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Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
I periodically post my most recently collected quotes (over the past 3 months). I just love collecting quotes, because there's a novel in every sentence--it's high-impact reading. I collect these from many sources, though more than a few of the following were presented to me by The Quotations Page , which I use as my homepage. Enjoy! "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making...
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Dave's Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Some of these reviews can also be found on Amazon . In August 2009 I read the following books: 1. People of the Wolf , by Michael and Kathleen Gear This book could have been so much better. It is apparently the beginning of a series of fictionalised accounts of the peopling of the Americas, this first volume covering the arrival of the first humans. There's even a kernel of a good story in here. Unfortunately,...
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The Comic Book Catacombs (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Rather than focus on the weird corporate merger of Disney and Marvel, I prefer to bask in the joy of the upcoming Dragoncon in Atlanta, GA this weekend (Sept. 4-7, 2009). The movie and television industry will field an impressive list of genre performers at the popular media show including William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Bruce Boxleitner, Patrick Stewart and cast...
Explore : Books,
Bruce Boxleitner,
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,
Cinema,
Eric Powell,
Farscape,
Fine Arts,
Gene Wolfe,
Leonard Nimoy,
Leonard Nimoy,
Patrick Stewart,
Sports,
TV,
William Shatner
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
You have to have a script to work with in order to do the novelization. An outline would be horribly inadequate. You also hope for supplementary materials.
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Ask Nicola (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Over at Author Central they're planning a special series starting today: Every day during August a different author will be spotlighted in their own thread in our Author Central forum. We encourage all to visit on that day and post photographs, reminiscences, cover scans, links to appropriate sites, reviews, and other reactions. With 31 days and 31 authors there's a chance to share what you know as...
Explore : Alfred Bester,
Dan Simmons,
Dave Williams,
Fine Arts,
Fritz Leiber,
Gene Wolfe,
Hal Clement,
Jack L. Chalker,
John Varley,
Norman Spinrad,
Sports,
William Tenn
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Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
... Rain by Tobias Buckell · Batmobile website · "New" Classic SF books · New SF Tale at Beat to a Pulp · Comics Review: Batman and Robin #1 · Book Review Club: Star Trek: Countdown · Two Sentence Tuesday: Fantasy Edition (2 June 2009. ...
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SF Safari (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
My latest contribution to the Forgotten Books Project started by Patti Abbott . For the complete list, head on over to her blog. Back in the late 1970s, Alan Dean Foster was my introduction to science fiction. He wrote the novelizations to the Star Trek Animated Series, expanding 22-minute cartoons into longer stories with more depth and characterizations (here's my review from earlier this year)....
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Scott D Parker (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Since my selection today is science fiction, I've posted my review of Alan Dean Foster's The Tar-Aiyam Krang (1972) over at SF Safari . Enjoy. And don't forget to check out Do Some Damage , the new group blog focusing on crime fiction of which I'm a part. It debuts tomorrow.
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Electronic Cerebrectomy (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
After enjoying the recent Star Trek remake/reboot/whatever in theaters, I decided to sit down and take in the first movie series again. It was nice to really just sit and watch them for the first time in a while (especially for Becca; she'd never actually seen Star Trek: The Motion Picture all the way through, so for her it was like getting a new Trek movie). Here are my overall reactions. Star Trek:...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Interviews and Profiles: @Wizards of the Coast: Marty Durham has a two-part video interview with fantasy author R.A. Salvatore . [via QuasarDragon ] @GeekDad: Alan Dean Foster . @Agony Column: Lou Anders , Editor of Fast Forward 2 . @The Nebula Awards website: Richard Bowes . Copper Robot podcast-interviews Robert Charles Wilson ( Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America ). (See also: Their...
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AMC Movie Blog (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
The patron saint of scifi novelizations, Alan Dean Foster, is writing a sequel to J.J. Abrams's Star Trek independent of the movie franchise.
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Vedasri (Free subscription) | 07/05/2009
Lunch With Alan Dean Foster, Part II: The Star Trek BookWired News“All he had left was his skeleton,” and then people in the audience said, “Oh, Bones!” But everybody has a different way of presenting these things. ...and more » http://vedasri.com/?q=skeleton+crew+movie
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GeekDad (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Image via Wikipedia Travel is an integral part of Alan Dean Foster’s life. He doesn’t just talk about it, he lives it. He has been all around the world and continues to travel regularly. He gets the most that he possibly can out of all of his trips. He tries to get to know the real [...]
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Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Legendary sci-fi Author Alan Dean Foster is going to follow up his best selling Star Trek movie adaptation with a sequel novel set in the new movie universe. Foster made the revelation for the book, tentatively titled "Star Trek: Refugees", on his website, and also spoke about it in a new interview — details below. [...]