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Kim Lakin-Smith’s debut novel, Tourniquet, is an intriguing read and becomes a decidedly different novel by the end. Ostensibly this is a novel of subcultures and layers of false belief but it becomes larger than its pieces of Goth and magic.
The break up of the deified supergroup, Origin, has the tribes of Renegade City [...]
Charles Stross has posted some chapters of Halting State on his site. Its not a huge amount given that Orbit’s version (UK edition) appears next year. More when I’ve finished the book…
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Entertainment Weekly are reporting that there may be a small détènte between New Line and Peter Jackson about the filming of the Hobbit, though not no actual progress. Jackson still has to deal with the live action TinTin and another project. I’m not 100% sure but I believe there are other territorial/rights issues as well [...]
Part one of Radio Four’s version of Dirk Gently is online now for downloading. Part two on the 10th.
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Slashfilm has a post regarding Heath Ledger’s take on The Joker in the forthcoming Dark Night Returns (teaser site, teaser treailer). According to Michael Caine he’s less Nicholson scary uncle and more murderous psychopath. Having had doubts about the revival of the franchise, Nolan seems to be doing a sterling job and putting his own [...]
OMG, Gizmodo have got a picture story of a 21 foot long X-Wing that actually flies with rocket power. The launch is scheduled for next week and it even has an R2D2 unit in the back and the X wings take around 35 seconds to deploy into position. Lets hope the flight lasts that long [...]
On a slightly odd note, George Takei now has an asteroid named after him, formerly known as 1994 GT4. He joins Nichelle Nicholls, Gene Rodenberry, Asimov and Heinlein for astronomical bodies in space.
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