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New Who

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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Okay, how buzzed are we all from Doctor Who: the Waters of Mars? And the way they’ve worked in the knowledge that the Doctor know his time is ending into his decisions and actions (and my feeling was they also inferred the lack of a close companion has also cost him part of that human [...]

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New Doctor Who this weekend!

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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At last, the waiting is nearly over – tomorrow night at 7pm we’ve got the Doctor back on UK screens. 7pm, BBC1, take the phone off the hook. The Beeb is promising this will be a good scary episode, so make space behind the sofas of the nation, in the traditional manner. Gosh, hard to [...]

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Dollhouse cancelled

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Comic Mix and many other sites are reporting that the mighty Joss Whedon’s current TV series Dollhouse has been axed. It’s sad but not exactly a surprise – in fact it was a surprise to many that the show managed to bag a second season after poor ratings and a lot of criticism of the [...]

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Tomb of the Cybermen

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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MSN has episodes from the classic Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen tale on their video player as well as some other classic Who, Day of the Triffids and the modern remake of the Quatermass Experiment starring David Tennant. (above Deborah Watling as Victoria and Pat Troughton as the second [...]

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Doctor Who – the Waters of Mars

Friday, November 6, 2009

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Ohhh, soon, soon!!!

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Chimpanzee Complex – Big, Wonderful, Epic Sci-Fi.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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The Chimpanzee Complex – Volume 1: Paradox Written by Richard Marazano, art by Jean-Michel Ponzio Cinebook I love big , epic Sci-Fi. Always have. And there just isn’t enough of it in comics to keep me satisfied. Every so often something comes along though that gets it absolutely right, does everything big Sci-Fi is meant to do – [...]

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Getting Cultured – Banksie heading for the big screen?

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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There’s been a fair bit of talk on various science fiction and movie sites about the possibility that one of bestselling author Iain M Banks‘ Culture tales could be headed for a movie adaptation. I’ve double checked with Iain and he’s confirmed that a deal has indeed been struck for the short story A Gift [...]

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Doctor Who Dreamland clip online

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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The BBC’s Doctor Who site has posted up the first brief clip from the upcoming Dreamland, a six-part animated Doctor Who tale which features the voice of David Tennant. The show will appear on BBC digital (by the magic of – what else – the Red Button) and via the official Who site later this [...]

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PW’s books of the year

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Publisher’s Weekly has posted up its annual best 100 books of the year list (yes, its now November – already?! – and we’re moving into that time of year when we’ll all be talking about our faves of the year). Nestling among the entries is the unusual European bestseller which recently came out in English [...]

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Sofanauts discuss Asimovs

Monday, October 26, 2009

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The Starship Sofa crew are joined by guests including one of my favourite writers, Jeff ‘who put the talking squid in my coffee?’ VanderMeer, for a special discussing the famed science fiction mag Asimov’s, discussing problems and possibilities – notably in the digital realm, something all forms of publication have to consider seriously now – [...]

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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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Cast your vote for the annual SFX Awards

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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Voting is now open in the annual awards from Blighty’s top selling science fiction mag SFX. Actually they opened a number of days ago and I clean forgot to post a link up to it, but as they voting is open until 5th December there’s still plenty of time to consider who you will cast [...]

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More new Red Dwarf?

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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I totally missed hearing about this, but Geektown notes that a new series of Red Dwarf has been confirmed by cast member Robert Llewellyn on his regularly updated Twitter. Looks like the recent return for the Dave Easter Special may have finally jump-started the show, which has had endless false new dawns (a film now [...]

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Barry Letts passes away

Monday, October 12, 2009

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Sad news broke over the weekend that writer, producer and director Barry Letts had passed away at the age of eighty four. Letts worked on many programmes as an actor and behind the scenes over his career, but to most fans he will be best loved for his successful tenure on Doctor Who. He actually [...]

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Design the TARDIS console

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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Blue Peter is running a competition for kids to submit their ideas for a re-design of the TARDIS console for the new Doctor Who; the competition will be split into three age ranges from 6 through to 12, with the winner of each age group getting the chance to go on a set visit and [...]

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