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Your August 2009 SFcrowsnest scifi rag is enclosed
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SFcrowsnest
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Jul 26, 2009 08:11 PDT
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STEPHEN HUNT'S SFCROWSNEST.COM
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com | Issue 189. August 2009.
"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their
creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and
replaced by vague ritual."
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert (1982).
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THUS I REFUTE BUZZ
Buzz Aldrin, notes Mark, recently complained that the lack of interest
in the space program is much the fault of science fiction. Science
fiction, he says, has raised people's expectations with its transporter
devices and hyper-light travel. Real science, like space exploration, is
slower and more cautious.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/features/arc/2009/nz14102.php
TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH
An appraisal by: GF Willmetts. Bastards! Let's add an adjective to that.
Dirty bastards! I expect that was what many of you said while watching
the five-part Season 3 of 'Torchwood: Children Of Earth'. Very few
characters got out by doing the right thing for the right reasons
without looking after their own interests, including Captain Jack
Harkness, a character tarnished by his own not very proud actions in
1965.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/features/arc/2009/nz14116.php
TO ERR IS EVERYTHING
The world is made from mistakes. When I first started writing this
editorial I was only considering the history of mankind but it is
actually the basis of everything in existence. After all, a stable
universe wouldn't have had a series of bangs that would have spawned the
various galaxies. Stability would mean nothing at all happened. I mean,
you'd hardly choose an explosion to start everything off if there was a
better option, would you?
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/features/arc/2009/nz14117.php
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Albedo One # 36
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14133.php
Alien Trespass (Geoff's take)
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14120.php
Aliens 1/12 Scale Power Loader
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14147.php
Alter Ego # 58 May 2006
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14145.php
Babylon 5: The Legend Of The Rangers
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14136.php
Babylon 5: The Movie Collection
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14131.php
Babylon Babies by Maurice G. Dantec
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14142.php
By Heresies Distressed Audio Book by David Weber
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14137.php
Cone Zero: Nemonymous
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14125.php
Dr Who Companion Chronicles: Mahogany Murders by Andy Lane
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14121.php
Dr Who Monthly Series: Enemy Of The Daleks by David Bishop
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14122.php
Dream Of The Dragon Pool: A Daoist Quest by Albert A. Dalia
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14126.php
H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14139.php
Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14124.php
Hell Girl Volume 3: Cherry
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14140.php
Pirate Sun (book 3 of Virga) by Karl Schroeder
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14128.php
Spaceship Away Part 18 Summer 2009
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14146.php
Stand By For Action! The Music Of Barry Gray
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14144.php
Star Trek Corps Of Engineers: Grand Designs: An Anthology by Dave
Galanter, Allyn Gibson, Kevin Killiany, Paul Kupperberg, David Mack,
Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14123.php
The Art Of Iron Man by John Rhett Thomas
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14141.php
The Clouded World (The Clouded World books 3 and 4) by Jay Amory
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14132.php
The Magician's Apprentice by Trudi Canavan
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14134.php
The Mystic Arts Of Erasing All Signs Of Death by Charlie Huston
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14135.php
The Power And The Glory: Inside The Dark Heart Of John Paul II's Vatican
by David Yallop
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14127.php
The Tel Aviv Dossier by Lavie Tidharand Nir Yaniv
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14130.php
The Unincorporated Man by Dani Kollin & Eytan Kollin
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14129.php
Twisted Metal (The Robot Wars book 1) by Tony Ballantyne
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14138.php
x marks the spot for Conversions August 2009
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14119.php
Zima Blue And Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/nz14143.php
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TO ERR IS EVERYTHING
The world is made from mistakes. When I first started writing this
editorial I was only considering the history of mankind but it is
actually the basis of everything in existence. After all, a stable
universe wouldn't have had a series of bangs that would have spawned the
various galaxies. Stability would mean nothing at all happened. I mean,
you'd hardly choose an explosion to start everything off if there was a
better option, would you?
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/features/arc/2009/nz14117.php
DO YOU LIKE CURLING UP AND READING A BOOK?
Do you have a preference for fantasy, SF or horror? Do you find it the
greatest pastime you have next to being on your computer? Are you very
vocal about what you like and don't like in what you read? Would you
like to share your thoughts with others about books? Would you like an
endless supply of books to do this with? Do you live in the UK?
