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Neil Gaiman Explains All Hallow’s Read
It’s All Hallow’s Read time again! Listen below to a murder-ignoring Neil Gaiman as he explains what the book-donating event is all about.[Supposedly no one is actually murdered...]Read the full article
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Elsewhens Sweepstakes!
You've taken a look at that fabulous excerpt, now it's time to get your hands on a copy of Elsewhens, the second book in Melanie Rawn's Glass Thorns series. This is well before its February...
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What’s NOW for Marvel’s X-Men and Avengers
If you’re a Marvel-head like me, you’ve been keeping an eye on the changes going on with Marvel’s NOW initiative. Suddenly, mutants are Avengers, Storm’s getting a mohawk and...Deadpool is punching...
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An Interview With The Dark Lord and Jamie Thomson
The Dark Lord—an epically fearsome villain from the Iron Tower of Despair, beyond the Plains of Desolation, in the Darklands—is confounded when he awakens in the middle of a small town on a planet he's...
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Take That, Felix Baumgartner! Watch the World’s Shortest Free-Fall
Mankind, not content to merely jump from space to the surface of the Earth, also recently set the record for shortest free-fall during a stunt on a recent episode of Conan. Check out video below the...
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Morning Roundup: Adam West & Leonard Nimoy Jam Out
Do we need both Spock and Bruce Wayne playing the drums on this song? Actually, that’s ALL we need for this song. We’ve trying to imagine it all day and we really just can’t.Your offsite links are a...
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The Great Stephen King Reread: House Rules
Stephen King is such a part of the American cultural consciousness that there’s no point in debating his importance anymore: take it as a given and only waste your time if you’re trolling for traffic....
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The Great Stephen King Reread: Carrie
People praising Stephen King sometimes chalk his popularity up to the way he tells a story. They say that he’s all about the plot, driving it ahead like a runaway train, keeping his readers hooked on...
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Same Old Beauty, Same Old Beast: Beauty and the Beast
Beauty & the Beast premiered last Thursday at 9/8c. in traditional CW style – with high doses of melodrama and just enough viewers to keep it alive for the rest of the season. The first five...
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Reopening The X-Files: “The Beginning”
Season 6, Episode 1: “The Beginning”Original Airdate: November 8, 1998The strangest thing about “The Beginning” is how much it cares about “The End.” After the bright, broad bombast of Fight the...
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8 Highlights From Doctor Who’s Peter Davison at NYCC
Peter Davison was at New York Comic Con this year, and there were plenty of fans scrambling to get into the room with him. The reason why became apparent in seconds: Davison is a con veteran, the sort...
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Rothfuss Re-read Speculative Summary 15: Stick by the Maer
My obsessively detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but the speculation goes on. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things posted since last...
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Do You Have a Cold—Or the Flu?
There's a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won't stop this flu. Because when...
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The Emperor’s Soul (Excerpt)
Enjoy this excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s novella The Emperor’s Soul, out now from Tachyon Publications.When Shai is caught replacing the Moon Scepter with her nearly flawless forgery, she must...
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When Magic Is a Bit of a Letdown: Magic or Not?
Edward Eager’s fifth novel in his Magic series, Magic or Not, is his take, more or less, on Edith Nesbit’s The Wonderful Garden, that children’s book where neither readers nor characters could be...
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It’s All Neville, All The Time on Revolution: “Soul Train”
It’s been five weeks since NBC introduced us to the post-apoc blackout drama Revolution and – dare I say it? Has the show finally hit its stride? This week our storylines collide, as our intrepid...
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George Lucas’s Mom Was Yoda? Michael Kupperman’s Talkin’ Bout Star Wars
Over at the Huffington Post comic illustrator and writer Michael Kupperman (Tales to Thrizzle, Mark Twain 1910-2010, the Lemony Snicket series) is talkin’ bout Star Wars on account this year being its...
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Morning Roundup: Ivan Reitman Will Do Ghostbusters 3 Without Bill Murray
The notion of a Ghostbusters 3 without Bill Murray is in two words “mass hysteria.” But the latest of the rumors haunting the morning links is just that. Original director Ivan Reitman might be going...
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Finally a Chinese Steampunk Movie that Unquestionably Is Exactly That: Tai...
Okay, for those who know me, I’m very into non-western steampunk. And I enjoy kung fu comedies. A good steampunk film isn’t just pretty-looking with quirky tech, but addresses shifting social and...
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What it Would Be Like if H. P. Lovecraft Wrote Fantastic Four
Funnybook writer Mike Sterling recently wondered what it would be like if H.P. Lovecraft had written the Fantastic Four. (Which would, of course, actually be called “The Phantasmagorical Four.”) He...
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