Category: Books
Guinevere Turner in On Our Backs
According to an online extract from the current issue of On Our Backs, Guinevere Turner is set to script the upcoming Blood Rayne for the big screen. Fanboys and girls...
Bloodrayne 2
Already released for Xbox and Playstation, Bloodrayne 2 for the PC comes out in the US today. Now PC gamers can get their fill of the sultry vampire huntress who enjoys...
Weekly Playboy Japan
Indeed Weekly Playboy in Japan does not bear the US Playboy’s trademark bunny rabbit. The magazine apparently is published every week in glorious full color, as...
Back from San Diego ComicCon
As you, gentle readers, have no doubt already discerned, I am back from the San Diego Comic Con. ComicCon is always great for business for me. I got a new very lucrative...
Nebula Award Winners
The 2004 Nebula Awards for best science fiction or fantasy were presented on April 30 in Chicago, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced. The...
Free Comic Book Day!
Don’t forget that today is Free Comic Book Day! As part of an effort to raise awareness of and interest in comics, Diamond, the only serious distributor of them,...
Marvel Will Be Making Its Own Movies
Last week, Marvel finally settled with Chairman Emeritus Stan Lee over the royalties from the Spiderman movies and is now looking to produce its own movies. Marvel made...
What is the Nebula Award?
The 2005 Nebula Awards Weekend starts today. This year Anne McCaffrey, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, will be inducted as a Grand Master. Until the...
Don’t Panic
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy opens today. I keep telling myself don’t panic. I keep telling myself that Fight Club was a brilliant adaptation of a book...
How Did We Get a Digital File from Robert Rodriguez?
There is an interesting and I hope not apocryphal story about how Robert Rodriguez convinced comic book auteur Frank Miller to allow Sin City to be committed to the...
What is the Hugo Award?
The Hugo Awards are determined by the membership of each WorldCon, including both attending and supporting members. They are given to honor extraordinary works of...
The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge
Last year, science fiction author Vernor Vinge won the Hugo award for his novella “The Cookie Monster” which was originally published by Analog Science...