If you've been nodding your head up to this point then link in below and
see if you have what it takes to be a reviewer at SFCrowsnest. If you
have that special knack to read and write or want to develop said skill
then the only way you're going to find out is to take the plunge
yourself rather than wait for others to do it first. It's got to be
better than waiting for the sun to come out. Check out our recruitment
procedures through the following link and let me decide if you have what
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Stephen Hunt's third fantasy novel set in the Jackelian world...
THE RISE OF THE IRON MOON
From the author of The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
comes a thrilling new adventure set in the same Victorian-style world.
Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless
orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign
vagrant from the North after accidentally killing one of her guards. Her
strange rescuer claims he is on the run himself from terrible forces who
mean to enslave the Kingdom of Jackals as they conquered his own nation.
Purity doubts his story, until reports begin to filter through from
Jackals' neighbours of the terrible Army of Shadows, Maying across the
continent and sweeping all before them. But there's more to Purity than
meets the eye.
As Jackals girds itself for war against an army of near-unkillable
beasts serving an ancient evil with a terrible secret, it soon becomes
clear that their only hope is a strange little royalist girl and the
last, desperate plan of an escaped slave.
Available for pre-order now on Amazon - click here.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007232225?ie=UTF8&tag=scienficticrowst&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0007232225
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Online Game of the Month
You want to drive the Martian dune buggy? Man, you promised me it would
be my turn today. Jeez, I wish I had never come on holiday to Mars with
you now. Next year, I want to do an exotic holiday to Alpha Centurai.
Now push over and give me the frakking joystick.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/games/2576-Mars-Buggy.html
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- SCIFI Now
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/blog.php?user=SciFiNow
- Day Dream
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/blog.php?user=DayDream
- Mulluane
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/blog.php?user=Mulluane
- Turner
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/blog.php?user=Turner
- Bob Lock
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/blog.php?user=BobLock
- FantasySci
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/blog.php?user=fantasysci
- Scrybe Press
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/profile.php?user=ScrybePress
Set up your own fantasy/SF blog here.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/user_blog.php
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Con: Version 25
21/08/2009 - 23/08/2009
Canada - Calgary
Science Fiction Con.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/events/arc/2008/nz13444.php
Fantasticon 2009
29/08/2009 - 29/08/2009
Denmark - Copenhagen
Science Fiction Con.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/events/arc/2008/nz13443.php
The Turtle Moves
04/09/2009 - 07/09/2009
United States - Tempe
Discworld Books.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/events/arc/2007/nz11951.php
More sci-fi events at...
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/events/arc/lists/hm_events.php
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RANDOM RECENT HIVEMIND MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Favourite SFF books: Terry Dowling: Wormwood, Philip K. Dick: The Three
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Lucius Shepard: Life During Wartime, Peter
Watts: Starfish, J.G. Ballard: Crash, Alastair Reynolds: Revelation
Space.
About him: I'm a SF geek for life who's too young to be this old.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/hivemind/home.php
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+++ Stephen Hunt's THE KINGDOM BEYOND THE WAVES - Paperback out now
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Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilisation of
Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have
conquered hunger, war and disease -- tempering the race of man's baser
instincts by the creation of the perfect pacifist society.
It is an obsession that is to cost her dearly. She returns home to the
Kingdom of Jackals from her latest archaeological misadventure to
discover that the university council has finally stripped her of her
position in retaliation for her heretical research. Without official
funding, Amelia has no choice but to accept the offer of patronage from
the man she blames for her father's bankruptcy and suicide, the fiercely
intelligent and incredibly wealthy Abraham Quest.
He has an ancient crystal-book that suggests the Camlantean ruins are
buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of
Liongeli. Amelia undertakes an expedition deep into the dark heart of
the jungle, blackmailing her old friend Commodore Black into ferrying
her along the huge river of the Shedarkshe on his ancient u-boat.
With an untrustworthy crew of freed convicts, Quest's force of female
mercenaries on board and a lunatic steamman safari hunter acting as
their guide, Amelia's luck can hardly get any worse. But she's as yet
unaware that her quest for the perfect society is about to bring her own
world to the brink of destruction!
