Articles, news and reviews from the world of science fiction and fantasy books, movies, TV shows, comics and games. en-us http://www.SFcrowsnest.net Copyright 2005 SFcrowsnest news@sfcrowsnest.com news@sfcrowsnest.com http://www.SFcrowsnest.com/sfimages/smallogo.gif http://www.SFcrowsnest.com 156 72 http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Amazing-Stories-coming-back-soon-16838.php Amazing Stories, the world's first science fiction magazine, will begin its return to regular publication this July 1st 2012 with Volume 0, Number 1, the Relaunch Prelaunch issue. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Sunburst-Award-Society-announces-shortlists-for-12th-annual-prize-16834.php The Sunburst Award Society have announced the short-lists for this year's awards. The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is an annual award celebrating the best in Canadian fantastic literature published during the previous calendar year. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Gardens-of-Stone-16835.php Australian author Mark Barnes’s debut fantasy novel and two sequels have been acquired by 47North, Amazon Publishing’s Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror imprint, in a deal by John Jarrold, to editor David Pomerico. The first novel, titled Garden of Stones, will be published in spring 2013, with the first sequel following six months later. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Italian-deal-for-Mark-Charan-Newton-16836.php Jon Mitchell, Senior rights Manager at Macmillan, has sold Italian rights to Nights Of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton to Gargoyle, who recently acquired rights to publish Joe Abercrombie and others. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Film-Option-Deal-For-Adam-Nevills-Horror-Novel-Apartment-16-16837.php Matt and Ray Marshall of Blind Monkey Pictures, the horror offshoot of UK production company Festival Film and TV, have optioned Adam Nevill’s horror novel Apartment 16, which was successfully published in the U.K. in 2010 by Pan Macmillan. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Ray-Bradbury-RIP-16824.php Ray Bradbury has died today in LA aged 91 – he was an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery writer who will be best remembered for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, as well as the series of SF stories collected as The Martian Chronicles, and his novel The Illustrated Man. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Hellraisers-Clive-Barker-to-rewrite-Zombies-vs-Gladiators-for-Amazon-Studios-16823.php Hellraiser creator and horror writer Clive Barker will rewrite the action horror project, Zombies vs. Gladiators, for Amazon Studios. Based in ancient Rome, the Zombies vs. Gladiators story opens as a shaman who is about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that unleashes the world’s first zombies. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Two-Book-Teen-Ghost-Deal-With-SS-For-Curtis-Jobling-16816.php Venetia Gosling, Editorial Director of Simon and Schuster Children’s Books in London, has acquired world rights in two teenage ghost novels by Curtis Jobling. The first novel, titled HAUNT, will be published in 2013, with the sequel following in 2014. The agent was John Jarrold. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/STRIP-magazine-to-be-delayed-16814.php Print Media Productions has reluctantly decided to delay its planned news stand launch of STRIP from June until September 2012. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Second-Eric-Brown-Weird-Space-Novel-To-Abaddon-16817.php Jonathan Oliver, commissioning editor of Abaddon Books, has acquired SATAN’S REACH, a second Weird Space SF novel by Eric Brown. This follows on from Eric’s soon-to-be-published THE DEVIL’S NEBULA. The novel will be delivered in 2013. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/The-Legend-of-Spacelord-Mo-Fo-16821.php Ironclad Imagineers has announced the return to the comics world of Australian comics artist Glenn Lumsden. Glenn's work on Marvel's The Phantom, DC's Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and Cyclone Comics', The Southern Squadron and Dark Nebula paved the way for a generation of aspiring Aussie comic artists to come. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Batman-Earth-One-16818.php This summer will see the release of Batman: Earth One, an original graphic novel that re-imagines bats as a flawed and fallible young man fumbling his way through feelings of isolation by pinning them on a quest for vengeance. This Batman is no protector of innocents; he's an angry vigilante with little interest in heroics, and with a lot to learn about the city's mean streets. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Pax-Britannia-Times-Arrow-16820.php The caper is afoot, but where it leads only you decide. The new novel from Abaddon, Pax Britannia: Time’s Arrow, is coming. In a publishing experiment, readers themselves get to decide on the fate of our hero Ulysses and where the Time’s Arrow story will take them. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Stanley-Schmidt-Wins-2012-Robert-A-Heinlein-Award-16822.php Science Fiction editor and author Stanley Schmidt is the 2012 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award. The award is bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/The-Apex-Book-of-World-SF-2-16751.php Readers who preorder The Apex Book of World SF 2 will get extra fiction and nonfiction, as well as a chance to read the book four months before it goes on sale through major retailers. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/JJLA-now-represents-Ramsey-Campbell-translation-rights-16752.php The John Jarrold Literary Agency now represents all international translation rights fro the Grand Master of British horror fiction, Ramsey Campbell. The agency already represented UK and Commonwealth rights. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Philippine-Speculative-Fiction-16753.php The first volume of the anthology? ?Philippine Speculative Fiction,? ?which was first released in? ?2005? ,? ?is now available as an eBook on Amazon and Flipreads.? http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Ultimate-Adventure-Magazine-16754.php Ultimate Adventure Magazine Issue 2 is now available to download or read online. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Ghostwriting-16755.php The latest books from infinity plus include Eric Brown's collection of gothic and psychological horror, Ghostwriting and Iain Rowan's Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger-shortlisted novel, One of Us. