Sci-Fi Storm

It’s always difficult to get back into a normal routine after such events, but life does go on. Here is a nutshell report of some of what is going on in Sci-Fi, mostly condensed from Sci-Fi Wire: Buffy‘s James Marsters will guest on Andromeda as Nietzschean; Lucasfilm added $4 million worth of perks for the Episode I DVD; Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager) completes directing Enterprise‘s 7th episode; and AICN is offering X-Files spoilers.

I don’t want to reiterate what you already know, but a lot of us have been affected in one way or another by the cowardly attacks. I knew one of the passengers that was on board the first plane. Please focus your thoughts and prayers on the families of the thousands of victims.

djryan writes “JMS has posted a new update on what he’s up to. Some exciting news about Jeremiah, Rangers, and Rising stars here: I was about to repost this, but djryan saved me the time… :^) Here is a simpler link for the graphic novel: Delicate Creatures. Some other important things: Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers will debut January 2nd; Jeremiah on January 11th.

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I’m working on updating the site to use Slashcode 2.0. You might notice some glitches in the look-and-feel – I’m still sorting out some errors in the “theme”. Once I get all this straightened out, then we can see about tackling the features…

Update 9/6: Now that I’ve got a handle on the new templates, I’m adding a bit of 3D flair, so don’t complain too much if it looks funny…hmm…after adding the 3D stuff, I’ve noticed that it looks bad in Netscape 4.X. Looks OK in either IE or Mozilla/Netscape 6. Still trying to figure it out.

The third and final set of the Robotech – The Macross Saga DVDs is due out later this month. I’ve added them all to the Sci-Fi TV Store. Reviews will available soon at Bureau42.

Chris Berni writes “An international group of fans has started an online petition to speed up the release of 1995/96 TV series “American Gothic” on DVD. Read More for the complete details…

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Ben Bova confirmed with Sci Fi Wire that he’ll be writing three more Grand Tour novels, and also that [asin=0312848765]Precipice[/asin], the first book in his new Asteroid War series, and [asin=1570717850]The Story of Light[/asin], a nonfiction book about light’s influence on religion and other parts of our lives, both are due out next month.

I don’t think I ever mentioned that the DVD for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is due out on October 16th (probably because it was already on every blasted web site in existence), and Amazon lists the sales rank as #1. Maybe some of you haven’t pre-ordered it yet, but you can do so now over at [asin=B00003CX5P]Amazon.com[/asin] and support us at the same time…

It’s been all over the place, but for the sake of completeness: Aaliyah, the R&B artist who was to appear next to Keanu Reaves in the Matrix sequels, died Saturday when the plan she was on returning from the Bahamas crashed. It is still under investigation…

I have decided to let the public view an early edition of my next project, The Encyclopedia of Known Space, based on the universe of Larry Niven. It is very incomplete – I’m going through story my story, and thus far have only incorporated one collection and working on the second. But there is still some good stuff in there…let me know if there are any blatant errors.

Oops…the link is in there now…bad Mozilla… :^)