23 years of this site still chugging along...
Final Wheel of Time novel will be finished
by Doc on Dec.11, 2007, under General News
Book 12 of the late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, A Memory of Light, will be finished. Tor Books has announced the selection of Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn) by Jordan’s wife and editor, Harriet Popham Rigney, to complete the book. Jordan left plenty of notes and audio recordings with which to build the remainder of the novel.
Jane Espenson on Star Trek, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica
by Doc on Dec.10, 2007, under Interviews
N.E. Lilly writes “Jane Espenson concludes her blog tour at SpaceWesterns.com where speaks about her experiences with Star Trek, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica.
Jane Espenson’s blog tour took her through the blogosphere from mid-October to early-December — taking her to sites ranging from Firefly Talk, to the USA Today Pop Candy blog — to promote her latest anthology of essays about Joss Whedon’s Firefly/Serenity ‘verse: Serenity Found from BenBella Books.
Jane Espenson is a Hugo Award‑winning screen‑writer who has worked on several science fiction television series including Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica, among others. She has also edited two anthologies of essays ? Finding Serenity and Serenity Found ? about Joss Whedon?s ?verse as seen in the television series Firefly and the major motion picture Serenity.
Interview with Jane Espenson at SpaceWesterns.com: http://www.spacewesterns.com/articles/37/
Jane Espenson Blog Tour: http://www.janeespenson.com/archives/00000444.php“
New Enterprise Campaign
by Doc on Dec.10, 2007, under Television
Bruce Allan writes in to inform us of a new letter writing campaign in the hopes of bringing back Star Trek: Enterprise. “New Enterprise Site & Forum On Line Now!
This site is for discussing the last Trek TV series (Star Trek Enterprise), which ran on the now defunct UPN,it is also Campaign Central for An Enterprise return to TV, with new episodes, while it is uncertain of how many fans are out there, the home page, which opened on June 22nd 2007, has had over 18,000 hits in just a few months, the forum was opened to the public on Nov 8th 2007.” Read More for the rest of the announcement, and visit the forums here.
Serenity will be back in comics
by Doc on Dec.09, 2007, under Comics
Serenity will be back – but not on video or film. Instead, it will appear as a Dark Horse comic book. It will start with a three-issue series called Serenity: Better Days, which looks back at the crew’s early years, and is due out this coming March. Also, Dark Horse will release a couple lunchbox designs.
On my way…
by Doc on Dec.09, 2007, under General News
I’m sending this from an airport on my way back home. I should be able to catch up on the news in the next couple of days after I recover… 🙂 Save me some time by submitting any interesting news stories…
Nippon 2007 report/Say Da to Moscow/Hotel Horrors
by Doc on Dec.09, 2007, under General News
TheThunderChild writes “The Commodore (aka Michael Sinclair) was a supporting member to Nippon 2007, and he shared the 150 page program book with The Thunder Child. http://thethunderchild.com/Conventions/Nippon2007/ .
Michael also shared with us his experiences with the Say Da To Moscow campaign of 1989, when he and his wife masterminded the attempt to get the WorldCon for Moscow. http://thethunderchild.com/Conventions/SayDaToMoscow.
And finally, Michael shared a few horror stories of hotels he’d stayed at during his fan-going days. http://thethunderchild.com/Conventions/CommodoresR amblings/HotelHorrors.html.”
On vacation…
by Doc on Dec.01, 2007, under General News
We’re taking the week off next week, so we’ll be back either Sunday or Monday next week after. Sometime soon after that we should be able to move to the new server and get a little speed into this bucket of bits.
Belated soundtrack reviews: Battlestar Galactica Season 3 and Superman: Doomsday
by Doc on Dec.01, 2007, under Audio
Here’s a couple of quick reviews for soundtracks that came out last month: Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 and Superman Doomsday.
Barrier, a proposed science fiction television series.
by Doc on Nov.30, 2007, under Television
Sheldon Whittaker (Creator of Barrier) writes “The space race enters new heights and speeds down under, as New Zealand producer Sheldon Whittaker proposes to film a futuristic science fiction television series called ?Barrier?.
It?s the year 2439; Earth is a member of the United Alliance of Independent Worlds (UAIW), a loosely bound government that has endorsed the ?Barrier Racing League? to promote the development of faster starship engines.
The series follows the adventures of a maverick racing team that finds itself in trouble after salvaging new technology from an alien derelict. The project is currently under a submission and review process with various producers, While this process is going on we have set up several casting and show oriented polls, to let interested SF fans have some input.
We also welcome suggestions for other surveys, polls, or events that we could run.
Thank you.
http://www.barrier.net.nz/“
First ever Sci-Fi Storm Gift Guide
by Doc on Nov.30, 2007, under General News
Here’s a first for Sci-Fi Storm: a 2007 Gift Guide. A collection of some of the really cool things (mostly videos) that have come out recently or due out really soon. FYI, the only income this site makes comes from the commissions on sales that you buy through our links (or anything else you may buy for an hour or so after following one of our links), and this year those commissions are WAY down…so if you like to shop from Amazon and having done your holiday shopping yet, take a look and buy some stuff…or just follow this link and buy just about anything…