HARDBACK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007232209/ref=nosim/scienficticrowst
PAPERBACK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingdom-Beyond-Waves-Stephen-Hunt/dp/0007232217
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The Book of Eli - the kick ass trailer
Imagine Kane from the TV series Kung Fu going across a nuked-up future
America and you have a good idea of Denzel Washington's latest scifi
film, The Book of Eli. Crikes, the future seems grim these days.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14113.php
SGU Stargate Universe trailer
New trailer for SGU Stargate Universe trailer - boy, is this one shaping
up. It looks a lot less like Stargate Voyager now, too. And with lines
like "It looks like we've entered the Hoth system" (que ice planet),
this might yet be the best StarGate ever.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14114.php
Trailer for Halo Legends anime
Here's the first trailer for the Halo Legends anime. Wow, that was
quick. Bill Gates is obviously eager to get his hand on all that anime
loot (yeah, like he needs it).
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14115.php
2009 Mythopoeic award winners
Who are the winners of this year's Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for the best
fantasy novels? Well, we've got an inkling!
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14107.php
New Sherlock Holmes trailer
Steampunk fans rejoice, for there is a new trailer online for the next
glossy Sherlock Holmes film. It looks more of an action flick than the
cerebral Holmes we know and love, though. Has it been sexed up for joe
public? Are the gadgets and bad guys for Steampunks? Elementary, my dear
cinema goer...
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14108.php
The Lightning Thief
Book one of the Percy Jackson series makes it to the big screen in what
many, we are told by our Hollywood friends, are hoping will become the
next YA Harry Potter-sized film franchise. Oh dear, lightning doesn't
strike twice. Just ask Zeus!
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14109.php
Aliens In The Attic Kung Fu Grandma
A trailer for one of the more odd movies to make it to the big screen -
Aliens In The Attic Kung Fu Grandma. Aliens use mind control technology
to possess a grandma and turn her into a kung fu master. The younger
members of her family fight back with the same tech.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14110.php
Trailer for White Out creeps out of the snow
Trailer for a new SF horror movie called White Out (based on the graphic
novel of the same name). Looks kind of like a remake of the Thing.
Researchers at a remote Antarctic station looking for meteors find
something terrible under the snow, and have to survive on their own
until help reaches them.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14111.php
Halo the anime
Microsoft, in collaboration with some anime types, is looking to produce
a series of original anime short films, to be called Halo Legends. Halo
Legends, which officially debuted at a Comic-Con panel today, is being
produced by Microsoft's 343 Industries and features creative direction
from anime creator Shinji Aramaki, director of the Appleseed and
Appleseed EX Machina movies, and Mamoru Oshii, director of Ghost in the
Shell.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14112.php
New trailer from 9
A cybernetic glider-raptor attacks our little band of knit-wear
adventurers. They bravely fend it off inside an old human church.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14105.php
Rotten Row
John Jarrold has sold an SF novella by Chaz Brenchley, Rotten Row, to
Peter Crowther at PS Publishing. Rotten Row is set in the same universe
as his short story Terminal, which was shortlisted for the BSFA award
and will be reprinted together with the novella.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14106.php
The 11th Doctor begins work: Matt Smith is in the house
Production, we are told, has started today on the new series of Doctor
Who, in which BBC One viewers will meet the 11th Doctor and his
companion - Amy Pond (aka Karen Gillan) - for the very first time. Matt
Smith of Party Animals fame plays the latest incarnation of our
favourite time lord.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14103.php
Guy Haley from Death Ray magazine in shameless plug horror
Guy Haley from the UK-based glossy science fiction title Death Ray has
just sent in a shameless plug for his magazine.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14104.php
He's bad, he's Sinbad
Giant Flick Films is reviving the Middle Eastern fantasy adventures of
Sinbad the Sailor as a new movie. Called Sinbad The Fifth Voyage, the
film is due for a 2010 release, and will, we are promised, be
reminiscent of the stop-motion animation movies of Ray Harryhausen.
