Roger Zelazny Collections from NESFA Press
The New England Science Fiction Association is the group behind Boskone and NESFA Press, and during 2009, they are publishing the collection stories of Roger Zelazny. Volume 1: Threshold and Volume 2: Power & Light are already available. Coming in July 2009: Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain Volume 4: Last Exit to Babylon Coming in December 2009: Volume 5: Nine Black Doves Volume 6: The Road to... [Read More...]
A Remake of Triffids?
The Day of the Triffids is being remade. On the upside, it’s being done by the BBC: BBC’s apocalyptic “Triffids” sets cast By Mimi Turner LONDON — Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Eddie Izzard and Jason Priestley are to star in a TV remake of the apocalyptic sci-fi drama “The Day of the Triffids,” based on the 1951 John Wyndham... [Read More...]
Tor.com, a new blog and community site for SF lovers
In addition to my long-time duties as a Kick-Ass Mystic Ninja, which of course outweigh any obligations to friends, family, or nation, I work as an associate editor at St. Martin’s Press, a book publisher in New York City. St. Martin’s is a part of Macmillan, which in turn owns Tor, the biggest and baddest SF publisher around. And Tor has just launched Tor.com, a publisher-agnostic blog... [Read More...]
Great Things Come to Those Who Wait
2008 is an auspicious year. It’s the year that Matt Stover’s epic Heroes Die becomes eligible for KAMN discussion. This is the book that rekindled my interest in fantasy by showing me that fantasy could be so much more, and yes, validating the feeling that I hadn’t been getting enough story in my stories. I was honored to finally meet Matt at a World Fantasy Con a few years back,... [Read More...]
KAMN Reviews?
Since Dragon Page Cover to Cover has thrown the door open to more contributor reviews, both in audio and print form, I’d like to do the same thing here. There are a lot of books and movies and tv shows that we won’t get to, or at least not get to any time soon, so I don’t see any reason why we can’t post written reviews here, or include the occassional audio review in a KAMN... [Read More...]
Poltergeist: 25th Anniversary Screenings
Ha! I’m not the only one who thinks Poltergeist is a cult classic that people remember! Fathom Events is promoting theatrical screenings of Poltergeist all across the US on October 4th, to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The complete list of theaters having anniversary screenings includes three locations in the Phoenix area. Although I dislike seeing movies on Friday nights, I may have to make... [Read More...]
Madeleine L’Engle
I missed this news, but Madeleine L’Engle passed away on September 6 at the age of 88. She was the author of over 60 novels, but her most noted novels were Time Quartet, consisting of the Newbery Award-winning A Wrinkle in Time (1962), and it’s sequels A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986). I have fond memories of those first three books from... [Read More...]
Fred Saberhagen
Fred Saberhagen passed away on June 29 from cancer. I didn’t know until a “Cover to Cover” listener sent me an email about it. The announcement had even been posted to Slice of SciFi, and I didn’t know. To say the least, I was stunned. I never got hooked by his Berserker series as some other friends of mine did back in the day, but I liked the “Empire of the East”... [Read More...]
Scott Sigler’s Ancestor on Amazon
Ancestor, the newest book from Scott Sigler, is available now at Amazon.com. Go get it! Read More →
Scott Sigler’s “Ancestor”: The Print Version
Scott Sigler’s Evil Plan ™ continues to unfold. He’s passing out the full-length PDF of Ancestor, and wants everyone who wants to get the print version of the book to go to Amazon and order it on April 1st. Read. Go. Now. Read More →
Win a Trip to the Nebula Awards in New York
ABE Books and The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have just launched a contest where they will be giving a pair of SciFi & Fantasy fans a great fun weekend at the Nebula Awards in New York on May 11-12, 2007. A pair of banquet tickets and two nights in the event hotel will go to the winner. The contest is free and open to everyone. Battlestar Galactica’s executive producer... [Read More...]
CASFS Book Club
For those of you living in the Central Arizona area, and if you happen to be free at 7pm on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, you might want to check out the CASFS Book Discussion gathering. The Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society is the energetic gang that brings you CopperCon and HexaCon each year, in addition to publishing the fan newsletter ConNotations. Once a month, at The Bent Cover bookstore... [Read More...]
Original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD
Brad of PodCulture writes: I am sure you’ve already run across this news, but just in case I’ve included the text and link for the article. Thanks for a great show! The original Star Wars Trilogy to be released on DVD No, Brad, I actually had no idea this was happening. Can’t you tell from listening to the show that I don’t really know much of anything about science fiction?... [Read More...]
Free TV downloads available
We’ve been talking about AOL and Time Warner’s new broadband video collaboration, In2TV quite a bit over at The Babylon Podcast, simply because they are making the entire series available for free download. However, there are some other shows that might be of interest to the KAMN audience: The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Pinky and the Brain, the animated Beetlejuice, Lois and Clark:... [Read More...]
New York Times Science Fiction Book Reviewer
I’m incredibly pleased to discover that the New York Times has finally deigned to form a science fiction book review column. This is long overdue: Science fiction, as we all know, is just as valid a literary form as any other. The first review (link) is of David Marusek’s Counting Heads. You may recall that I reviewed that worthy book myself on the Dragon Page (link). This is good news,... [Read More...]
