Monday, September 20, 2010

Here!

• Geek Speak Magazine, Issue 7!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers

• Afterblight Chronicles: Arrowland by Paul Kane. If you’re thinking it sounds dystopian… you’re not wrong.

• Pax Britannia: Gods of Manhattan, steampunk from Al Ewing.

• Smallville Role Playing Game by Cam Banks, Joseph Blomquist, Roberta Olson, and Mary Blomquist. Who knew it took four people to make up one of those things?

• Trinity, Lauren Dane’s seventh novel of the Cascadia Wolves’ search for love.

• My Best Friend is a Wookiee: One Boy's Journey to Find His Place in the Galaxy by Tony Pacitti, runner up for this month’s Geek Speak Awesome Title Award.

Amazon.com and good DVD sellers

• Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett in Robin Hood. Already. On DVD and Blu-ray.

• Human Target, the Complete First Season, starring Mark Valley as bodyguard Christopher Chance, on DVD and Blu-ray. Watch it!

• Being Human, Season 2, on DVD and Blu-ray. Watch this, too!

• A gaunt but still hot Colin Farrell in Ondine, an Irish movie showing how belief in fairy tales can change your life, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Crazy double creature feature: Gamera Vs. Guiron / Gamera Vs. Jiger.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers

• The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles, another in the learned Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, by William Irwin and Gregory Bassham.

Friday, September 24, 2010

In US Theaters

• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, based on the beloved children’s books by Kathryn Lasky.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers

• Angel Souls and Devil Hearts, a re-issue of the second Peter Octavian novel by Christopher Golden.

• More reprints: Julie Kenner’s paranormal romance novels Aphrodite’s Flame, Aphrodite’s Kiss and Aphrodite’s Passion.

• Asimov’s The Currents of Space. Cool.

• Case and the Dreamer: Volume XIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Thirteen volumes and still full of awesome.

• Crown of the Blood, by Gav Thorpe, a novel of sword and… sword. For anyone who couldn’t get enough of 300.

• Dreadnought, steampunk from Cherie Priest. Meh.

• Eat Prey Love, more pun-titled vampire romance from the prolific Kerrelyn Sparks.

• Fangs for the Mammaries, a Baen anthology of vampires-in-the-suburbs short stories, edited by Esther Friesner.

• Full Moon Rising, the first Riley Jenson, Guardian novel by Keri Arthur and its sequels, Kissing Sin and Tempting Evil.

• The newest Wheel of Time doorstop, The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan and (mostly) Brandon Sanderson, out in paperback.

• The House on Durrow Street, Galen Beckett’s much anticipated sequel to his gothic horror Regency The Magicians and Mrs. Quent.

• The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force by Daniel Wallace, in hardcover. Go to it, young padawan.

• Jane and the Damned. Yep, another historical figure/monster mashup.

• Monster Hunter Vendetta, another “anti-Twilight” book of vampire carnage by Larry Correia.

• Out of the Dark, a whole new universe of splendid from the inimitable David Weber, based on the short story of the same name.

Amazon.com and good DVD sellers

• Iron Man 2, on DVD and Blu-ray. Enough said.

• The much missed Legend of the Seeker, Season 2, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, starring Summer Glau, Edward Asner, Tim Daly, and Andre Braugher! On DVD and Blu-ray.

• Astonishing X-Men – Gifted, starring Wolverine, Cyclops, and Beast, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• South Park: A Little Box of Butters. ‘Cause who wouldn’t want a whole box of that little dude?

• Paranormal State, the complete Season 4. Spooky.

• Oooh! Patrick McGoohan in the complete collection of Secret Agent, AKA Danger Man, on DVD.

• Suck, a modern vampire fable that attempts comedy. Never was a movie so well-named, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Creepy worst nightmare come true tale Frozen, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• How great is this? She-Ra, Season 1, Vol. 1, on DVD.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers

• Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, re-released in hardcover!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers

• A new Tom Holt romp, Blonde Bombshell.

• The Palace at Midnight, a collection of Robert Silverberg’s short stories, in hardcover.

• Return, a novella set in the world of his Innkeeper’s Song, by Peter S. Beagle.

Friday, October 1, 2010

In US Theaters

• Hatchet II, creepy serial killer sequel to, unsurprisingly, Hatchet.

• Let Me In, Hollywood’s take on Swedish insta-classic vampire tale Let the Right One In.

• The Social Network, a Facebook founder biopic.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers.

• The Book of the Living Dead, a “zombiethology” edited by John Richard Stephens.

• 1635: The Eastern Front, a new Ring of Fire novel by Eric Flint.

