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 Fantasy and SF worlds that have featured in Stephen Hunt's novels

The Jackelian World:

The Kingdom Beyond the Waves (Paperback UK edition)

A hugely engaging adventure set in a Victorian-style world - a fantastical version of Dickens - that will appeal to fans of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman.

Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilization of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war and disease with the creation of a perfect pacifist society.

But when she returns home to Jackals from her latest archaeological misadventure she finds that the university council has stripped her of her position in retaliation for her heretical research.

Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Voyager
Publication date: 1st Sept 2008
ISBN: 978-0007232215

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Without official funding, Amelia has no choice but to accept the offer of patronage from the man she blames for her father's bankruptcy and suicide, the fiercely intelligent Abraham Quest. He has found evidence that suggests the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli.

Amelia undertakes an expedition deep into the dark heart of the jungle, blackmailing her old friend Commodore Black into ferrying her across the huge river of the Shedarkshe in his ancient u-boat.

With an untrustworthy crew of freed convicts, Quest's force of fiercesome female mercenaries on board and a lunatic steamman safari hunter acting as their guide, Amelia's luck seems to be going from bad to worse. And she's as yet unaware that her quest for the perfect society is about to bring her own world to the brink of destruction...

 

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Feature articles from Issue 219. February 2012.

Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (Mark's take)
01/02/2012. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol still does not have the hang of what made the TV show so good. Instead of an intelligent puzzle for the viewer, it offers mindless excitement in one action stunt from Tom Cruise after another. But given that it is a Tom Cruise vanity piece and a mindless action film, it is one of the best mindless action films of 2011. Considerably better than the previous entries of the "Mission Impossible" series formerly animation director Brad Bird gives us quite a ride in his first live-action film. The film is a mixed bag of elements, but some are very good.

Dreaming while wide awake
01/02/2012. Writing stories is akin to dreaming while wide awake, except it’s depicted in words rather than dream images. It’s often said that everyone has at least one decent story in them. The problem a lot of the time is finding it. You should see my own ideas file as I’m still looking.

Whatever happened to the Megalomaniac?
01/02/2012. Wanted: Megalomaniac. Must be prepared to sit in a chair and look menacing. Desire to rule the world a must. Being totally ruthless as asset. A speculation by: GF Willmetts.

The Strange Case Of Angelica (Mark's take)
01/01/2012. This film is a Portuguese fantasy written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira. The pace is operatic and slow enough so that there is not much story here. Some dreamlike photography and a soothing musical score are pluses but slow, draggy telling is likely to frustrate the viewer and pay off with far too little reward for the effort of watching.

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Book, Comic, Magazine & Film Reviews from Issue 219. February 2012.

X marks the spot for book conversions

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive by Davd Fisher

The Almighty Johnsons

Reasonable Atheism by Scott F. Aiken and Robert B. Talisse

Laddertop Volume One by Orson Scott Card & Emily Janice Card and illustrated by Honoel A. Ibardolaza

Star Wars: Millennium Falcon: Owner's Workshop Manual by Ryder Windham, Chris Reliff and Chris Trevans

Manhattan In Reverse by Peter F. Hamilton

A Sci-Fi Swarm And Horror Horde by Tom Weaver

Alien Contact edited by Marty Halpern

Samurai's Blood # 6 of 6 by Owen Wiseman, Nam Kim, Matthew Dalton & Sakti Yumono

The Juniper Tree And Other Blue Rose Stories by Peter Strawb

Dragon Age: Asunder by David Gaider

Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem And The Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted by Nicholas Briggs

Doctor Who Monthly Series: Witch From The Well by Rick Briggs

Doctor Who Monthly Series: House Of Blue Fire by Mark Morris

Doctor Who: The Creature From The Pit by David Fisher

Doctor Who: Galaxy Four by William Emms

Doctor Who Companion Chronicles: The First Wave by Simon Guerrier

Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography

Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography

Doctor Who: Serpent Quest 4: The Invasion of Hexford Part 4 by Paul Magrs

Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James

Doctor Who: Sound Effects

Greasepaint And Gore: The Hammer Monsters Of Roy Ashton by Bruce Sachs and Russell Wall

On Spec: The Canadian Magazine Of The Fantastic vol 23 no. 3 # 86

Regicide by Nicholas Royle

Runemarks by Joanne Harris

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Fleet Of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner

Doctor Who: City Of Death by David Agnew (actually Douglas Adams and Graham Williams)

Ray Harryhausen's Fantasy Scrapbook by Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton

The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2012 Volume 122 # 699

Inside Cyber Warfare by Jeffrey Carr

Supernatural: The Complete Second Season Boxset

The Divided Crown by Isabel Glass

Promises To Keep by Charles de Lint

Them Or Us by David Moody

Doctor Who: Destiny Of The Daleks by Terry Nation

Green Lantern (2011)

Build Your Own Time Machine by Brian Clegg

Make: Ultimate Kit Guide special issue

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett

Rat Trap by Michael J. Daley

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Daily news.