Director David Winning of Stargate Atlantis and Andromeda fame, is
slated to head up the movie.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14100.php
Doctor Who gets the Viz treatement: as Doctor Poo
Forget Doctor Who, here's Doctor Poo and his quest through space and
time to find somewhere to, ahem, drop his rubbish. Yes, Dr Who gets the
Viz treatment. Watch the animation and weep.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14101.php
Phyllis Fay Gotlieb passes away
Man, sometimes the Nest resembles a big obit. column at the back of a
newspaper. More sad news just in following the death of Locus founder
Charlie Brown - Phyllis Fay Gotlieb, the Canadian science fiction writer
who the Sunburst Awards are named after (her first novel was of course,
Sunburst), passed away yesterday.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14098.php
Wrath of The Lemming Men By Toby Frost
Toby Frost's third humorous SF/steampunk novel, Wrath of The Lemming
Men, has just been published by Myrmidon Books, and is even part of a
3-for-2 promotion at Waterstone's. Can you feel your wallet parting?
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14099.php
War of the Worlds: Goliath
Here comes a new steampunk anime movie set in 1914. In 1900, invaders
from Mars attacked the Earth. The Martian's 80 ft tall, heat-ray
spewing, Tripod battle machines laid waste to the planet, but the
invaders ultimately fell prey to Earth's tiny bacteria. Fourteen years
later, Man has rebuilt his shattered world, in large part by utilising
captured Martian technology. War of the Worlds: Goliath will feature
heat rays, steam-powered battle Tripods, souped up biplane and triplane
fighters, a 1,500-foot long, armoured battle Zeppelin and a re-imagined
steampunk New York City are some of the visuals that are being brought
to life in this production.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14096.php
Locus magazine founder Charles N Brown dies
Long-time science fiction fan and founder of Locus magazine, the monthly
news magazine of the SFF genre, Charles N Brown, has passed away at the
grand old age of 71... he went like a true fan, on the journey back from
science fiction con Readercon.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14097.php
District 9 - second trailer
Second trailer for the science fiction movie that looks like Alien
Nation crossed with The Wire. This trailer has some cool shots of an
alien refugee robot (or possibly power armoured alien), and one of the
refugees on the run making off in a shuttle-sized space ship while South
African cops try to bring it down with a rocket launcher. We have high
hopes for this film in the Nest.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14093.php
Futile Flame
Here comes the second volume in Sam Stone's Vampire Gene trilogy of
novels. Published by the UK small press, The House of Murky Depths, the
novel follows the life of Lucrezia Borgia as she struggles with love,
betrayal and vampirism in sixteenth Century Italy.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14094.php
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: what, there was an author
involved?
Bestselling fantasy author Stephen Hunt dimly recalls there was an
author involved with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. What was
her name? JK something? Did quite well in the Sunday Times Rich list,
once-upon-a-time? Don't worry if you forgot too, because at least you
got to see Emma Watson in a wet T-shirt contest.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14095.php
Day One
New science fiction TV series from NBC which looks like it's blending a
whole load of different movies and shows. Asteroid strikes wipe out most
of Earth's society and technology, and then alien stuff starts growing
in the ruins. It's an invasion, but there's a condo block full of heroes
ready to become the resistance, led by a resident who might be a
friendly alien.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14091.php
Maxim Jakubowski's Best of British Science Fiction
One of the UK's most prestigious commentators on science fiction, Maxim
Jakubowski (founder of the much-missed Murder One bookshops), names his
top ten science fiction novels. Stephen Hunt's The Kingdom Beyond the
Waves is there, just a couple of days after being voted number seven in
the top twenty fantasy novels at the Legend Award.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14092.php
Terry Pratchett's Going Postal is Going TV!
