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Science fiction superfan guide

Thursday, April 1, 2010

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Geek Tyrant has this great cut-out-and-keep reference guide to superfans of some of the major science fiction and fantasy series out there, from Star Wars and Star Trek to Firefly and Avatar and taking in Lost along the way, going from fairly straightforward (uberfan’s nicknames, such as Trekkers or Trekkies) to how to piss off [...]

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Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island issue 1

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island issue 1 (of 4) by Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres Avatar Press “This is a secret history. Everything I tell you is true. Ionic air propulsion. Electrostatic levitation. Electrogravitics. The Biefield-Brown Effect and electro-fluid-dynamics. Nothing here is invented. It simply appears to be uchronic, counterfactual, sitting [...]

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Ignition City – half a western Flash Gordon from Ellis

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Ignition City by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani Avatar Press After choosing Warren Ellis as my favourite author for the 5th anniversary post of the FPI blog I can’t help but feel very let down by him after completing Ignition City. It’s a classic example of the sort of writing he’s sometimes capable of, especially [...]

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Alan Moore’s Light Of Thy Countenance

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Light Of Thy Countenance by Alan Moore, adapted by Antony Johnston, illustrated by Felipe Massafera Avatar Press (Two covers to Light Of Thy Countenance; left – softcover, right – hardcover) This slim volume is an adaptation of one of Alan Moore’s old prose stories. It’s become rather a popular thing in the last few years [...]

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Avatar – now with added Red Dragons

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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Interesting little compare and contrast pointed out over on Jeff Smith’s website.

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Avatar goodies

Monday, October 19, 2009

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The first few items to go along with James Cameron’s eagerly anticipated Avatar film have started to appear on our webstore (although with some the secrecy on the movie means we’re still waiting on final images for some) and on the companion books front they run from younger reader-friendly guides to the Art book, while [...]

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Mr Ellis heads to Hollywood

Sunday, October 11, 2009

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Warren Ellis already has his Wildstorm series’ Red (with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman) and Ocean optioned and in development with film studios but neither of those movies will feature Ellis in any writing capacity. Instead, Ellis is getting his first crack at transferring his characters from page to screen with one of his lesser [...]

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Supergod – new from Warren Ellis. Meet the messiah…..

Sunday, August 23, 2009

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Over at the Previews site, Warren Ellis has a little introductory essay for his new Avatar series: Supergod. Now, anyone reading the reviews over the years will realise I have a love/love/hate/disappointment relationship with Ellis’ work. Most of the time he’s good, sometimes he’s great, sometimes it’s just not good enough. And it’s his Avatar [...]

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Avatar 3-D trailer at the Glasgow IMAX

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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The Glasgow Science Centre folks tell us they are showing the fifteen minute 3-D trailer for James Cameron’s much-anticipated, highly secretive (let’s hope the finished work equals the hype!) return to feature films, the science fiction movie Avatar on August 23rd. They’re also offering one lucky soul a chance to win a pair of tickets [...]

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Anna Mercury – big ideas & big hair in Ellis’ return to form.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Anna Mercury Volume 1: The Cutter by Warren Ellis & Facundo Percio Avatar Press. Available as a hardcover and softcover edition. I’ve already reviewed Anna Mercury twice; (issue 1 and issue 2), so I’ll be quick here. This is some of what I said about issue 2: With Anna Mercury #1 I put forward the [...]

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Cameron shows off Avatar

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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James ‘king of the world’ Cameron has finally shown some footage of his long anticipated return to feature films, the science fiction epic Avatar. A select industry audience at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam were allowed to see 24 minutes of footage from the film. According to the BBC site there is a ban on [...]

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