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How About Some More Arthur C. Clarke Movies?

BOOKS Friday, May 28 by Captain


The Top 5 Unfilmed Arthur C. Clarke Stories

When people who are new to Sci Fi discuss the authors they may have heard of, the name Arthur C. Clarke almost invariably pops up.

Somehow, in this world of HD TV, sophisticated computer games and 3-D film, the authors made famous by the cheap Sci Fi paperbacks of the 40's and 50's and 60's still hold our imagination and our respect.

With his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick for 1969's seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clark touched a new generation first hand, and cemented a place forever in the filmic cosmos.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Trailer

BOOKS Wednesday, March 3 by Captain


You may recall a little while ago the furore that arose on the release of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If you haven't read Seth Grahame-Smith's update on Jane Austen's classic, and you don't mind the odd brain-eater, then you're missing out.

We did alert you previously to the announcement on his next book - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and it seems that in the ensuing months, Graheme-Smith has been busy. The new tome is being prepared for publication as we speak, and his publishers, the Hachette Book Group are excited.
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Ender's Game Coming to the Movies… Hopefully

BOOKS Monday, February 15 by Captain


One of the all-time faves of Sci Fi literature, Ender's Game, is set to become a feature film in the near future.

Work is currently being done on a script, which in fact has been worked on for quite a while by none other than the author of the original novel, Orson Scott Card.

The story of Ender Wiggin and his days in the futuristic Battle School first appeared in 1977, in magazine Analog. Later expanded, it eventually went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards.

If you haven't read it yet, do. It's the beginning of a great sequence of books, and Orson Scott Card is a Sci Fi writer that lovers of the harder form of Sci Fi can really sink their teeth into.
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Aurealis Awards: The Best in Australian Sci Fi Books for 2009

BOOKS Sunday, January 24 by Captain


The Aurealis Awards, established in 1995 by Chimaera Publications, the publishers of Aurealis magazine, to recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror writers, have been announced for 2009.

The Aurealis Awards were created to complement the Annual Australian National Science Fiction Convention’s Ditmar Awards and the Australian Children’s Book Council Awards.

Here are the full list of the winners of the 2009 Aurealis Awards, check them out if you can, some great authors amongst them!:
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Ursula K. Le Guin Quits The Authors Guild

BOOKS Wednesday, January 6 by Captain


If you haven't head about this yet, you have now.

Here's the letter that the esteemed author posted on her website, www.ursulakleguin.com in response to the deal with Google that the Authors Guild struck in response to Google's practice of scanning pages from books. The saga began in 2005, when Google began scanning books from libraries, some still under copyright protection. Naturally, there was some kickback, and a class action law suit ensued, seeking to gain compensation and a future deal.
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The Michael Adams Mission: Worst Movie Ever, One At A Time, Every Day, For A Year!

BOOKS Wednesday, December 23 by Captain


It seems like the kind of thing that you'd agree to on a drunken film-fuelled New Year's Eve. The kind of thing that sounds great, but you'd never actually attempt.

No one has the kind of stamina it takes to actively seek out the worst movie ever made, and then watch the very worst candidates one day at a time for an entire year. Surely?

It's something that Michael Adams did. The Australian-based film critic, reviews editor at Empire Magazine, one time host of the SBS Movie Show and now King of All That Is Craptacular has written a book that outlines this stunning achievement in pop-culture self flagellation. For fans of bad movies, 'Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic's Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made' is now the holy grail of just what to look out for when searching for the ultimate, eyeball-gouging adventure.
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Star Wars - The Original Synopsis

BOOKS Friday, November 27 by Captain


Everybody knows Star Wars back to front, but there are people who know it even more intimately.

The people who endeavour to scour the internet to find the bibs and bobs from the development process, from the original yellow pad outlines, to the several drafts. If you're keen on learning the craft of script writing, and finding out just how much a film can change from its original conception, tracking Star Wars and the many variants of the original 1977 film is a great education. Sites like Drew's Script-o-rama are a great place to start.
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Stargate Universe - First Novel

BOOKS Friday, November 13 by Captain


If you like to head over to Amazon from time to time (now, more than ever, with our chunky Aussie dollar), you'll be pleased to know that the first novel from the Stargate Universe er, universe is now available.

What will it be, you ask?

Why the noveilsation of the first three episodes - 'Air'. For those of you who have somehow missed these crucial opening bars in the symphony of Stargate Universe, it's another way to catch up. It's also a great way to get another perspective on an intricate and delicate plot.
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UFO Pamphlets!

BOOKS Tuesday, November 3 by Captain


The Mu-Meson archives are one of the best places for you to go if you're interested in the shady fringes of entertainment culture, where the worlds of insanity and hilarity combine, and the machinery of Hollywood holds no sway.

Although we do warn you. Once you enter this world, you can never come back. The kind of movie that you like may very well change. Once you discover, for example, the joy of midget Filippino James Bond movies, you could quite rightly scoff at anything Daniel Craig may be up to.
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Get Iain M Banks Latest Novel - for free!

BOOKS Friday, September 25 by Captain

If you know about Scottish literary wizz Iain M Banks, or have read our introduction and acted on it, then the news that not only is his latest novel, Transition, now available for sale in Australia, but available as a free podcast on iTunes will come as a breath of delightfully twisted air.

The new novel stands astride his two personae - when publishing with the M in his name (for Menzies) he puts out straight (and brilliant) Sci Fi. Without it, he produces fairly twisted 'straight' fiction, although these novels often include Sci Fi elements.
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