Production on the TV sersion of Terry Pratchett's fantasy novel Going
Postal has now started. Terry Pratchett's 33rd discworld book, shooting
for Going Postal is happening in Ankh-Morphork - aka Budapest, Hungary.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14088.php
Superman's home opened to the public
The Superman-themed Cleveland-based Screaming Tiki Super-Con event (July
10th-12th 2009) will see actors, writers and artists come to the
convention, and in an event to honour the memory of Superman's creators,
Cleveland natives Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the two Glenville
teenagers who created Superman in the mid 1930s, there will be a
ribbon-cutting ceremony at Jerry Siegel's restored childhood home
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14089.php
La Horde
Trailer for a French language zombie movie whose elevator pitch probably
ran as something like: think Fort Apache the Bronx, where cops and
criminals have to team up to fight off the undead. Ooh La La.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14090.php
Golden Cob awards 2009
The B Movie Celebration will be hosting their second Golden Cob Awards
for Excellence in B Movies. This year The B Movie Celebration is asking
your help in determining who wins the Cob. Ah, the horror, the horror.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14087.php
The Box
SF/horror-type movie from the same team that did Donnie Darko. Cameron
Diaz plays a badly credit-crunched mom who is given a box by a devilish
stranger. On it is a button. If she presses the button, a supposedly
random person will die, and she will get a million dollars. A mind game
by shape-shifing aliens, a test by Old Nick? But don't tell the cops.
The stranger has employees everywhere. Looks like a cool cult hit SFF
thriller.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14084.php
The Estuary
Irish writer, Derek Gunn's latest horror novel, The Estuary, has been
released by Permuted Press. According to the author, The Estuary is a
horror adventure tale about a desperate plan formulated in the darkest
years of an evil empire, which now threatens to engulf the residents of
a small community in Southern Ireland.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14085.php
Edge Hill Short Story Prize won by science fiction author
Science fiction author Chris Beckett has walked away with £5000 (c. US
$10,000) after winning the mainstream Edge Hill literary award, we are
informed by his agent, John Jarrold, who is obviously over the moon.
Chris's work The Turing Test was published by the now dead Elastic
Press, seeing off more mainstream publishers such as Cape and Faber.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14086.php
Top twenty fantasy books for 2009
Deborah J Miller, the award administrator for the The David Gemmell
Legend Award for Fantasy has just published the top twenty fantasy
novels from the long-list in order of votes received. Our own sugar
daddy, Stephen Hunt's novel, The Kingdom Beyond The Waves, was in at
number seven.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14080.php
popCULT
John Jarrold has sold limited-edition rights in popCULT!, a novel by UK
author David Barnett, to Chris Teague at Welsh publisher Pendragon
Press. David is the Assistant Editor of the Bradford Telegraph and Argus
newspaper, and has had two earlier novels published by Immanion Press,
Hinterland and Angelglass. He also writes regular blogs for the Guardian
books website.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14081.php
Nguyen is Boomer (true)
SFcrowsnest reader and scifi fan down under, Nguyen, sends us in some
footage of her at the Australian Supanova con. It's a big genre event
down there, and she loves to dress up as Boomer from Battlestar
Galactica. I'm more of a No. 6 girl myself.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14083.php
Planet 51
There's no space like home. Trailer for an animated scifi movie that
reads like ET reversed - human astronaut lands on alien planet and has
to be hidden by alien kid and helped back to his in-orbit return module.
ET has a whole 1950s retro look going on, so lots of opps. to lampoon
all the science fiction movies of the period.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14074.php
A Quantum Quest to Comic-Con
A Quantum Quest panel, featuring film composer Shawn Clement and
co-director and writer/producer Dr. Harry Kloor, will speak at Comic-Con
on Thursday, July 23rd 2009 from 12pm-1pm in Ballroom twenty at the San
Diego Convention Center. Shawn Clement scored the animated film Quantum
Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, which takes viewers on a solar safari
through the universe.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14075.php
Realms of Fantasy rescued from oblivion
Sci-fi publisher Tir Na Nog Press have purchased the recetly defunct
Realms of Fantasy magazine from Sovereign Media.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14076.php
The City & The City (in the city)
China Miéville talks about his new weird detective novel The City & The
City - UK tour details are here.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14077.php
From SCI FI to SyFy
SCI FI officially becomes Syfy on-air and online via Syfy.com in the USA
on Tuesday July 7th 2009.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14078.php
Tor Books goes for an EVE Online novelisation
Tor Books are set to publish a new space opera set in the universe of
EVE Online, a science fiction MMOG.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14079.php
Horror is back
Julie Crisp of Pan Macmillan in London has concluded a World Rights deal
with John Jarrold, for two untitled horror novels by British author Adam
L G Nevill, after a hard-fought auction.
http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/news/arc/2009/nz14082.php
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Stephen Hunt's +++ THE COURT OF THE AIR +++
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When streetwise Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel
she has recently been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to run back
to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow
orphans butchered, and it slowly dawns on her that she was the real
target of the attack. For Molly carries a secret deep in her blood, a
secret that marks her out for destruction by enemies of the state.
