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Star Wars: Blood Oath , by Elaine Cunningham,
is scheduled for publication next year in paperback from
Del Rey Books. Here's a first look at its cover art by Dave Seeley, whose work can currently be seen on the front and back cover of Luke Skywalker ...
The March 2009 issue will be the last
monthly issue. Starting with the April/May 2009 issue, we’ll
be publishing one issue every two months. Each issue will be 256 pages (16 pages longer than our last Oct/Nov issue) except for this year’s ...
I saw this hand-made "Grow Your Own Doctor"
kit and decided that I would love one for
myself, but I don't have the skills or access to the craft items to make it myself. So I would like someone to create a graphic on firm paper or card, using ...
Once upon a time, Shane Acker created a
short film called 9 . Well, now he is
working on a feature-length adaptation called, appropriately enough 9 . Check out the trailer: Wow, I really like the way this looks, as if Tim Burton got a hold ...
The Science Fiction Poetry Association announces the winners
of its 2008 Dwarf Stars awards for short speculative
poems...
Editor Gardner Dozois has posted the table of
contents for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual
Collection : "Turing's Apples" by Stephen Baxter ( Eclipse 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan) "From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled" by Michael ...
Matt Smith has been cast as the replacement
for David Tennant as the Time Lord in the
BBC's sci-fi series Doctor Who. Ahead of Smith's incarnation as the 11th Doctor, we profile the young actor who has just won the biggest role in British television.
I'm excited about the next Underworld movie the
trailer looks good. The prequel story traces the origins
of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
A great explanation of what Project: Shadow &
dashPunk is all about
JJ Abrams’ Star Trek film is officially complete.
According to sources, post production on the summer 2009
film was actually completed Christmas week, shortly after JJ Abrams posted his Holiday greeting on Facebook. The final step of the post ...
Just as Chewbacca showed his bravery throughout the
Star Wars , a pet pug with the same
name saved his family from a dangerous fire this holiday season. The fire started in the basement at about 8 a.m. Christmas morning and thanks to Chewbacca, a ...
Artist Andy Helm has been drawing a Dude-a-Day
for awhile, but it’s his sketches of Darth Vader,
Chewbacca, Han Solo, C-3PO, R2-D2 and a stormtrooper that caught our eye. Most impressive. Check them out here: Andy Helm’s Dude-a-Day ...
The BATTLESTAR GALACTICA season 4.0 DVD set hits
the American market in two days…and suddenly I am
indescribably happy that I didn’t pre-order on Amazon. The alerts fans over at the LJ Battlestar Blog have unearthed photos of the special package ...
While LOST mas is still two weeks away
(Jan. 21st), ABC has screened the two hour premier
for critics and BuddyTV has two words for LOST fans: Shih Tzus . How does this furry little yappy dog figure into the dense mythology? Tune in on LOST mas to ...
Admit it: You think the BBC's Doctor Who
isn't quite as good as it was when your
age was in single digits. Here's your chance to tell us just when it went wrong. Yes, this poll is slightly tongue-in-cheek, but I've also tried to isolate a bunch of ...
SCI FI Wire hosts an exclusive sneak peek
at the final Battlestar Galactica episodes!
The SFFaudio Podcast #019 - Julie Davis (of
the Forgotten Classics , StarShipSofa and Happy Catholic blog
) joins us for a potassium filled show. Talked about on today’s show: Forgotten Classics , The Hidden Adversary , Agatha ...
The American Astronomical Society is having their national
meeting in Longbeach, CA, this week. I’m not attending,
but I do have a few students and a postdoc presenting some of our work on post-starburst quasars (you can read the abstracts ...
Here's my book: THE YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION,
TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL COLLECTION Edited by Gardner Dozois TURING’S APPLES,
Stephen Baxter FROM BABEL’S FALL’N GLORY WE FLED, Michael Swanwick THE GAMBLER, Paolo Bacigalupi BOOJUM, ...
I love novellas. They’re the perfect length for
single-sitting reading, and I think that there’s something about
the form that encourages experimentation. Longer than a short story, I suspect that they give some writers plenty of area to ...
* Author: Jim C. Hines * Genre: Fairytale,
Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery * Paperback: 352 pages *
Publisher: DAW * Publication Date: January 6, 2009 * ISBN-10: 0756405327 * ISBN-13: 978-0756405328 * Author Website * Author Blog The ...
The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively.
LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian
Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no...
Ending months of rumors and insane amounts of
anticipation (from yours truly, who did lose sleep over
this last night), BBC has finally announced which actor will assume the mantle of the Doctor, replacing outbound series lead David Tennant in Doctor Who.
Fret not, readers, as I have a first
look at Season Three of Skins, launching in the
UK on E4 this month. (Stay tuned for word from BBC America on when Season Three will air Stateside.)
J.R. “Rick” Orci, the supervising producer of Fringe,
leaked this photo of himself and executive producer /
show runner Jeff Pinkner pulling an all-nighter. At the bottom of the image you can see the script and title for Episode 1×13.
Clip of Kyle XY 3.01: It Happened…
Having a temporary tattoo apparently is not enough
for Miley Cyrus. The “Hannah Montana” star has been
reported to be drawing her own design for her first tattoo. “Miley has already drawn up the design,” Pop Crunch quoted the 15-year-old’s friend as saying.
A preview of the eleventh episode on the
second season of “Private Practice” has been released. The
show will move on in a new time slot next year, every Thursdays at 10/9c right after the airing of its original show “Grey’s Anatomy“. The first episode of the new year will take impact on January 8.
Betty is making a good impression to one
editor. Of course there is some competition that Betty
has to face. What is more interesting in these episodes is that the real editors of Elle appears as themselves. I know you know who they are. And more importantly I know you are excited to watch this epis
After having his heart broken by the babysitter,
a young Earl goes to drastic measures to make
sure she and her boyfriend pay the ultimate price. Now older and wiser, Earl decides it’s time to cross them off his list.
A preview to the new episode of “Ghost
Whisperer” is available. On Friday, January 9 the show
will return with an episode called “Life on the Line” where Melinda thinks that a ghost call 911 for help.
A convicted criminal breaks out of jail, with
thoughts of revenge, making Don face his past.
After having his heart broken by the babysitter,
a young Earl goes to drastic measures to make
sure she and her boyfriend pay the ultimate price. Now older and wiser, Earl decides it’s time to cross them off his list.
From an Orbit press release : Orbit -
in partnership with a number of major ebook vendors
- has launched an innovative promotion offering one ebook for sale each month at the introductory price of $1.00. At the end of the promotional month the ...
Some of the promo spots to come may
literally make you explode...
ZOMG, did you see what Starbuck changed her
status to? Oh and I'm sick of Apollo's self
righteous notes. Wanna know how Battlestar Galactica would read if it was told via Facebook? Check it out. It's only a matter of time until all great stories are ...










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