Archive | October, 2006

Engage cloaking device

20. October 2006

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The BB of C reports scientists have successfully tried out a limited form of ‘invisibility cloak‘. No, it doesn’t actually make things invisible in the normal sense most people would use, as in the H G Wells classic tale (two Wells references this week, he does get around you know), Harry Potter’s cloak or Star [...]

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The 2006 Ignatz awards

19. October 2006

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With this being such a big week for new titles (with the latest DC and Marvel pre-orders now live on the webstore) I missed posting on this year’s Ignatz awards at last weekend’s SPX, celebrating the best in small press comics, with some cracking material here (not least from one of our favourites, Fantagraphics, who [...]

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Radio SF

19. October 2006

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Digital station BBC Radio 7 is currently running a fair crop of SF series, including Doctor Who adventures with Paul McGann, a reading of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and also Arthur C Clarke’s classic 2001: a Space Odyssey – click on the Listen Again to get pervious episodes.

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Mammoth Manga

19. October 2006

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The imminent Mammoth Book of Best New Manga, published by Constable Robinson who also do the excellent Mammoth SF and Horror anthologies, has a bunch of preview pages by Andi Watson over on Comic Book Resources; we’re hoping to talk with the artist and editor of the collection, Ilya, in the near future.

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Slave Labor Halloween

19. October 2006

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The gang at Slave Labor Graphics tells me that they are making their Halloween party at their warehouse in San Jose, California, free to the comics-reading public this year. From six to nine pm appropriately dressed fans can enjoy rubbing shoulders with ghouls, zombies and other members of the SLG team and as Dan from [...]

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Torchwood premiered

19. October 2006

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Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who in case you hadn’t noticed – I didn’t until a friend pointed it out a few weeks ago – obviously I lack James Lovegrove’s considerable anagrammatic skills) had its premiere in Cardiff last night. As with Doctor Who, the show is made by BBC Wales and [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group October

18. October 2006

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A reminder that the October meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group is a week earlier than usual (it is normally the last Tuesday of the month) and will be next week on Tuesday 24th October at 6pm in Henderson’s on Hanover Street. The book under discussion will be one of the books which raised [...]

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Bloodspell nominated for Machinima awards

18. October 2006

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Hugh tells me that not only is the eleventh part of Bloodspell up online now (only four more to go), it has also been nominated for Best Series in the Machinima Film Festival 2006 and also Best Machinima Film in the GameShadow awards. As ever you can watch the new episode (and the previous ones) [...]

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Bruce

18. October 2006

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Ah, Bruce Lee; if ever there was a classic pop culture figure who has endured for decades beyond his untimely death it is Bruce, still venerated by fans around the world and endlessly homaged in modern movies. We have this incredible-looking Bruce Lee figure coming later this winter, based around his appearance in Game of [...]

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Evolution

18. October 2006

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Oliver Curry, an evolutionary theorist at the London School of Economics, predicts a split in forms of humanity in a couple of thousand years time, apparently similar to that put forth by the great H G Wells in the Time Machine with his Morlocks and Eloi. According to Curry humans will split into two distinct [...]

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Halloween ‘advent’

17. October 2006

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Drawn notes that cartoonist Michael Fleming is celebrating the Halloween/Sahmain with a sort of ‘advent’ calendar of different spooky critturs each day leading up to All Hallow’s Eve itself on his Tweedlesketch blog – have a look, it’s terrific!

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Ellen Lindner revamps site

17. October 2006

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Ellen Lindner, who is one of the contributors to the comics insert in the new FPI catalogue, has given her website a make-over and invites you to drop by. And in a nice bit of news on her livejournal Ellen said that she has finished the first 160 page draft of her forthcoming graphic novel; [...]

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New Merch extravaganza

17. October 2006

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We’ve been busy beavering away adding ever more cool, new merchandise to our main webstore to tickle your collective fancies. My colleague Lee was particularly taken with the new Series 5 figures from the McFarlane’s Dragons series, which introduces that pesky plague known as humanity into their world. There are six new dragon figures to [...]

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First Torchwood novels announced

17. October 2006

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We’re only days away from the launch of the more adult-orientated Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood (yay, the return of Captain Jack! We like Captain Jack!) and BBC Books has announced the first batch of tie-in Torchwood novels. The first three will launch in January, consisting of Slow Decay by Andrew Lane, Another Life by Pete [...]

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Next Prestonpandemonium

17. October 2006

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Nigel drops me a line to let me know that Scotland’s newest comics event, Prestonpandemonium, is returning for a second bout, bigger and better than the successful first bash, with more tables and an appearance by the terrific Alan Grant as well as more of the activities for kids, so if you are driving down [...]

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