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Monday, April 19, 2010 |
Here! |
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Geek Speak Magazine,
Issue 2! |
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Diana Rivers’s fantasy
novel City of
Strangers |
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Werewolf-laden anthology
Running with the Wolf, featuring stories by
Laura Gilman, Carrie Moore and “many more” |
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Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Alan Moore’s
Tom Strong:
Deluxe Edition Vol. 2, in hardcover |
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Amazon.com and DVD sellers |
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Peter Jackson’s
controversial adaptation of Alice Sebold’s
best-seller
The Lovely Bones on DVD and
Blu-ray |
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Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island
on DVD. Enough said. |
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Spanish-language
coolness
Vampire of Quezon City on DVD |
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Batman and Robin
on, uh, Blu-ray. Really?
Why? |
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Minority Report
on Blu-ray! |
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Xena: Warrior Princess
Season 1,
re-released on DVD |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,
Season 1, re-released on DVD |
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Transformers,
Seasons 3 and 4, (25th
Anniversary Edition) on DVD |
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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The release of Dark
Horse’s
Aliens: More than Human in trade paperback |
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The collected graphic
version of Orson Scott Card’s
Ender’s
Shadow: Command School, issues 1-6 |
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Marvel Masterworks: Invincible Iron Man Vol. 1
in trade paperback |
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The classic
Thor: Tales of
Asgard by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, collected in
hardcover |
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Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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The release of four new
Dr. Who
books: Apollo 23, The Forgotten Army, Night of the Humans, The TARDIS
Handbook |
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Amazon.com and DVD sellers |
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Avatar on DVD and Blu-ray! Buy it. You know you
want to. |
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In US Theaters, Limited Release |
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Best Worst Movie, a documentary on the
truly awful
Troll 2, and an exploration of exactly what
makes a cult classic |
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Thursday, April 23, 2010 |
Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Meet Cade Skywalker in
Star Wars:
Tatooine v. 8: Legacy, out in trade paperback |
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Zagreb, Croatia |
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SFeraKON |
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Sunday, April 25, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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The very scholarly tome
The Functions
of Role-Playing Games: How Participants Create
Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity
by Sarah Lynne Bowman |
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Monday, April 26, 2010 |
Amazon.com and DVD sellers |
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In the lead up to
Shrek 4,
all three previous over-rated
Shrek
movies in one convenient package, on DVD
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Victorious, the much-anticipated
sixth and final book of The Lost Fleet series, by
Jack Campbell |
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Under Heaven, the new novel from
historical fantasist Guy Gavriel Kay, inspired by
Ancient China |
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Lover Mine, Book 8 in J. R. Ward’s
erotic vampire romance Black Dagger Brotherhood
series (and surely she’ll run out of “Lover” titles
at some point?) |
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Wild Fire,
Book 4 in Christine
Feehan’s shapeshifty Leopard series. |
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Blood Born,
by Lindas Howard and
Jones, a vampire romance featuring a guy with
12-pack abs, apparently. |
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Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Outcast
by Aaron Alston sees Luke Skywalker put on trial! |
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David Weber’s Honorverse
novel Storm
from the Shadows is released in paperback |
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Predominently YA author
Michael Cormier offers up the creepily-covered
horror Sumner Island |
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Release of Neil Gaiman’s
Instructions,
illustrated by Charles Vess, in hardcover |
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Amazon.com and DVD sellers |
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UK horror thriller
Dark Nature,
on DVD and Blu-ray |
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David Lynch’s
Dune on
Blu-ray! |
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Armageddon
on Blu-ray! |
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Tales from the Darkside
Season 3 on DVD |
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2008’s
Battle Planet,
one of the better Sci-Fi Channel-that-was
original movies (not that that’s saying much) on DVD |
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The simply brilliant
Imaginarium of
Dr. Parnassus on DVD and Blu-ray |
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70’s cult classic UK
series
Survivors, on DVD
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Syfy’s deliciously awful
Mega Piranha,
starring 80’s popster Tiffany and Greg Brady, on DVD
mere weeks after its TV premiere |
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1984’s excellent
Anna to the
Infinite Power, on DVD for the first time (!) |
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Book 2 in Lori Devoti’s
modern-day Amazons series,
Amazon Queen
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Bewitched and Betrayed, the fourth book
in Lisa Shearin’s witchy Raine Benares series |
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A Breath of Magic, the third of Tracy
Madison’s “of Magic” romances |
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Counterstrike: The Last World War,
the sequel to Dayton Ward’s thrilling
The Last World
War |
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Adrian Tchaikovsky’s
buggy world returns in
Dragonfly
Falling (Shadows of the Apt, Book 2) |
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Lyn Benedict follows up
2009’s Sins
and Shadows with the second book in her Shadow
Inquiries series,
Ghosts and Echoes |
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Baen publishes Ryk E.
