I’m working a couple of new sections for The Genre Traveler: Book Reviews and Video Reviews. The former will include reviews of science fiction, fantasy and horror books that either have a strong sense of place or would make good vacation reads. It will include both traditional books and books on tape. The latter will […]
If you are a fan of the TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off Angel or the short-lived Firefly and its movie spin-off Serenity, and you’re going to be a San Diego’s Comic-Con later this month, then please do read on. Joss Whedon, creator of the aforementioned shows, has teamed up with Dark Horse […]
OK. This isn’t really genre travel, but I thought it would be of interested anyway. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game,” iPulp Fiction Library will publish this classic story exclusively online. First published in the August 1977 issue of Analog, Ender’s Game tells the story of a child prodigy […]
To promote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Fox put up a replica of the Surfer on the London Eye, according to Variety. Do any of my British readers have any photos they’d like to share? I’d love to post them for the rest of the readers to see, if you do. Send me […]
Last week, organizers of Comic-Con International revealed a partial list of films that they will preview during the convention next month. The list includes: Alien vs. Predator 2: No Peace on Earth Babylon AD Beowulf Coraline The Golden Compass Hellboy 2: The Golden Army I Am Legend Indiana Jones 4 Resident Evil: Extinction Stardust Star […]
Well, due to my back injury I finally watched all 14 movies that I got through the William Shatner DVD club (it’ll be missed). Anyway, I rarely watch most of my DVD collection more than once, so when I learned that I could rent my DVD collection through a new service called iLetYou.com, I had […]
Finalists for the 2007 John W. Campbell Memorial Award have been announced. This prestigious award is presented each year to the best science fiction novel of the year. This year’s nominees are: Titan by Ben Bova, A Small and Remarkable Life by Nick DiChario, Infoquake by David Louis Edelman, Nova Swing by M. John Harrison, […]
Since I hurt my back a few weeks back, I’ve been catching up on a lot of DVDs in my collection. I’ve watched all the 14 or 16 movies I got through the William Shatner DVD club, as well as worked my way through a few of the movies on my “50 Science Fiction Classics” […]
Have you seen Sanctuary yet? Starring Amanda Tapping (Stargate: SG-1) as Helen Magnus (right) and written by Damian Kindler, a veteran science fiction writer and producer, the trailer and first webisode are already available online at www.sanctuaryforall.com (at least that’s what the press release says — I looked on Thursday afternoon and only found the […]
Ray Bradbury is one of my top three favorite authors of all time. I’ve read most of his work — in fact, I chose him for my book report author in high school, reading all five novels he had written at that time. I’ve been fortunate to hear him speak several times and actually shake […]