Free science fiction ebook
March 11, 2010 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It is not that often that something is offered for nothing, but it seems that a science fiction author has decided that in order to get his work in front of the largest audience possible giving it away could [...]
Hawks book series taken on by Fox
February 24, 2010 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
If there is one way to create a series of science fiction stories and make them very believable. It would be to live the life and for author John Twelve Hawks, living the life of someone who is rarely seen and who can only be contacted via an untraceable satellite phone tells us the type [...]
Avatar in print
February 17, 2010 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
The 3D experience of Avatar has left some people with a void in their lives and the problem is that there is nothing around at the moment to fill that void; it is a classic sales takeaway. This happens when the consumer desires something more if it is taken away from them.
But for Avatar fans [...]
Sci-fi writers declare war in Amazon
February 8, 2010 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
The thing about e-books is that there is no paper, printing or anything else that would be associated with an actual book, so according to the online bookseller Amazon this should be reflected in the price.
But the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has cut links with Amazon following a dispute but the retailer [...]
Twilight takes credit for book sales
February 2, 2010 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
There may be some people that complain about the amount of vampire films and TV series around at the moment, but one sector of the media industry is reaping the rewards from this renewed interest in science fiction and fantasy.
According to research carried out by Mintel, around a third of teenagers are reading science fiction [...]
Firefly team back for more
January 26, 2010 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
It has been some time since the demise of Firefly and the attempt by the producers to give the fans some sort of ending to think about with the release of the feature length Serenity.
For fans of the TV show this is not good news, as the story lives on in a series of stories [...]
Asimov estate allows new works
November 4, 2009 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
It seems that we are in a time of reworking, we have seen this in film, TV and even books, now it seems following extended negotiations the estate of the late Isaac Asimov have agreed to allow the character of Dr Susan Calvin to be reborn.
The estate have authorised sequels of the iRobot books, made [...]
Stephen King’s book hidden around the internet
October 21, 2009 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
Stephen King’s latest work Under the Dome is due to be released next month, but fans that find they cannot hold on that long will be able to search out snippets of the novel and piece them together into coherent blocks.
To start off with, fans will need to visit the Stephen King website where they [...]
Chance to win two books by Andy Briggs
October 8, 2009 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
Fans of science fiction could be in with a treat with this competition run the publisher Image Publishing.
The competition has been created to celebrate the launch of Hero.com: Crisis Point and Villain.net: Power Surge, a website that runs in conjunction with the works of Andy Briggs offers the reader to choose which side they prefer.
This [...]
Amazon settles Orwell lawsuit
October 7, 2009 by David Allen
Filed under Books, News
It was back in July when we reported on the strange event that affected some Kindle owners. What happened was that users of this device, who had purchased material by George Orwell, turned the device on only to find that it has been deleted.
This was no accident or malfunction, Amazon had actually used the system [...]

