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Joe Gordon - who has written 285 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.


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Ragnarok

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

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The highly unusual mixture of electronica, synths and sitar from Ragnarok, who played to great acclaim at the recent Eastercon SF event in Glasgow, can be heard via the magic of MP3 on their own web site.

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P-Con IV announces GoH

Monday, April 24, 2006

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That’s Guest of Honour if you’re not familiar with convention-speak; ‘GoH’ is also the sound certain SF writers make at 3am in the convention bar when informed it is their round. Kim Newman, writer, journalist, broadcaster and master of sculpted facial hair will be the Guest of Honour for P-Con IV, which is gearing up [...]

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New Emerald City online

Monday, April 24, 2006

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The latest issue of Emerald City, number 128, has just hit the virtual newstands and includes a cracking review of V For Vendetta by Moore-expert Pádraig Ó Méalóid, an essay on style by that sultan os linguistic sartorialness Hal Duncan, Victoria Hoyle reviewing the Clarke-shortlisted Never Let Me Go, Cheryl reviewing Mike Carey’s Devil You [...]

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Black Hole

Friday, April 21, 2006

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Not the graphic novel by Charles Burns but the astronomical feature which gets Stephen Hawking so excited – NASA has managed to create a mathematical script to describe how the gravitational waves from two merging black holes would look animated on a computer (previously the maths simply crashed the programmes). Scientific theory and science fiction [...]

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Author talks to author

Thursday, April 20, 2006

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Padraig over at Irish SF News directs my attention to the transcript of an interview between to excellent fantasy novelists as Juliet E McKenna interviews Susanna Clarke over at Fractal Matter. There are also some other damned interesting interviews available on the main page, including Colin Greenland and Mike Carey – well worth a visit. [...]

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Pilot of the future

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

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Digital radio station BBC7 is repeating the first Dan Dare tale Voyage to Venus, which sees Dan and crew captured by the evil Mekon of Mekonta and his Treens while exploring Venus to see if crops could be grown there to feed the hungry Earth. Check out the Listen Again button on the left-hand side [...]

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Supernatural Law gets mainstream praise

Wednesday, April 12, 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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SFX

Tuesday, April 11, 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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Chaykin’s Power & Glory

Monday, April 3, 2006

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Howard Chaykin’s old mini-series Power & Glory has had the film rights picked up by New Line, reports Variety. Being one of Howard’s works you may expect it to be a slightly unusual superhero (if I’m still allowed to use the term without infringing trademarks!) tale and you would be right: it sees a US [...]

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Lord of the Rings – the musical

Thursday, March 23, 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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V previewed

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

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Pádraig, fresh from organising this year’s Phoenix Convention in Dublin, gushes over a preview of V For Vendetta he was lucky enough to attend (with Leah Moore and John Reppion no less!). In short he loved it – and Codename P is not only a graphic novel collector but an expert on all things Moore, [...]

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V gets more good advance reviews

Thursday, March 2, 2006

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The V For Vendetta movie, which many fans of the original work, including myself, were hoping would be good but were more than a little worried about (especially after the casting change mid-shoot and the movie being put back several months), has had some more good word-of-mouth. Following on from a very good review in [...]

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The Illustrated Anita

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

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Dabel Brothers, who brought us fantasy novelist George R R Martin’s Hedge Knight among other licensed projects, have announced they are bringing the internationally best-selling Laurell K Jamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series to comics. The first in this new monthly series, Guilty Pleasures, is expected to arrive in bookstores in June, with graphic novel [...]

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Jessica Abel has new site

Monday, February 27, 2006

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Artist and writer Jessica Abel, who brought us Artbabe among others, has a shiny new web site up and live with notes on her work, samples of her art and even some pages giving advice on how to create your own comics. Jessica has a new book, La Perdida, due out this spring.

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Pierce goes to Marvel

Monday, February 27, 2006

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Marvel continues the current trend of picking up SF&F novelists as new comics writers (and indeed not just SF&F as Scottish crime writer, the excellent Denis Mina is currently doing Hellblazer for DC) with the announcement that Tamora Pierce is to write a new run of White Tiger. Tamora is well known for highly enjoyable [...]

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