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Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End & Larry Niven’s Ringworld Coming to SyFy
Two works of hard SF are set to become miniseries on the SyFy channel. Both Larry Niven’s Ringworld and Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End will become TV projects in the near future. Ringworld concerns...
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Morning Roundup: The Space Kraken Strikes Back
20,000 leagues across space lurks the giant Space Kraken, or as it’s also known KR-KN. Coming from Ian Heath, this beautiful tribute to both Jules Verne and Star Wars should make everyone endlessly...
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You Take Your Star Wars—I’ll Keep Mine
Being a Star Wars fan is confusing. It’s confusing because we have the original trilogy, the tie-in media, the prequels, also cartoons and video games, and now more movies are coming that will...
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A Love Letter to The Dragon Quartet by Laurence Yep
Take my hand, dear reader, and let’s take a leisurely stroll down Nostalgia Lane to revisit our roots. The “we” in the “our” is us: nerds, geeks, genre fans. And our roots are the beginnings, those...
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Marking the Clarkes
Last week, the shortlist for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award was announced, and the internet promptly exploded.Maybe I’m overstating the case. Maybe I should say, instead, that our little corner of...
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Sketchy (Excerpt)
Check out Sketchy by Olivia Samms, first book in the Bea Catcher Chronicles, out on April 30 from Amazon Children's Publishing:Bea's life has been a mess ever since she got kicked out of private school...
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The Way of Kings Reread: Chapters 1 and 2
This week brings us to Chapters 1 and 2, which set up the predicament for who I’d certainly call the star of The Way of Kings. Sanderson has said that each book will be from many different character...
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Katniss & Prim Hugging in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
This is what we imagine Katniss and Prim are saying to each other in this new promo picture from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire:Hey Katniss, you’re the best sister ever. No Prim, you are awesome and I...
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The Sookie Stackhouse Reread: Book 8, From Dead to Worse
Welcome back to our weekly Sookie Stackhouse re-read of Charlaine Harris’s bestselling series. This week we’re reading From Dead to Worse, the eighth book in the series. Now that we’re getting into the...
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The Man of Steel: No Kryptonite, Still No Pants
Listen, I’m a fan of the “Everyone on Krypton was a perfect super-person, it was a utopia and now it is gone, alas” viewpoint so I am with you that far, Mister Snyder. I am also a fan of the Donner Era...
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Jim Henson and Roald Dahl Present: The Witches
Jim Henson’s last work was done on The Witches, a live-action/puppet adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1983 novel. It was, oddly enough, the first and only time these veteran children’s entertainers had...
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Red Doc> Sweepstakes!
You need some fabulous poetry in your life. We had an excerpt of Anne Carson's Red Doc> a few weeks back, and now we're looking to hand you a copy. We've got five of them in the office and they are...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Per Manum”
Season 8, Episode 13: “Per Manum”Original Airdate: February 18, 2001What if Scully had always been the believer? What if, and I mean, really what-if, and I mean, what I’m really talking about here is...
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Poison (Excerpt)
Take a look at Poison by Sarah Pinborough, out on April 18 from Orion Publishing:A beautiful, sexy, contemporary retelling of the classic Snow White fairy tale, illustrated by Les Edwards.Poison is a...
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Gaming Roundup: Will the Next-Gen Xbox Have an Always-Online Requirement?
A series of reports claiming that the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Durango, would have an always-online requirement recently made waves around the gaming world, prompting many gamers to outrage and...
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Morning Roundup: Alice & Dorothy Have Some Real Talk About Oz. Vs. Wonderland
Oh, man! To be a fly on the back of Toto or Alice’s cat (Is it Dinah? Alice has many cats at the start of Through the Looking Glass, so we’re not sure which one that is. But there is a Cheshire vibe...
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The Folding Knife Reread: Chapter Six
As important as last week’s chapter was in establishing Lina and Basso and their relationship, it was a little… quiet.This week, there’s no shortage of excitement. Plague and assassination ahoy!Chapter...
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The 8 Essential Eyepatches in Science Fiction
Contrary to popular belief, the fastest way to convince someone you are a dangerous person is not to sport a bizarro-world Spock goatee, but instead, get yourself an eyepatch. Did ancient pirates...
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Australian Fantasy: Justine Larbalestier’s Magic or Madness
What makes Justine Larbalestier’s Magic or Madness so distinctive and memorable is the protagonist, Reason Cansino. Reason is Australian, and half-Aborigine, and she has grown up in extremely peculiar...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Toll the Hounds, Chapter One
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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