Oliver brooks has led a sheltered existence in the backwater home of his
merchant uncle. But when he is framed for his only relative's murder he
is forced to flee for his life, accompanied by a agent of the mysterious
Court of the Air. Chased across the country, Oliver finds himself in the
company of thieves, outlaws and spies, and gradually learns more about
the secret that has blighted his life.
Soon Molly and Oliver will find themselves battling a grave threat to
civilisation, an ancient power thought to have been quelled millennia
ago.
Their enemies are ruthless and myriad, but indomitable friends in this
endlessly inventive tale full of drama, intrigue and adventure also aid
the two orphans.
"An inventive, ambitious work, full of wonders and marvels."
- THE TIMES newspaper: May 7, 2007 (Review: Hardback edition, The Court
of the Air)
"Hunt can take his place alongside such eminent Magratheans as JRR
Tolkien, Mervyn Peake and China Mieville. Creating a fully realised
other-world which feels new and different, yet cohesive and believable
is half the battle in a fantasy novel, and it is a battle Hunt wins with
honours... Hunt's world is so rich and colourful it keeps you engrossed
... It's a confident audacious novel."
- SFX magazine: AUGUST 2009 (Review: Hardback edition, The Court of the
Air)
"The characters are convincing and colourful, but the real achievement
is the setting, a hellish take on Victorian London where grim,
steam-driven machines work beside citizens with magical powers. The
Court of the Air is aimed at young adults, but the depth and complexity
of Hunt's vision makes it compulsive reading for all ages."
- THE GUARDIAN newspaper: May 21st 2007 (Review: Hardback edition, The
Court of the Air)
'Wonderfully assured ... Hunt knows what his audience like and gives it
to them with a sardonic wit and carefully developed tension'
TIME OUT magazine: October 2007 (Review: Paperback edition, The Court of
the Air)
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One of the nice things about being online is that SFcrowsnest can
publish slightly off-the-wall material that would never find a home in a
highly targeted advertising-ruled print magazine world. An article we
always trot out as an example of this, is Uncle Geoff's piece about what
the heck fuel & engine combination the Thunderbirds craft might have
used in the classic 1960s TV series of the same name.
Let's face it, you're never going to read the likes of that in Analog,
Starlog, Starburst, Interzone or the rest of the print world's
publications! If there's an article inside you - could be continuity
errors in Andromeda, your latest work of short fiction, or just why you
think Iain Banks' novels are the greatest SF since a little man called
Verne put pen to paper - do drop Geoff a line below. Articles, fiction,
reviews and pieces you've already completed should ideally be submitted
as Microsoft Word attachments.
Contact Uncle Geoff in the rainy English countryside at
contrib-@sfcrowsnest.com
We still fund this puppy's bandwidth and other miscellaneous expenses
out of our own pocket, so the spirit of volunteerism is about the only
thing that keeps our happy ship in hyperspace. Any time, articles,
stories or reviews you can submit are always appreciated.
Current requirements: AUGUST 2009
- short fiction
- articles
- comment pieces
- convention reports
- web site reviews
- book reviewers (see below)
- Television reviews ... Stargate, Andromeda, Trek etc
- Movie reviews
- Games reviews ... RPGs, scenarios, wargames etc
- SFF models and figures ... reviews, painting tips, scratchbuilds,
conversions
BTW, if you're interested in becoming a book or DVD reviewer, we'd
really, really (no, really) appreciate it if you were UK-based. Posting
out the hundred of goodies we get every week is an expensive business,
and extra airmail costs could lead to Geoff, Jessica, Mark and Steve
eating dog food in a crazed economy-drive of death. Of course, if you're
based in the US, Canada or Australia and you fancy reviewing your own
drip-feed of goodies resulting from your science fiction and fantasy
addiction, then that okay by us ... but we can't supply you ourselves!
Sorry.
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