Genre Sequels and Prequels Coming This Year

While tooling around IMBD, I noticed a list of forthcoming sequels and prequels. What was interesting about the list was how it was dominated by genre titles. Here’s a short summary of those coming out this year.
Currently in theaters:

The fourth entry in the Scream franchise, which was first released in December of 1996, is now [...]

Travel Reads: Guardian of the Dead

Karen Healey’s debut novel Guardian of the Dead works as a Travel Read on two levels: Not only is it an entertaining read, but it also transports you to two worlds … a campus town in New Zealand and the fairy world of Maori.
When I first started to read Guardian of the Dead, I experienced [...]

Did You Know that May Is Half-Way to Halloween?

That is why May is when the National Halloween Convention is held. Halloween in all its varied forms and sub genre’s is second only to Christmas in the American imagination, and pocketbook. The convention brings together professional haunters, Amateur home haunters, Halloween decorators, antique collectors, Horror film fans, and history buffs all under the one [...]

The Addams Family Goes to Broadway

Starring Nathan Lane (Titan A.E., Austin Powers in Goldmember, Astro Boy) as Gomez, and Bebe Neuwirth (The Faculty, Jumanji and a really fun episode of ST:TNG, “First Contact”) as Morticia, The Addams Family: A New Musical is set to hit Broadway in March, and will have it’s World Premiere in Chicago on Friday. For more [...]

Carl Sagan Gets His Day

It now feels like billions and billions of years ago, but when I was 15 I received one of the best birthday presents. But the story doesn’t start there.
You see, back then I was an avid Cosmos fan … pleading with my Dad to let me stay up to watch an entire episode of Cosmos. [...]

Alas, ST: The Experience Still Not Open at Neonopolis

Back on March 2, I told you that Star Trek: The Experience was going to re-open in downtown Las Vegas in Neonopolis. It was suppose to open in May in conjunction with the reboot movie by J.J. Abrams. So, when I went to Las Vegas last week, I was all excited about seeing the show’s [...]

Actor Ron Silver Dies at Age 62 of Cancer

“Ron Silver died peacefully in his sleep with his family around him early Sunday morning” in New York City, Robin Bronk, executive director of the Creative Coalition, which Silver helped found, told the Associated Press. “He had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years.”
I noticed the news because I’ve always kinda had a crush on [...]

‘Star Trek: The Experience’ Stays In Vegas

According to a story on Airlock Alpha, which I write for, CBS/Paramount says it has signed a contract to return Star Trek: The Experience to Las Vegas, this time at the Neonopolis Center. The attraction closed last year when Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. didn’t renew its contract with the Las Vegas Hilton. It is expected [...]

Sales of SF & F Books Up in 2008

According to a recent story for the Chicago Sun-Times, While Borders Books and Music reported book sales in most categories were flat or down in 2008, sales of science fiction and fantasy books, as well as romance and American history, were up.
Just F.Y.I.
Top 10 Best Selling Science Fiction Books at Ebooks.com

1. The Accidental Time Machine [...]

Well-Traveled SF Author Dies at the Age of 61

Scottish author, Richard Gordon died Feb. 7 of a heart attack after collapsing at the Lianhua Road Subway Station in Shanghai, China. And, although I’m not familiar with his work, doing a bit of research to write this story, I came up with some very interesting things.
According to SFScope.com, Gordon mostly wrote under the pseudonyms [...]


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