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When Are Vampire Stories Science Fiction? [Vampires]
io9 — ... experiment with genetic manipulation, introducing African human genes to increase their resistance to sunlight. And in True Blood, humanity learns of the existence of vampires only when perfected synthetic blood frees vamps from their dependence on warm bodies. ...

TruBlood and the All-American Vampire
Biology in Science Fiction — ... Imagine that you are a vampire, dependent on human blood for nourishment. What would happen if an artificial replacement were available? That's the premise of HBO's new series True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris' ...

Audible's Frontiers's September offerings start with a nod to True Blood, debuting this weekend
SFScope — [image] Presaging this weekend's debut of the HBO series True Blood , Frontiers has Charlaine Harris as its Guest Editor this month. Harris, the author of the Sookie Stackhouse "Southern Vampire" novels, contributes a brief essay on "A Few of My Favorite Things." The science fiction and fantasy imprint of the audio book publisher Audible.com offers a monthly Guest Editor, as well as Orson Scott Card's monthly selections, and regular new audio titles. Non-subscribers can also get a free download from Audible at www.audible.com/scifi. Harris's ...

Jenny’s TV Guide: Sunday September 7
the TV addict — ... The next premiere is True Blood on HBO at 9/8c. Thanks to a Japanese scientist’s invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures “coming out of the coffin.” Religious leaders and government officials around the world have chosen their sides, but in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out. Local waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), however, ...

True Blood
Auxiliary Memory — ... You’d think the public would have put a stake through the heart of vampire stories long ago but as long as creative new repackaging like the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer and HBO’s new series True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries come along, the undead will continue to haunt us.  I have to admit that I have a life-long prejudice against vampire stories.  Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula was a cliché when I was a kid, and the concept seemed tired even back in the 1950s.  I was arm-twisted into give the ...

Vampire Stalking, Vampire Waitress, Fire on the Fringe
Rob's Blog o' Stuff — ... Speaking of vampires, I caught True Blood on Sunday night and thought it was a very good first episode in terms of establishing characters, tone, and the world of ...

Mini-TV Wrap-up and New Poll
Rob's Blog o' Stuff — ... Fringe is pushing me away and True Blood continues to suck me into the show. The acting is not that believable on Fringe and Joshua Jackson’s character is downright annoying. I’ll give Fringe another week or two before jumping ship totally. I’m still enjoying Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and it seems British hottie Sonya Walger is going between this and Lost, but Heroes may dent my watching of Sarah. Which major US genre imprint’s ...

BSG Actress Joins True Blood
Battlestar Galactica Fan Community — Michelle Forbes, who played Admiral Cain in BSG season 2 and "Razor," is joining HBO's vampire show True Blood as a series regular. [LINK]

Charlaine Harris News: sales, premieres, and television fame and fortune
SFScope — ... a pile of Charlaine Harris news. She will write a fourth "Harper Connelly" paranormal mystery for Ginjer Buchanan for the Berkley Prime Crime imprint for "a solid six figure advance." Harris will also co-edit two more anthologies with Toni L.P. Kelner (the first with a "death takes a vacation" theme) for Buchanan for the Berkley/Ace imprint. The deals were negotiated by Bilmes. Harris attended the gala Hollywood premiere of HBO series True Blood , based on her "Sookie Stackhouse" novels, on 4 September, and is featured ...

Weber Review, TV Recap & Yankee Stadium
Rob's Blog o' Stuff — ... did something right. As a result of the last game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday*, I didn’t catch up with True Blood until last night, but I’m still really intrigued by the story and Harris’s version of the Vampire. Although I thought the most recent episode was the series’s weakest, it was still good. Paquin is really settling into the Sookie role very well. ...

Lord Tophet & TV Wrap
Rob's Blog o' Stuff — ... was just sort of there for me this week. Again Sylar is the most interesting thing on the show, the Petrellis are still somewhat annoying, Hiro is just sort of floating around (though I like his “nemesis”) and Claire’s two mommies could be interesting. The show hasn’t annoyed me enough to completely abandon it. On the other hand, True Blood was solid once again. Now that ...

Halfway Through Hiatus
GALACTICA SITREP — ... My favorite new show this season, Alan Ball’s TRUE BLOOD, is adding BSG vet Michelle Forbes as a series regular for season 2. Charlaine Harris herself dropped the news on ...

The SFFaudio Podcast #009
SFFaudio — ... adults! We don’t set the bar high enough. If you were a super hero who would you be? Me? I’d be like Batman, but with less hypocrisy. Topics discussed include: Escape Pod, John Joseph Adams, Seeds Of Change, The Living Dead, Brilliance Audio, epic Fantasy, Wizards First Rule, Terry Goodkind, Legend Of The Seeker, HBO, Tru Blood, Charlaine Harris, Foundation, Mercedes Lackey, ...

For the Michelle Forbes fans
Battlestar Galactica Fan Community — True Blood season 2 is starting this weekend, and as many of you know, Michelle Forbes (our lovely and bad-ass Admiral Cain from BSG) is part of the cast now. I dug up a few promos and photos featuring her character -- Enjoy. ...

Interview with a vampire -- Stephen Moyer of True Blood
TV Squad-True Blood — Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Interviews, Reality-Free Vampires, shapeshifters, and a barmaid who can read peoples' minds ... HBO's True Blood returns on June 14, 9 PM. I've been impatiently waiting for the white-hot series to come back since the toenail-painted black foot slumped out of Andy's car door at the end of season one. Is it Lafayette's foot? I asked Stephen Moyer, who plays vampire Bill Compton, but of course, he wouldn't tell me. No matter. I'll be glued to my TV next Sunday night. Read on and ...

True Blood: Nothing But the Blood
TV Squad-True Blood — ... Have I mentioned how excited I am to have True Blood back? Yeah, I think so. At least 43 times around the Web. And tonight's season two premiere did not disappoint. It was ...

Top Ten Differences Between True Blood And Twilight
Fantasy Magazine — ... which has appeared in the form of book and then movie, and True Blood , the HBO series inspired by Charlaine Harris’ excellent Sookie Stackhouse books, differ? I decided to take a look and list the most important. 1. Sparkliness: Okay, let’s get this one right out of the way. In True Blood , the vampires do not sparkle. In Twilight they do, and I personally find that absolutely ridiculous. To me, the idea of sparkling menace does not work. This is also why, it turns out in Meyer’s universe, vampires avoid sunlight. Because they sparkle unnaturally in it. Serious, this ...