble to the actual comic, to introduce the basic idea, settings and characters as well as show design ideas and sketches. I do like the use of the [...]

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Big Who spoiler?

10. August 2006

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If you hate spoilers – even potential and totally unconfirmed ones – look away. According to one source the Beeb are looking into a ‘son of the Doctor‘ scenario to allow the show to run on after the remaining regenerations are used up. Since this is not confirmed by Russell T Davies or any official [...]

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New Modern Monstrosity launch

10. August 2006

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The latest title from Modern Monstrosity – the gang behind Tales From the Flat – is a brand new anthology showcasing a fine selection of UK small press talent, which makes it a pretty good taster for anyone thinking on dipping their toes into the British small press scene for this first time. Modern Monstrosity [...]

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Grimwood sings the Blues

10. August 2006

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The Most Excellent Jon Courtenay Grimwood has an interview online with the SFX crew available as his latest novel, End of the World Blues hits the shelves (as does the paperback version of his previous work, the brilliant noir-esque 9Tail Fox). Good news within the interview – Jon has agreed to do another set of [...]

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