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The Visitors set to Return

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Kenneth Johnson is hopeful he will get a big budget remake of his original V miniseries off the ground.  He recently wrote a sequel to his story, ignoring the second miniseries and dreadful 18 episode weekly series.  The book, released by Tor and soon to be reviewed by FM, was released in March. He recently… [Continue Reading]

Blue Sky to Weave Anubis Tapestry

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Blue Sky Studios is said to have optioned The Anubis Tapestry as one of their next projects. Blue Sky, 20th-Century Fox’s CGI animation studio, remains riding high off the success of Horton Hears a Who. The book, written and illustrated by Bruce Zick, was one of the first releases from Actionopolis in 2006 and tells… [Continue Reading]

2008 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Contents Revealed

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Editor Ellen Datlow has released her line-up for Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, the 21st-annual collection co-edited with Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant.  The mammoth book will be released by St, Martin’s Press on September 30. The table of contents includes: “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham… [Continue Reading]

Hyperion Makes it to Hollywood

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Dan Simmons has been a prolific author through the years and finally, his Hyperion books are headed for the screen. GK Films have optioned the first two titles, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion, to be produced for Warner Bros. Trevor Sands (Insidehas been signed to write the screenplay which would compress the two novels… [Continue Reading]

Shock Festival Coming in October

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Shock Festival, from madman Stephen Romano, has been picked up for release by IDW Publishing, which will cobrand this with Raw Entertainment, the packaging company headed by painter Tim Bradtsreet (Hellblazer) and actor Thomas Jane (The Punisher). Coming October 25th, the $39.99 book is a full color 350 page book measuring 9” x 12” and… [Continue Reading]

Review: Datlow’s Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

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Edited by Ellen Datlow, 384pp, Tor Books, $25.95, ISBN 978-0765315588. For most of her professional career, Ellen Datlow has assembled themed anthologies of fantasy and mostly horror. By herself, or with others, she has edited over forty collections and for Inferno she indulged herself for a change by selecting stories with no theme in mind…. [Continue Reading]

Hugo Award Nominees Announced

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The Hugo Award nominees for the best in science fiction have been announced with the awards handed out at the World Science Fiction Convention, being held in Denver this August. Best Novel The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate) Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Gollancz; Pyr) Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor; Analog… [Continue Reading]

Richard Matheson Collection in the Works

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He Is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson is coming from Gauntlet Press. The celebration takes the form of writers setting original stories in the worlds created by Matheons during his lengthy and prolific career. Edited by Christopher Conlon, the star-studded roster includes F. Paul Wilson, Joe Lansdale, Whitley Strieber, Richard Christian Matheson, William F. Nolan, Gary… [Continue Reading]

Koontz King of 2007 Horror

Recently, Publishers Weekly surveyed 2007 in books and their best selling horror title in hardcover for last year was Dean Koontz’s The Darkest Evening of the Year, which (appropriately) thirteenth overall. He was followed by Richard Bachman’s Blaze (#18). Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist topped the trade edition list with Michael Crichton’s Next heading up the… [Continue Reading]

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