DC spends a million dollars on new logo
20/01/2012. DC Comics has revealed its new brand identity, which is, they say, "reflective of the company's mission to fully realise the value of a rich portfolio of brands, stories and characters, distinguished by incredible breadth and depth across publishing, media and merchandise." Well, if they say so.

NASA discovers first Earth-size planets beyond our Solar System
20/12/2011. NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, but they are the smallest exoplanets ever confirmed around a star like our sun.

Steelhaven
20/12/2011. John Wordsworth, Commissioning Editor at Headline, has concluded a pre-emptive three-book World rights deal for an epic fantasy series by UK author Richard Ford with the agent John Jarrold. The first volume is provisionally titled Steelhaven.

The Amazing Spider-Man
15/12/2011. Here's the latest suite of photos from the next Spidey reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. Directed rather appropriately by Marc Webb!

Doctor Who named top TV show in US charts
13/12/2011. Series six of the world’s longest running science fiction TV series Doctor Who has pipped US home-grown favourites such as Dexter, The Walking Dead and Glee to become 2011’s most downloaded show (season) on iTunes in America.

Mrs Dickens' family Christmas
13/12/2011. As the nation prepares to celebrate the festive season, there’s one man whose name is synonymous with Christmas and whose prose depicted the season as a wonderful time for the family to get together and forget about their troubles.

Matt Smith interviewed in the wardrobe
13/12/2011. The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe is Matt Smith’s second Christmas outing as the Doctor and this time he doesn’t have his trusted companions, ‘The Ponds’, by his side. However, it hasn’t stopped him relishing in another Christmassy adventure and here he reveals what Doctor Who has in store for festive viewers.

Claire Skinner interviewed: Dr Who Xmas 2011
13/12/2011. An interview with actress Claire Skinner (of Outnumbered fame), who plays Madge Arwell in the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas Special. This is the seventh Christmas special since the show’s revival in 2005.

Alexander Armstrong interviewed: Doctor Who Christmas 2011
13/12/2011. An interview with Alexander Armstrong who plays Reg Arwel in the Doctor Who Christmas Special. The story is set during World War II and is about a family of Blitz refugees, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, who have to relocate to Dorset, where they meet the Doctor.

BBC to launch new series of Doctor Who games
13/12/2011. The BBC has released the details of a new gaming development for the Doctor Who TV prog. Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock will be the first of a series of Doctor Who console games developed by BBC Worldwide Digital Entertainment and Games.

Solaris buys Gaie Sebold's Hunter's Moon
13/12/2011. Jonathan Oliver, commissioning editor of Solaris Books, has acquired Hunter’s Moon by Gaie Sebold, a sequel to Babylon Steel - the opening volume of a fantasy series to be published in January 2012.

Hero Of The Empire: steampunk from David Barnett
13/12/2011. Claire Eddy, Senior Editor at Tor Books in New York, has concluded a three-book World English Language rights deal for British author David Barnett, for a strong five-figure sum in US dollars. The agent was John Jarrold.

Drakenfeld
21/11/2011. Bella Pagan, Senior Commissioning Editor at Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired world rights to the first two volumes of a new fantasy series called ‘Drakenfeld’ by Mark Charan Newton. The agent was John Jarrold.

Captain Nemo steampunked by Kevin J. Anderson
21/11/2011. Author Kevin J. Anderson’s newly released novel Captain Nemo (Titan Books) tells a steampunk version of Jules Verne’s creation, Captain Nemo, builder and captain of the Nautilus and secret benefactor to the castaways on the Mysterious Island.

Liam Neeson in new War of The Worlds
21/11/2011. Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of The Worlds is returning with "The New Generation" worldwide tour in November 2012, SFcrowsnest was told this morning by Jeff Wayne and Liam Neeson.

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