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Feature articles from Issue 195. February 2010.
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus (Mark's take)
01/02/2010. Terry Gilliam's new film is a lot like his previous imaginative films, only perhaps more so. A small tacky traveling show in a caravan hides real magic. It has a gateway to a subjective land created by the visitor's own imagination. The show's owner is also genuinely immortal do to a pact he has made with Satan himself. The actual story is muddled, but the imagination of the visual imagery is very good. And Gilliam deserves admiration for having brought this film to fruition in spite of nearly impossible circumstances.
The beginning of the universe
01/02/2010. Radical unorthodox thoughts to ponder by: GF Willmetts. Having watched the UK BBC ‘Horizon’ programme about the problems of quantum gravity back in November 2009 explaining how black holes and the universe works stumping theoretical physicists with a desire for radical thinking for a new way to approach the subject got me thinking.
Third Option
01/02/2010. A story by GF Willmetts. You know how it is. You ponder on a problem for years and then over night you come up with a solution.
There's no business like snow business
01/02/2010. Just in case anyone was missing it in the UK, we’ve recently had some heavy snows in January which our media has been comparing to the snowfalls of 1963 and 1981. In celebration, Geoff looks at scifi movies that rely on snow.
9 (Mark's take)
1/1/2010. In the short film of the same title, a world ravaged by the vicious robots built by a fascist dictator, several small mute homunculi, each numbered, battle to survive. The Oscar-nominated ten-minute film is stretched to feature length. There are lots of fights and the story a little bit extended with more plot. Also voices of good actors are added to the formerly mute homunculi. But what worked in the shorter form is not as impressive as a 79-minute film.
Book, Comic, Magazine & DVD Reviews from Issue 195. February 2010.
Number Freak by Derrick Niederman
Star Trek 2 Disc Special Edition
The Ghost Quartet edited by Marvin Kaye
The Edge Chronicles: The Winter Knights by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
The Naming Of The Beasts (A Felix Castor novel) by Mike Carey
Doctor Who: Cyberman 2 by James Swallow
Sherlock Holmes: The Death And Life by David Stuart
Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: The Nightmare Fair by Graham Williams and adapted by John Ainsworth
Doctor Who: Death In Blackpool by Alan Barnes
Interzone # 226 - Jan-Feb 2010
Jupiter # 27: SF Magazine January 2010: Jupiter XXVII: Praxidike
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
Doctor Who Monthly Series: The Eternal Summer by Jonathan Morris
Doctor Who Monthly Series: Castle of Fear by Alan Barnes
Siege mini-series # 1 of 4 by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel
Vengeance of the Moon Knight # 1 by Greg Hurwitz, Jerome Opena and Dan Brown
Legion soundtrack by John Frizzell
Wormwood, Nevada by David Oppegaard
The Stars Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space
Hidden Empire audio book by Orson Scott Card
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greater Than The Sum by Christopher L. Bennett
Seeds Of Earth (Book One of Humanity's Fire) by Michael Cobley
Batman: The Cult by Jim Starlin, Bernie Wrightson and Bill Wray
Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunted Collaboration by Gregory William Mank
Impact audio book by Douglas Preston
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
Daily sci-fi and fantasy news.
The Last Airbender - first big trailer
04/02/2010. The people behind the live action version film of Avatar, aka the Last Airbender (well, M. Night Shyamalan, mainly), has tipped us off that his new movie has it's first big trailer out.
The Losers
01/02/2010. First trailer for a spy-fi flick based on the comic-strip, The Losers. A CIA suicide squad has to go against the agency when the government decides they know too much and need killing. Looks like guilty watching pleasure.
Steampunk round-up
01/02/2010. A couple of steampunk pieces, including a video clip from Abney Park's latest album, Aether Shanty, and some steampunks performing at the Oxford exhibition.
Kage Baker no more
01/02/2010. The Green Man sends in the very sad news of the death of science fiction author Kage Baker, who finally died of cancer on Sunday January 31st 2010 at the age of 58.
Give me a death worth dying for, Terry Pratchett demands
01/02/2010. Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett will present an impassioned plea for people to have the right to choose how, where and when they die when he delivers the Richard Dimbleby Lecture on BBC One tonight at 10.35pm.
Webb slinger
29/01/2010. Marc Webb is to direct the next chapter in the Spider-Man movie franchise, set to arrive in the cinemas summer 2012, SFcrowsnest has been told by Columbia Pictures and Marvel.
Legends of the Red Sun
29/01/2010. Julie Crisp, Senior Commissioning Editor at Tor UK at Pan Macmillan has concluded a second two-book world rights deal for UK fantasy author Mark Charan Newton, for an undisclosed five-figure sum. The agent was John Jarrold.
Dan Abnett: get well soon
29/01/2010. Due to author Dan Abnett’s health issues, the Horus Heresy novel Prospero Burns will now be published in Jan 2011.
Aeon Award short fiction contest
29/01/2010. Albedo One, Ireland’s magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, tells us their fifth International Aeon Award short fiction contest is on the horizon. Grand prize is 1000 Euros and publication in Albedo One. Second and third place stories win 200 and 100 Euros respectively, alongside publication in Albedo One.
Altered Visions: The Art Of Vincent Chong
29/01/2010. Vincent Chong came onto the horror and fantasy scene several years ago with a sequence of artworks. Since then he has gone on to provide cover artwork for authors such as Stephen King. Now some of his artwork is collected in Altered Visions.
Birmingham Science Fiction Group hosts Jasper Fforde
29/01/2010. Jasper Fforde switched to writing from a career in the film industry and has been publishing his novels since 2001. His first book, The Eyre Affair, kicked off the Thursday Next series, which is still ongoing and include Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten (which was nominated by the British Fantasy Society for Best Novel in 2005) and First Among Sequels.
Episode 4 of BBC3's Being Human TV series
29/01/2010. Here are 2 new episode preview clips from Episode 4 of BBC3’s ‘Being Human’ series, which airs this Sunday at 9pm on BBC3.
Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow and Aidan Turner return to Being Human
29/01/2010. Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow and Aidan Turner are, we are told, set to return for a third series of BBC Three horror drama Being Human, as the supernatural friends trying to live normal lives despite their unusual afflictions.
Sherlock Holmes with added steampunk
28/01/2010. Guy Ritchie's recent Sherlock Holmes film has been accused by many as being steampunk. You think? The movie critics oddly missed the 'other' Sherlock Holmes film of the time - which has dinosaurs, steam droids, and evil monsters.
SciFi books go digital... Steve Job's iPad
27/01/2010. Video footage of the new iPad being unveiled by my old boss, Steve Jobs. We'll be seriously looking at getting SFcrowsnest onto the new iPad, and I understand that most of my fantasy novels will be available as e-books on the new iBookStore via HarperCollins too. Now you know why I was posting pad-a-lad-a-ding-dong yesterday!
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