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Gerry Anderson's excellent 1970 TV series UFO is heading for the big screen. The movie option for the series was bought some years ago and the project has languished in development hell ever since, but according to Variety the project is now being fast-tracked with production expected to begin ...
Books
Kevin J. Anderson
The superb 1998 mini-series Ultraviolet is now available on YouTube via Channel 4 On-Demand. I haven't seen if it works for people outside the UK yet, but certainly those in the UK looking for an excellent SFF show, this is definitely one to catch. The series stars Jack Davenport (Commander ...
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True Blood
Peter F. Hamilton has completed the writing of The Evolutionary Void , the third and final volume in The Void Trilogy . Publication date is currently tentatively scheduled for September 2010, although there are hopes that was just a placeholder date and this early finishing of the novel (a month ...
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Peter F. Hamilton
The original Dark Sun logo, used from 1991-1995. The History of Dark Sun In 1990, with the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms settings doing good business for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game and the newly-released 2nd Edition of the game doing well, TSR decided to create a new ...
Books
As mentioned in the previous review, Red Dwarf abruptly went off the air following transmission of its sixth season at the end of 1993. A criminal case involving actor Craig Charles and the breakdown of the working relationship between writer-producers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor proved ...
TV
Red Dwarf
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Filming of HBO's Game of Thrones concluded on
Thursday with a big wrap party. Not that the
hard work is over, with weeks of work still ahead involving editing, post-production and the addition of special effects and music, and that's before HBO ...
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That's a wrap!
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Thirty-eight thousand years in the future, the Galaxy is gripped in a constant state of warfare. The million worlds of the Imperium of Man are under constant attack from hostile alien races. Whilst the billions-strong army of the Imperial Guard holds the lines, it is up to the thousand chapters ...
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Returning for its sixth season in 1993, Red Dwarf underwent the largest shake-up to its basic premise since its beginning. Writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor decided that the crew had things a little too easy living on a five-mile-long spaceship with absolutely tons of supplies, so devised a ...
TV
Red Dwarf
Brea Grant
Fans of Jim Butcher's Roman-influenced Codex Alera fantasy series have been asking for a map of the setting for some time. Now one exists! Go here for much more high-res versions.
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Jim Butcher
The io9 website has an interesting article here where New York Times bestseller Lynn Viehl (who writes paranormal romance fiction) discloses her royalties for the previous year and reveals that she barely scratched by above the poverty line. A few hundred sales less and she'd have qualified ...
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
Julia Stretton is a researcher for the Ridpath projection, a machine that has generated a completely convincing simulation of what the world may look like in the early 22nd Century. In the projection, the south-west of England has broken away from the rest of the island of Britain due to an ...
Books
Cherie Priest
For its fifth season, Red Dwarf underwent a change of focus. Whilst the set-up and premise is still the same as the previous two seasons, the writers chose to take the show more in the direction of being a drama-comedy rather than a straight-up sitcom. The fifth season still has plenty of ...
TV
Red Dwarf
Brea Grant
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Original Forgotten Realms logo, 1987-2001. The History of
the Forgotten Realms In 1967, the then-eight-year-old Ed Greenwood
started writing stories for his own amusement about dragons and elves. Over the next few years the stories gained a coherent setting, a world Greenwood called the ...
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The Worlds of D&D: Forgotten Realms
The fourth season of Red Dwarf is interesting in that it is the only one without any major format changes. Some of the behind-the-scenes changes were quite big, most notably the moving of production from Manchester to the far superior Shepperton Studios near London, but otherwise the status quo ...
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Red Dwarf
Brea Grant
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France, 1633. Cardinal Richelieu is the most powerful
and feared man in France, overseeing the affairs of
the kingdom from Paris. His current priority is to prevent war from breaking out between France and Spain whilst France is militarily distracted ...
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The Cardinal's Blades by Pierre Pevel
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Three million years into deep space, the mining ship Red Dwarf continues on its lonely voyage home. With the clearing of the ship's radioactive decks continuing apace, Lister and Rimmer have moved into much nicer officers' quarters and are also now able to use the far superior Starbug -class ...
TV
Red Dwarf
Brea Grant
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The History of Dragonlance In January 1984 a
rather minimalist advert appeared in the pages of Dragon
Magazine , the monthly Dungeons and Dragons periodical published by TSR. This advert informed the reader that something called ' Dragonlance ' ...
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The Worlds of D&D: Dragonlance
Picking up where the first season left off, the mining ship Red Dwarf is lost in space, three million years from Earth, the crew killed in a radiation leak. The only survivor of the crew is Dave Lister, who was in suspended animation during the incident. He fellow crewmembers are a creature that ...
TV
Red Dwarf
Imp y Celyn, trained as a musician in a druid society, arrives in Ankh-Morpork ready to seek his fortune. Instead, the city rapidly deprives him of the few riches he already has. Teaming up with the dwarf horn-blower Glod and the troll drummer Lias, Imp braves the wrath of the Musicians' Guild ...
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Terry Goodkind
The mining ship Red Dwarf , five miles long and three miles wide, is making its way through the outer Solar system on a mission to process and refine ore. It's not a particularly compelling job, but Third Technician Dave Lister entertains himself by slobbing out, partying with his friends in the ...
