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/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/news/2012/Author-Gareth-L-Powell-has-signed-up-with-the-John-Jarrold-Literary-Agency-16628.php Gareth studied Humanities and Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. He has since given guest lectures on creative writing at Bath Spa University, and has written a series of non-fiction articles on science fiction for The Irish Times. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Dirk-Gently-coming-back-to-BBC4-16573.php Starring Stephen Mangan as Douglas Adams’ self-styled Holistic Detective. Perennially broke and morally dubious, Dirk’s methods are based on ‘The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things’. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Karen-Gillan-joins-official-Doctor-Who-Con-line-up-16574.php The BBC has confirmed today that Karen Gillan will be joining her co-stars Matt Smith and Arthur Darvill at the official Doctor Who Convention taking place on the 24th and 25th March 2012 at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Juliet-E-McKenna-climbs-the-Wizards-tower-16568.php Wizard’s Tower Press has done a publishing deal with British fantasy author, Juliet E. McKenna. Their first release will be a short story collection, A Few Further Tales of Einarinn, set in Ms. McKenna’s fantasy world. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Scifi-and-fantasy-books-for-2012-16569.php Here's a forward calendar for some of the best fantasy and science fiction releases coming out this year. Everything from the fantasy books of Stephen Hunt to the latest novels from Robert V S Redick and Stephen Deas. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/Third-two-book-deal-for-Puffin-fantasy-novelist-16570.php The John Jarrold Literary Agency writes in to tell us about Puffin’s acquisition of two further fantasy novels in the 11+ Wereworld series by British author and artist Curtis Jobling. Shannon Park, Editorial Director at Puffin secured world rights for the books from the John Jarrold Literary Agency, for an undisclosed five-figure sum. The novels are both due for publication in 2013. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/British-Science-Fiction-Association-Awards-2011-shortlist-announced-16571.php The British Science Fiction Association has reported the shortlists for the 2011 BSFA Awards. The 2011 awards will be held at Olympus 2012, The 2012 Eastercon, which takes place from 6th - 9th April 2012 at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow, London, and will be presented by author John Meaney. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2012/DC-spends-a-million-dollars-on-new-logo-16522.php 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. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2011/NASA-discovers-first-Earth-size-planets-beyond-our-Solar-System--16466.php 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. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2011/Steelhaven-16467.php 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. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2011/The-Amazing-Spider-Man-16464.php Here's the latest suite of photos from the next Spidey reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. Directed rather appropriately by Marc Webb http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2011/Doctor-Who-named-top-TV-show-in-US-charts-16454.php 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. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2011/Mrs-Dickens-family-Christmas-16455.php 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. http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/news/2011/Matt-Smith-interviewed-in-the-wardrobe-16456.php 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. 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.