Spoor’s Grand
Central Arena |
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ABC, 8:00 PM |
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The series premiere of
Happy Town,
from the creators of
October Road
and starring Amy Acker, Sam Neill, Steven Weber
and a host of recognizable Canadians. |
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In US Theaters |
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Dutch film maker Tom
Six’s hybrid horror
The Human
Centipede |
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Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Warren Ellis’s
tremendous 2005 relaunch
The Invincible
Iron Man: Extremis, collecting issues 1-6, in
hardcover. |
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Spider-Man:
The Complete Clone Saga Epic, Book 1 (“Saga Epic” is right!), a
decades-spanning collection, released in trade
paperback |
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Absolute Green Lantern: Rebirth,
Geoff Johns’s successful re-introduction of Hal
Jordan, in hardcover (and with Special Features!) |
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The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia,
by WW alum Phil Jiminez and comic historian John
Wells |
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Damage Time,
a hard sci-fi thriller
from Colin Harvey |
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The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010, edited by Rich Horton. Now, that seems a little premature (not to
mention self-aggrandizing), doesn’t it? |
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Robin McKinley’s
not-to-be-missed vampire/magic narrative
Sunshine,
released in paperback |
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Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Vol. 3 of Image Comics’
Elephantmen,
Dangerous Liaisons |
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John Ostrander and
Timothy Truman’s
GrimJack: The
Manx Cat, collecting all six-issues, in trade
paperback |
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Image Comics’ awesome
Rocketbots
(in hardcover!) |
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Comic
Transformers:
The Movie Collection released in trade
paperback, featuring the two movie prequels and the
adaptation of
Revenge of the Fallen. Um… really? |
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Comic
Transformers:
Tales of the Fallen released in trade paperback.
Seriously, now…
really? |
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Friday, April 30, 2010 |
Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Thor, J. Michael Straczynski’s re-working of the
Marvel hero (collecting issues #1 – 12) |
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Mathemagic and Mystiphysics Vol. 1: The Probabilities of Pandemonium, collecting the first 3 issues of
The Wandering
Stars |
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Amazon.com and good boksellers |
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R.A Salvatore’s 1996
fantasy novel
Luthien’s Gamble (the sequel to
The Sword of
Bedwyr) is released as an audiobook.
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The Union looks dicey in
A Rainbow of
Blood, sequel to Peter G. Tsouras’s Alternate
History Civil War retelling,
Brittania’s
Fist |
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The Sword, a God-filled
post-apocalyptic tale (so, it’s
Supernatural?),
by theologian Bryan M. Litfin |
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In US Theaters |
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The re-imagining of
A Nightmare on
Elm Street. Hmm. Can you say redundant? |
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Furry Vengeance, a Brendan
Fraser-starring environmental message-y kid flick,
which also stars Brooke Shields, Dick Van Dyke, and
The Daily
Show’s Samantha Bee! |
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Bonn, Germany |
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FedCon |
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Troy, Michigan |
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Penguicon |
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Sunday, May 1, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Children of Ta’Shaen, Book 3 of the
Earthsoul Prophecies by Greg Park |
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Chosen Ones, the first book of the
Aedyn Chronicles, a new series for younger readers
by Alister McGrath
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Dragon Haven, Volume Two of the Rain
Wilds Chronicles by fantasy master Robin Hobb |
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris’s
latest in the Southern Vampires/Sookie
Stackhouse/True Blood series |
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Ark by Stephen Baxter, sequel to
Flood |
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The release of yet
another in the recent fad for shoehorning
mythological fiends into the classics,
Little Women
and Werewolves by Louisa May Alcott and Porter
Grand |
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The second of Annette
McCleave’s Soul Gatherer novels,
Bound by
Darkness |
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Deceiver, Book 11 in C. J.