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Stephen-Hunts-Far-called-trilogy-16696.php Gillian Redfearn, Editorial Director of Gollancz, has acquired world rights in a three-book fantasy series by Stephen Hunt. The first novel is titled ‘In Dark Service’, while the trilogy is the Far-Called sequence. The agent was John Jarrold and the first volume will be published in 2013. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/The-Unpleasant-Profession-of-Jonathan-Hoag-16694.php Proyas of Dark City, I, Robot, and Knowing fame is to direct Heinlein's “The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.” The film will shoot in Australia where Proyas is a resident and operates his production company, Mystery Clock Cinema. Producers are eyeing a fall 2012 start date. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Copper-CSI-goes-Victorian-16692.php BBC America has announced the channel’s first original drama, Copper, a new Victorian crime drama set in 1860s New York City. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/James-Camerons-Avatar-sequel-to-be-silent-AND-black--white-16691.php Filmmaker James Cameron's sequel to the science fiction hit movie Avatar, Avatar II: The Oceans of Deepness, is to use a revolutionary film technology to strip out all sound and colour from his next scifi epic. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Being-Human-moves-to-series-5-16639.php Being Human, BBC Three’s horror series, will return for a fifth series. The unconventional trio of a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost will live on as six more episodes, commissioned for BBC Three next year. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/China-Mieville-vs-Charles-Stross-smackdown-for-Arthur-C-Clarke-Award-16638.php Greg Bear, Drew Magary, China Miéville, Jane Rogers, Charles Stross and Sheri S. Tepper are the six authors shortlisted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK’s premier prize for science fiction literature. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/The-Walking-Dead-playing-dead-16635.php Did you know there's a computer game coming out for The Walking Dead Nope, neither did we... until now. Pass me the baseball bat, Zack, I've got me some walkers to skull. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/A-Jar-of-Wasps-16636.php Here's a new novel by Luis Villazon called A Jar of Wasps. The book, we are told, is about aliens that come to Earth, but not to see us. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Jenna-Louise-Coleman-is-new-Dr-Who-companion-16637.php Twenty-five year old Jenna from Blackpool will star alongside the 11th Time Lord, Matt Smith, to mark the biggest year in the show’s history. Best known for her roles in Emmerdale Jasmine Thomas and Waterloo Road Lindsay James, Jenna will replace Karen Gillan when she and Arthur Darvill bow out of the show in a heartbreaking departure after one final series of rollercoaster voyages later this year on BBC One. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/BBC-America-making-a-new-Victorian-crime-series-Ripper-Street-16634.php Filming has started on location in Dublin from March 12th 2012. The eight part series, created by Richard Warlow, set in and around Whitechapel in London's East End in 1889, during the aftermath of the Jack The Ripper murders. Ripper Street will star Matthew Macfadyen MI-5, Pride and Prejudice, Jerome Flynn Game of Thrones, Adam Rothenberg Alcatraz, Myanna Buring The Twilight Saga, White Heat and David Dawson Luther, Secret Diary of a Call Girl. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Japanese-scifi-anime-Ozma-hits-the-net-16633.php Viki, an international video site where TV shows and movies are translated into various languages by a community of fans, will be showing Leiji Matsumoto's Ozma, a new six-part series by the manga writer. The series will first broadcast on Friday March 16th 2012 at midnight, on Japanese satellite broadcast provider WOWOW Prime. Then 24 hours after the broadcast, it will debut on Viki.com, where fans from 200 countries will be able to view the show for the first time. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/The-Star-and-the-Rockets-14407.php Some short fiction... The Star and the Rockets by US scifi author Harry Turtledove. Aliens, Roswell and a damn fine game of baseball. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Copyright-Theft-of-the-Dead-14410.php Shaun of the Dead director ripped off by The Times, reports Scifi Wire in the US. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/The-Twilight-Saga-New-Moon-reviewed-by-Variety-14401.php The Kissy-kissy vampire movie, New Moon, is reviewed. Vampires and now hunky werewolves too http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Memorable-scifi-novel-covers-14402.php Just what are the most memorable covers that have graced the front of science fiction novels http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Neil-Gaiman-interviewed-14403.php Neil Gaiman, friend to humanity, enemy to none. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/The-overlooked-14404.php An article examining such overlooked classic 1980s science fiction films as 'The Lathe of Heaven'. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/New-Trek-DVD-got-Gorn-14393.php Gorns and Salt Vampires get a revamp in this cut footage from the recent Star Trek movie. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Being-a-best-seller-dont-mean-a-thing-14394.php Interesting article from this horror/fantasy/scifi and many other genres author, Lynn Viehl, showing that even having a US bestseller charting novel = nearly being able to claim for food stamps in America. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Star-Trek---youre-spoilering-us-14395.php The grand fromage of Star Trek II spoilers from the SyFy guys. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Alien-Legion-the-movie-14396.php The Alien Legion comic-book to get the Disney movie treatment... http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Being-me-my-carbonite-desk-14397.php Get a Han Solo forzen in carbonite desk... every government tax office should have one to cheer up visitors victims. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Save-me-for-2012-for-real-14398.php Low-IQ types worry that the movie 2012 really will happen. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/Give-me-Sanctuary-14399.php How to make a mint out of a web-based fantasy-scifi series... answer, get it picked up by the SyFy Channel people. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/posts/2009/By-Odins-blood-14400.php Some more casting news from the set of the Thor movie. Ray Stevenson, aka Titus Pullo, has been cast to play the role of Volstagg the Valiant.