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


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Cosmos

Friday, February 24, 2006

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Cosmos, the respected Australian SF journal, is making some of the SF they also publish available online, including contributions from Charlie Stross, Joe Haldeman and Gregory Benford among others – well worth checking out. Thanks to Cheryl at Emerald City for the tip.

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Torchwood

Friday, February 24, 2006

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The BBC has announced the lead female actor for the new Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood. Welsh actress Eve Myles will play a character called Gwen alongside the new fan favourite John Barrowman who returns to the popular character of Captain Jack. The new show, aimed at a more late-night, mature audience is again being driven [...]

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System of the World virtual tour

Thursday, February 23, 2006

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Boing Boing today had a link to a flickr site of pictures which will interest the many fans (myself among them) of Neal Stephenson’s excellent System of the World, the final part of his incredible Baroque Trilogy. The creator has put together photographs of some of the London locations featured in the book along with [...]

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Masters of SF

Thursday, February 23, 2006

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SciFi Wire reports that ABC in the States has given the green light to an anthology TV series called Masters of SF, from the same team who created Masters of Horror for Showtime. The hope is to use established SF tales by great writers such as Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asmiov for a [...]

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Estronomicon

Thursday, February 23, 2006

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The second issue of Estronomicon is now available to download as a PDF, with contributions from Sean Woodward, Sarah Crabtree, Mark Allen and others.

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New Arrivals

Thursday, February 23, 2006

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There are a couple of very unusual graphic novels among today’s new arrivals, one very modern, one with much older roots. Put the Book Back on the Shelf is an anthology collecting various writers and artists together from Image Comics – the common theme is that each tale is based around a song by Glasgow [...]

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Radio Pratchett

Thursday, February 23, 2006

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BBC Radio 4 begins a broadcast of Small Gods by the esteemed wordsmith and hat wearer, Mister Terry Pratchett, esquire, next week. The first of four episodes will be transmitted on Tuesday 28th of February at 11pm; if that is past your bed-time you will be able to hear it again on the Radio 4 [...]

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Hack Slash movie

Thursday, February 23, 2006

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A young girl survives a vicious attack by a slash killer and decides to embark on a trip around the country tracking down more slashers and taking them out. Yes, it is the adventures of Cassie Hack and her chum Vlad from the pages of the cult hit from Devil’s Due, Hack Slash. Tinsel Town’s [...]

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Even Jedis like sales

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

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The FX Lightsabers have been hugely popular with our customers for years, not to mention our own staff who also get the urge to collect the different colours and editions. The metal-handled replicas with the solid, light-up blade and authentic sounds are wonderfully detailed and terrific for displays. My colleague Lee tells me that we [...]

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Python on stage

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

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Eric Idle’s stage adaptation of Monty Python’s Holy Grail, the musical Spamalot is coming to London’s West End after an award-winning run on Broadway. Idle quipped he chose to open the stage version in America because the critics were easier to bribe. Genre fav Tim Curry will reprsie his role as King Arthur with Simon [...]

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Ban the Bond?

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

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A group of 007 fans, outraged at the casting of actor Daniel Craig as the new James Bond, have launched a website calling for fellow Bond fans to boycott the new movie currently in production, Casino Royale. The site explains that they are incensed over the questionable way the producers got rid of Pierce Brosnan [...]

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Scanner trailer

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

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Richard Linklater’s unusual (well, it would have to be really…) adaptation of Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly using a new form of rotoscoping animation (think Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings animation but more sophisiticated after all these years) has a new trailer available to view. A graphic novel version is also due quite [...]

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New Zulli site

Monday, February 20, 2006

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The most excellent artist Michael Zulli has finished revamping his website. It has a luscious gallery for you to feast your eyes upon, a journal, links and also a section on Ebay sales of Michael’s original art (alas, beyond my means!).

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Political SF

Monday, February 20, 2006

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Farrah Mendlesohn, a well-known and well-respected writer and critic in the SF community, is feeling so aggrieved by the new anti-terror legislation being pushed through Parliament and the way it could impinge on freedom of speech that she is putting her own time and money into a new anthology of SF short stories which would [...]

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BAFTAs

Monday, February 20, 2006

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Most of the BAFTA awards at last night’s ceremony for movies with a fantastical bent fell into the behind-the-scenes or technical category, with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire winning for Production Design, King Kong for Achievement in Special Visual Effects (which I find odd considering some of the effects shots clearly were not [...]

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