Cherryh’s fantastical Foreigner series |
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The Demon in Me, the first in a new
series called Living in Eden by Michelle Rowen |
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A Legacy of Daemons,
Book 3 in Camille
Bacon-Smith’s paranormal private eye Daemon’s Inc.
series |
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Love in the Time of Dragons,
the first in Katie McAlister’s new paranormal series
The Light Dragons |
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Magic in the Storm,
the third book in Devon
Monk’s witch-cop Allie Beckstrom series |
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Tall, Dark and Wolfish, which is just
what you’d imagine it would be, by Lydia Dare |
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Well of Sorrows,
Benjamin Tate’s new
fantasy novel |
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The first novel in a new
YA series,
Alex Van Helsing: Vampires Rising by Jason
Henderson |
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Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Farscape: D’Argo’s Trial, a new hardcover
origin story by
Farscape
creator Rockne S. O’Bannon |
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Amazon.com and DVD sellers |
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The deeply trippy
First
Spaceship on Venus on DVD, as part of the Cinema
Insomnia Slime Line releases |
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Peter Berg’s
Solaris/Sunshine hybrid
Virtuality,
on DVD |
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Wolverine and X-Men: Revelation
on DVD |
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Because
The Moment
After really needed a sequel,
The Moment
After 2: The Awakening comes out on DVD |
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Rozen Maiden
the complete box set, on
DVD |
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Fallen, the hot high-school angel mini-series
based on the best-selling books by Thomas E.
Sniegoski, on DVD |
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Oh, dear. Dwayne Johnson
and Ashley Judd in
Tooth Fairy,
on DVD. |
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
In US Theaters |
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Iron Man 2! |
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Limited Release |
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OSS 117: Lost in Rio, a follow-up to spy
spoof OSS 117:
Cairo, Nest of Spies |
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Limited Release |
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Trash Humpers, an old-people-gone-bad
horror movie, from Harmony Korine |
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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The Bone Conjurer,
the seven millionth book
in the bi-monthly Lara Croft-esque Rogue Angel
series by “Alex Archer” |
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Release of
Citizens,
an anthology of “Military Science Fiction by
Military Veterans,” edited by John Ringo and Brian
S. Thompsen and featuring stories from Arthur C.
Clarke, Elizabeth Moon, Keith Laumer, David Drake
and many more. |
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Jane Lindskold’s
rat-empowered Brenda Morris is back for a third
tale, Five Odd Honors |
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Book 2 of James G
Anderson and Marc Sebanc’s Legacy of the Stone Harp,
The Darkling Fields of Arvon. Yes, it’s High Fantasy. How did you
guess? |
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David Drake returns to
fantasy with
The Legions of Fire, the first in a quartet set
in an alternate, magic-imbued Rome-ish world. |
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The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories,
an anthology of 25 classic and newly-commissioned
short stories where the Allies were defeated, etc. |
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Moonshine, Alaya Johnson’s
vampires and fairies in Prohibition-era New York
tale, starring the wonderfully-named Zephyr Hollis |
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Mercedes Lackey, Eric
Flint and Dave Freer collaborate on the Dark Fantasy
Much Fall of Blood, released in hardcover from Baen |
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Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Iron Man: Deadly Solutions,
collecting 1998 issues 1-7,
in hardcover |
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Amazon.com and DVD sellers |
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Essential Arthouse: Kurosawa Collection
(Hidden
Fortress, Ikuru and
Fortress of
Blood) on DVD |
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Malice in Wonderland, a modernized, dark and
quite entertaining take on the original, on DVD |
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Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes,
another in the dreary adventures of the young
magician who is not
at all
like Harry Potter |
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
The CW, 8:00 PM |
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Season finale of
Supernatural.
Chances are, at least one of the Winchesters
will be dead. (Until Fall, anyway.) |
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The CW, 9:00 |
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Season finale of
The Vampire
Diaries |
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Friday, May 14, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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The light and feelgood
read of the month,
Beyond
Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives, from
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature |
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Release of YA dystopian
novel
Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony |
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In US Theaters |
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Ridley Scott’s
Robin Hood,
starring Russell Crowe |
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Des Moines, Iowa |
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DemiCon |
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Phoenix, Arizona |
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LepreCon |
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Mobile, Alabama |
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MOBICON |
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Saturday, May 15, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Release of
Cities of
Night, Phillip Nutman’s horror anthology |
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Amazon.com and comic retailers |
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Scott Burn and Pablo
Churin’s forced intergalactic gladiator story,
Agon, collected, from Zenescope |
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Evil Dead’s
Ash goes to England in
comic book form in the
Army of
Darkness: Army of Light trade paperback |
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The CW, 8:00 PM |
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Season Finale of
Smallville,
which has already been renewed for a record-breaking
eleventh season. Huh. |
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Jennifer Brozek and Alan
Bundock’s kick-ass
Shanghai
Vampocalypse, in hardcover |
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Sunday, May 16, 2010 |
Amazon.com and good booksellers |
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Sheppard and the team
are in trouble again in
Stargate
Atlantis #12: Dead End by Chris Wright |
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Monday, May 17, 2010 |
Here! |
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Geek Speak Magazine,
Issue 3!
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-- The Geek Speak Staff
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