blogs.amctv.com - 11/29/2008
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Along with George "I never met a past work I couldn't retread" Lucas, Spielberg is the king of sequels. Most of his major blockbusters have been sequel-ized in some form, but a select few of his scifi movies ceased after part one, even when they were begging for a follow-up. But more isn't ...
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... Phantastes: A Faerie Romance by George MacDonald (1858). Audio Fiction: Zombie Astronaut has four different versions of Hitchcock's The Birds. @Escape Pod: "Mission to Dover" by Gideon Fostick, read by Lyle Merithew. @Broken Sea Audio: Queen of the Black Coast by Robert E. Howard, performed by a full cast. [via SFFaudio]
SciFi Scanner looks at Spielberg SciFi Sequels That Never Were (And One That Never Should Have Been).
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