Sci-Fi Storm

tcgardner writes “Anne McCaffrey’s lastest Pern novel, _The Skies of Pern_ , has been published.

Visit Del Rey’s website for an excerpt.”

dugh writes “according to this article at slashdot the official star wars site has been completely revamped with loads of tidbits for the upcoming movie. the slashdot article also has news on DVD rumors and facts and other information. definately worth the read!”

tcgardner writes “NASANews is reporting the testing of their new scramjet technology. The first of three tests will drop the X-43A test plane from a B-52 and accelerate it to Mach 7 with a Pegasus booster rocket. At that point the scramjet will engage and hold the plane at Mach 7. Other tests will take the plane to Mach 10.

The potential here is enourmous. In the future we may be able to launch,fly, and land our spacecraft as easily as conventional aircraft of today.

This is part of NASA’s Hyper-X Program.”

tcgardner writes “EOS books is holding their 4th annual EOSCON on April 21st. The list of authors on the chats looks impressive and the chat topics look good too. Register and get your questions in on the 21st.” Read More for details…

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tcgardner writes “This is a listing of US releases of SF & Fantasy books in May 2001. Read More for the complete list…

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dugh writes “orson scott card has posted his original “ender’s game” short story that was first printed way back in 77. the story is here. Hatrack River, mr. card’s site, is a plethora of information for scifi readers *and* writers.”

Jeanne Cavelos writes “I’m the author of the new BABYLON 5 trilogy, THE PASSING OF THE TECHNO-MAGES. The first book, CASTING SHADOWS, was just released by Del Rey in March.”

Read More to see the rest of what Jeanne has to say. And stop by the B5 Store to order Casting Shadows or pre-order Summoning Light from Amazon.com.

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Our first entry in the Science Fact Dept.: CNN.com is reporting that a Solar Sail test craft being tested in Russia has been damaged. It seems that during an electrical systems test, the craft began “normal” operations, which included the firing of the explosive bolts on several latches.

All 22 episodes of Stargate SG-1 on 5 DVDs in a single box set? Yup…MGM is releasing this set the way ALL series should be done (do you hear me, Warner Home Video???) They will make it to retail stores in May, but Amazon says they’ll ship April 10th!!!
Pre-order now and pay only $62.97 (and we’ll get a modest cut as well!) And coming soon, a Stargate SG-1 Store to gather all the merchandise we can together…

Update 3/19: A preliminary version of the Stargate SG-1 store is online…get your Stargate SG-1 and Stargate movie merchandise from Amazon.com and help support Sci-Fi Storm…

Update 4/9: Bah! Seems Amazon isn’t getting them early – the release date is now May 22nd. I also found out they don’t want me listing release dates on the store page, so I’m just going to say “Released soon” from now on…

Remember the poll a while back here where you could vote for who you’d like to see in the X-Men sequel? Well, Read More and find out if your fave is likely to make it…

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