If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Boom! Studios has produces what it calls a “graphic translation” of Phillip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The series will consist of about 24 issues, with the first issue released in July. The issues will [...]
The winners of the 2009 Hugo awards were announced on 9 August 2009, at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Hugo for Best Novel went to The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK), by Neil Gaiman, while “The Erdmann Nexus” (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008), by Nancy Kress was awarded Best Novella [...]
Del Rey Manga announced at San Diego Comic-Con that it will publish an adaptation of The Last Airbender, a forthcoming film by M. Night Shyamalan. The adaptation will be written by Dave Roman and drawn by Joon Choi. Additionally, Del Rey Manga said that it will produce a prequel to The Last Airbender, to be [...]
Del Rey Books has said it will publish a graphic novel version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Books, 2009) The news was announced at San Diego Comic-Con International. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel will be adapted by writer Tony Lee and artist Cliff Richards from the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. [...]
The Stand: Captain Trips, a hardcover graphic novel adaptation of The Stand (1978, 1990), a novel by Stephen King, will be available in general bookstores in January 2010, Publishers Weekly has reported. The graphic novel was first available only in comics shops in March after Marvel Comics said it did not have permission from Doubleday [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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