Paul Malmont, author of The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
Movie Review: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
I was always a Star Wars
2011 Arthur C Clarke nominations
The nominations (shortlist) for the 2011 Arthur C Clarke awards have been announced:
- Zoo City
by Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot)
- The Dervish House
by Ian McDonald (Gollancz)
- Monsters of Men
by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
- Generosity
by Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
- Declare
by Tim Powers (Corvus)
- Lightborn
by Tricia Sullivan (Orbit)
The annual award was originally established by a generous grant from Sir Arthur C. Clarke with the aim of promoting science fiction in Britain, and is currently administered by the Serendip Foundation a voluntary organisation created to oversee the ongoing running and development of the Award. It is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year. A prize of £2011 will be awarded to the winner along with a commemorative engraved bookend.
A Dance With Dragons Release Date
A Dance With Dragons has a release date according to EW and the publisher:
Yes, we swear, after waiting six long years since the release of the last novel in the saga, the fabled Book 5 A Dance With Dragons is close enough to being finished* for Martin’s publisher to set a release date. We have that date, exclusively, along a first look at the book’s cover art and an interview with the man himself.
A Dance With Dragons will be published on July 12.
But should we believe this publication date without confirmation from the author? Well, we have confirmation:
Yes, I know. You’ve all seen publication dates before: dates in 2007, 2008, 2009. None of those were ever hard dates, however. Most of them… well, call it wishful thinking, boundless optimism, cockeyed dreams, honest mistakes, whatever you like.
This date is different. This date is real.
Barring tsunamis, general strikes, world wars, or asteroid strikes, you will have the novel in your hands on July 12. I hope you like it.
With the HBO series coming out in April, 2011 might just be the year of George R. R. Martin
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
“If you build it, he will come” is probably the most famous line from W.P. Kinsella’s baseball fairy tale Shoeless Joe
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
Sometimes an author lucks into a great story. For a mystery writer, a real live mystery is a great find. But when you have a long standing mystery that appears to be solved, but it turns into yet another mystery, then you have the makings of a great story. And when the mystery involves a great literary character such as Sherlock Holmes, then it’s calling out for a novel. Graham Moore took a real mystery and was able to turn it into The Sherlockian
Camelot on Starz
Although it isn’t scheduled to start until April, this past weekend, Starz had a sneak preview of it’s new series Camelot. When I think of Camelot, I usually think of the 1967 musical
FX orders pilot of Bendis and Oeming’s Powers
According to EW, the FX network is picking up a pilot of Bendis and Oeming’s superhero comic Powers
This seemed touch and go for awhile, but FX has given a pilot order to its superhero drama project Powers
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The story follows two detectives who investigate cases of people with extraordinary abilities, and is based on a graphic novel series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.
If you haven’t been reading Powers before, you should start now.
2010 Nebula Award Nominees
The SFWA has announced the nominees for the 2010 Nebula Awards:
- The Native Star
, M.K. Hobson (Spectra)
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US)
- Shades of Milk and Honey
, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)
- Echo
, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
- Who Fears Death
, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW) (my review)
- Blackout
/All Clear
, Connie Willis (Spectra) (my review)
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
Daniel Clowes came to the attention of the comic book world with a comic Lloyd Llewellyn
