Sci-Fi Storm

Well, I finally got to spend some time with my Babylon 5 Second Season – The Coming of Shadows DVD set, and since I’d like more reviews on the site I guess I need to do some of my own. Read More for the complete review. And if you haven’t picked up your copy of either season, you can now order both!!!

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Some advance copies of the highly-anticipated and closely-guarded Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix may not have bee guarded well enough – as a couple of copies – apparently stolen from the printer – were found in a field near the printers by a father, who promptly turned them in to The Sun newspaper who will turn them in to the publisher and will not print details of the plot.

In honor of Douglas Adams, the BBC has taken the episode of Doctor Who he wrote but was never fully produced due to a strike, “Shada”, modified it a bit to use Paul McGann as the Doctor and Lalla Ward as (now Madame President of Gallifrey) Romana, and produced a Flash animation of the episode. It is being released episodically, with the first episode available now and then over the next 5 weeks on Fridays. It also works with RealPlayer.

Angela Mitchell writes “”Miracles” Fans Target Networks with Full-Page Ads in Variety and Hollywood Reporter!

Fan Campaign to Save Critically Acclaimed ABC Show Achieves National Coverage ? and Full-Page Ads in Vital Hollywood Trades” Read More for the full release.

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As you all know, the Season 2 Box Set of Babylon 5 will hit shelves and mailboxes next Tuesday 4/29. Well, the wonderful folks at Warner Bros. sent me some press materials, including links to excerpts of some of the interviews found on the set. I’ve cleaned up the links to be more presentable, so check them out, then pre-order your set before its too late!

New Line has announced that the DVD releases for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers will follow similarly to that of The Fellowship of the Ring. A basic version will be out August 26th, with an MSRP of $29.95 (VHS for $22.99), and a 4-disc extended version (with a rumored 43 extra minutes) will be out on November 18th.

I made some minor updates to the secondary server (stores, etc.) that should make it somewhat faster. Let me know if there are any glitches.

The winners for the 2002 Nebula Awards were announced this past weekend. Notables were Ursula K. Le Guin as the 20th Grand Master, Neil Gaiman taking Best Novel with American Gods, and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring winning Best Script.

This year’s Hugo Awards nominees have been announced and the awards themselves will be given out at Torcon 3, August 28th to September 1st in Toronto, Ontario. Read More for the nominee list. No web site category this year… :^(

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Paul Allen, co-founder of MicroSoft, is investing $10 to $20 million to build a “temple” to science fiction (NY Times – free reg. required). It is temporarily titled “SFX ? The Science Fiction Experience” and has an advisory board the includes Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke.