Sci-Fi Storm

It seems that Daniel Radcliffe may not have been pleased to hear that author J.K. Rowling could write more Harry Potter books (she mentioned the possibility on Oprah last month). “Oh God, she promised me categorically that there wouldn’t be another book involving Harry,” he said in an interview with Sky News. “I think 10 years is a long time to spend with one character.” I suppose it would depend on what stories she wanted to tell, though….obviously if its going back to a younger Harry, he probably wouldn’t be in the movie – if a movie were to even be made.

Could there be more Harry Potter books in the future? To no one’s surprise, J.K. Rowling said it’s a possibility. On the Oprah Winfrey show aired earlier today she said, “”I could definitely write an eighth, ninth, tenth” book. She isn’t sure though. “I don’t think I will … I feel I am done, but you never know.” It sounds as if she might have the ideas for three more books, but really isn’t ready to revisit the former boy wizard – yet.

Harlan Ellison, in a phone interview The Daily Page, says he is dying. His health has been recently failing and there was some question as to whether he’d participate in person at MadCon 2010 (which kicks off tomorrow), where he is the Guest of Honor. “The truth of what’s going on here is that I’m dying,” he said. “An old dog senses when it’s his time — dogs have that capacity; nobody doubts that. Nobody. But everybody doubts when you say, ‘I’m dying.’ They think you’re being a Victorian actress. They think you’re doing Bernhardt.” He WILL be at MadCon, however (and it is planned to be his last con), and will answer all questions – except perhaps whether he really threw a fan down an elevator shaft…

Stumbled upon an interesting article on io9…it is about how Vonda McIntyre got into writing one of the first Star Trek tie-in novels, [asin=1451607539]”The Entropy Effect”[/asin], and how through that she gave Sulu his given name of “Hikaru”. Why? Because a love scene was awkward without it…

Bill Warren is perhaps best known for his seminal books on science fiction movies of the 1950s, Keep Watching the Skies, first published in two volumes in the 1980s, recently released in an expanded and updated version.

Bill was kind enough to give our Matt Sanborn an interview:
Bill Warren Interview

The Fourth Realm trilogy, written by John Twelve Hawks and deal with parallel universes, secret organizations and population control, has been optioned by Fox for adaptation into a movie, with Alex Tse (Watchmen) adapting the screenplay and Gil Netter (The Blind Side) and Andrew Tennenbaum (The Bourne Identity) producing. Can anyone provide a good overview or even better a review of the books?

The Thunder Child writes “New at The Thunder Child, science fiction and fantasy webzine, a review of the new hard-boiled fantasy mystery novel, Burn Me Deadly, by Alex Bledsoe, following on from his triumph The Sword-Edged Blonde.
http://thethunderchild.com/Reviews/Amy/BurnMeDeadly.html

In addition, we’ve got a new installment of Steve Vertlieb’s Views, his tribute to the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone. Published concurrently with Film Music Review:
http://thethunderchild.com/Television/1960s/ElementofTime.html

Check them out, and please enjoy”

Do books need to grab more attention nowadays? Because this is the best way I’ve seen yet to get someone interested in a novel…David J. Williams new novel The Burning Skies, a sequel to The Mirrored Heavens, comes out on May 19th (click on either title to order), but to grab a little extra attention it not only has a teaser trailer (Read More to see it), but also a breaking news site in addition to an extensive official site. The story follows after the terrorist group Autumn Rain has destroyed the Pheonix Space Elevator, it is now going after the Europa platform, an O’Neill-class dual-cylinder space habitat and the largest space station in existence.

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The Thunder Child writes “A one man show featuing excerpts from the works of Ray Bradbury is playing at the Fremont Theater in Los Angeles until March 8, 2009. It’s called The Illustrated Bradbury.

Show stars Tobias Anderson, who played the Fire Captain in the first theatrical production of Fahrenheit 451 at the Colony, 30 years ago.

http://dailyspace.blogspot.com/2009/02/illustrated -bradbury.html to read more.”

zombiejellyfish writes “Just a bit of news I found out at NYCC – Douglas Adams’ widow has selected a new author to continue the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The new book, “And Another Thing…” will be written by Eoin Colfer (of Artemis Fowl) and is slated to release worldwide on the 30th anniversary of the publication of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is October 2009. The book will bring back all of Adams’ characters (Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Zapod), and may, or may not pick up where Mostly Harmless left off. There’s a forum set up to talk about the book at www.dontpanicforum.com“ This was announced a while back, but it sounds like the release is more concrete to coincide with the anniversary.