• Bones of Empire by William C. Dietz, sequel to his At Empire’s Edge.

• City Under the Sand: A Dark Sun Novel, a book based on Dungeons & Dragons by media tie-in maven Jeff Mariotte.

• The second book in her Fallen Angels series, Crave by Black Dagger Brotherhood author J. R. Ward.

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• Urban Fantasy with Grave Witch, the first Alex Craft novel, by Kalayna Price.

• Intrigues, Book 2 of The Collegium Chronicles, the latest Valdemar trilogy from Mercedes Lackey. (!!!!!)

• MYTH-Interpretations: The Worlds of Robert Asprin, a collection of short stories by Robert Asprin. Nice!

• Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker by Camille DeAngelis, winner of this month’s Geek Speak Awesome Title Award. (Sorry, Wookiee guy!)

• Project Exorcism by Mandy M Roth. Paranormal romance with a twist.

• Selfish is the Heart, the third Order of Solace novel by Megan Hart

• Ooh, new Sharon Shinn! Troubled Waters, in hardcover.

Amazon.com and good DVD sellers

• The Karate Kid (the Jaden Smith/Jackie Chan one) on DVD and Blu-ray.

• A Nightmare on Elm Street (the Jackie Earle Haley/Rooney Mara one) on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Splice on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Caprica, Season 1.0 on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Phineas and Ferb: A Very Perry Christmas, on DVD and Blu-ray. Want! Want!

• The Human Centipede on DVD and Blu-ray

• Charming indie animation in The Secret of Kells, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Medium, Season 6, on DVD and Blu-ray. Yikes!

• Stargate Universe, the complete first season, on DVD and Blu-ray. Double yikes!

• Doctor Who: Dreamland, the animated adventures of the tenth Doctor, voiced by David Tennant himself, on DVD. Interesting.

• The Blair Witch Project (whatever happened to Heather Donahue?) on Blu-ray for the first time.

• Space Chimps 2. Same voice actors and everything. Who’d have believed it?

Friday, October 8, 2010

In US Theaters

• It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, a comedy horror from Bend it Like Beckham’s Gurinder Chadha.

• My Soul to Take, an actual horror from Wes Craven.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers.

• Empress of Eternity, new SF by by L. E. Modesitt Jr. in hardcover.

• The Essential Clive Barker, selected fiction by Clive Barker. Okay, it’s Clive Barker. Got it.

• There’s a lot of buzz about this one. The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman.

• Knot Gneiss, a new punny Xanth title from Piers Anthony. (Yep. Really. They’re still coming.)

• Passion Play, a debut fantasy from Beth Bernobich.

Amazon.com and good DVD sellers

• How to Train Your Dragon, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• Dollhouse, Season 2, on DVD and Blu-ray. At last!

• The disturbing DC Comic alternate history Jonah Hex, on DVD and Blu-ray.

• The Ghost Whisperer, Season 5. Really?

• Wolverine & X-Men, the complete series, on DVD and Blu-ray. Very cool.

• Cartoon Network wacky science with Dexter’s Laboratory, Season 1, on DVD.

• The Lost Boys: The Thirst, another direct-to-DVD sequel, starring Corey Feldman and South African supermodel Tanit Phoenix. On DVD and Blu-ray.

• Possibly the coolest Christmas gift ever: The He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special on DVD.

• Carey Elwes and Andie McDowall in psychological horror/thriller As Good as Dead.

• S@man. (Yep, they mean Sandman.) A horror fetish film about horror fetish film. Lovely. On DVD and Blu-ray.

• Seven Deadly Sins. It’s about a small town Hell. Okey dokey. On DVD.

• Booky and the Secret Santa, worth mentioning because it stars Anne of Green Gables herself, Megan Follows, on DVD.

• Japanese Mutant Animals Attack! PsychoShark, on DVD.

• Another DVD box set of the complete Angel. Guess you can never have too many of those…

Friday, October 15, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers.

• Rise of the Dark Son, the third book in the high fantasy Damewood Trilogy by Erin Durante.

• The Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982 by Anne R. Dick. And who’s not intrigued by that?

• Doctor Who: Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock (!) in hardcover.

In US Theaters

• Based on the Warren Ellis graphic novel of the same name, Red, starring Bruce Willis.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Amazon.com and good booksellers.

• Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Cinema by M. Booker. Deep.

• Stargate Atlantis #16: Homecoming, by Jo Graham and Melissa Scott. Sure, but we’ve heard that before.

• Stargate SG-1 #17: Sunrise, by J.F. Crane and #18, Transitions by Sabine Bauer. We’ll believe it when we see it.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Here!

• Geek Speak Magazine, Issue 8!