...ell while C.J.Cherryh, author of the Foreigner series, releases the eighth book, Pretender, on paperback and the brand-spankin’ new installment, Deliverer, on hardback both through Penguin Group USA.
SF fans get a huge dose of some qua...
...Baxter or C.J.Cherryh work will not. I'm sure there will be huge fan response to this book and in a few months there will be yet another prequel to the prequel, a sequel to the prequel, a prequel to the prequel of the sequel, and on and on into infini...
...PEGOAT by C.J.Cherryh and TO THE STORMING GULF by Gregory Benford. The 1957 Poul Anderson story AMONG THIEVES is very topical considering the recent death of this Grandmaster. There are also tales by David Drake, Cordwainer Smith, Walter Jon Williams ...
If you've gone to the mall already today and don't know why there was that long lineup outside the video game store, it's because one of the year's most highly anticipated video games went on sale starting today. GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS is the lates...
After a wait of seven months, Jack Bauer and 24 return to television with a two-hour fourth season premiere this Sunday, followed by two more hours in its new regular Monday-night slot. I've seen the first three hours, and the premiere starts off with a l...
If you've been following the column since I took over, you'll recall that I didn't think much of MEDIUM at first. The characters didn't engage me; the plots didn't thrill me; the dialogue didn't delight me. I never thought it was a particularly bad show, ...
FRIDAY THE 13th: THE FINAL CHAPTER apparently ended the killing spree of Jason Voorhees, chopped to bits with his own machete by crafty little Tommy Jarvis. To some, this signaled the end of the slasher genre and perhaps horror cinema altogether, as box o...
Yes, the new DAWN OF THE DEAD is a remake of the George Romero horror classic, itself a follow-up to his earlier groundbreaking NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. And yes, this new DAWN is derivative of or at least shares concepts with other zombie films, specif...
Watch out sci fi and fantasy fans we've got some work to do with a slew of new titles being released today. The 1632, Diablo, Ghosts of Albion, and A Song of Ice and Fire series all get new installments this week. Koji Suzuki, the literary source for the ...
...ore & C.J.Cherryh (Paizo Publishing)
75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first pub...
Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 2007) – Boysenberry Books, the new boys' love imprint from Broccoli Books, has a new website, http://www.boysenberrybooks.com, launching today. The website will contain constant updates about upcoming boys love titles. A...
Los Angeles, CA (February 21, 2007) - Broccoli Books has announced their boys love imprint name, Boysenberry Books, and will launch it with three titles. Delivery Cupid, Pet on Duty, and Sex Friend will be released starting in summer 2007. The website for...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSMichael Suby is a recent graduate of the Berklee College of Music, achieving a degree in film scoring in May of 2000. He wrote the music to an independent science fiction epic called ABLE EDWARDS and composed the main title them...
Ever since its explosion onto the global screen in 1995, the Ghost in the Shell series has provided viewers with a profoundly philosophical, yet innovatively stylized look into a near future world where the lines between man and machine finally blur. Thro...
In light of the biggest gaming news of 2007 (thus far), this Tuesday’s schedule reinforces the fact that some of the best genre narratives don’t have to originate from the traditional literary form. Greetings all you Maniac readers and welcome...
Former WITCHBLADE writer Christina Z. is teaming with CreeD creator and GHOST RIDER artist Trent Kaniuga on CreeD: UTOPIATE, a four-issue series from Image Comics.Here's how she describes the story project:"CreeD is the dark, twisted tale of teenager, Mar...
RAY might be just another showbiz biography, albeit a very good one, but for two things. One is the noteworthy central performance by Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles. The other is Charles' music without banging us over the head with it, RAY shows us just how m...
DAWN OF THE DEAD opens today in theaters across the country. Universal Pictures/Strike Entertainment/New Amsterdam Entertainment recently held the World Premiere, at where else...The Beverly Center Mall in West Hollywood, California.Walking through the ma...
TOR Books leads the pack this month with some superlative releases. First up is HEAVY PLANET, a trade paperback compilation edition that reprints SF Grandmaster Hal Clement's Mesklin novels: MISSION OF GRAVITY and STAR LIGHT. As nerdy as this might be, I ...
Dawn of the Dead by Corona's Coming Attractions (Sat 03-13-2004)
Genre:Horror/Remake.Studio:Universal Pictures.Production Company:Beacon Communications/Strike Entertainment/New Amsterdam Entertainment.Project Phase:In the Can.Who's In It:Ving Rhames (Kenneth); Sarah Polley (Ana); Mekhi Phifer (Andre); Jake Weber (Micha...
Of all the genre collections that hit bookshelves daily, this week’s release schedule’s got one with the coolest unifying element I’ve ever encountered: one that pays homage to the stand-up citizens who provide death for hire.
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In breaking with tradition this week, a Pocket Star release has given me an excuse to spend most of my discourse on something I positively love: WARCRAFT.
Ever since playing a demo version of the original Warcraft (on a Shuckysoft shareware CD) a...
Ray’s (Robert Patrick) a pathetic loser who runs a video store and likes to exchange movie quips with his film savvy employee. Harley (Jennifer Esposito) is a hard rocking ex-convict who crosses paths with soft spoken dork Ray, starting up a string of eve...
Park Chan-wook's vampire tale Thirst has been grabbed by Universal Pictures and Focus Features, reports Variety. The film, which is already in production, has so far been ran by Korean major CJ Entertainment but the two are hopping on board to invest and ...
...ore & C.J.Cherryh (Paizo Publishing)
75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first pub...
With the remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD now currently filming in Toronto, we've been waiting to hear a firsthand report of what it's like fighting off wave after wave of dead folk. Thanks to an early morning email from R.T., we've now got a firsthand account ...