And then there's this...

Seriously Cool

Via SF Signal, Bear McCreary's "All Along the Watchtower," used in the last season finale of Battlestar Galactica, matched up here with some machinima battle sequences from EVE Online.



Seriously, cool, yes? And one more data point that makes me think the explosion of SF&F net-film is moments away...

Towards Perfection: Infoquake Inspired Artwork

Inspired by David Louis Edelman's Infoquake,and used for the cover to the newsletter for Camp Hill/Harrisburg, PA's SF&F reading group, Watch the Skies, for January 2009. Here's the link to the artwork, on Flickr.

MIDWINTER: Starred Review in PW

Yeah! A Starred Review in Publishers Weekly for Matthew Sturges' Midwinter!

Midwinter Matthew Sturges. Pyr, $15.98 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59102-734-8

Comic book writer Sturges (Jack of Fables) makes an impressive debut with this superb low fantasy. During the titular cold season, the imprisoned soldier Mauritane is offered the opportunity to earn his freedom if he undertakes a risky mission for Seelie Queen Titania. Mauritane brings along a motley crew from the prison, including a gorgeous foreign warrior elf, a disgraced guard and a human scientist trapped in their world. Their Dirty Dozen–style exploits are interwoven with political intrigues at both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Sturges deftly works in superb character development, solid action sequences and engaging heroes and villains, as well as an original and fascinating mythological backbone for the Fae world. Although there is certainly room for the planned sequel, this tale stands nicely on its own. (Mar.)

Sci Fi Wire on End of the Century:

Chris Roberson's latest novel proves that he's the Secret History go-to guy for the 21st century... he reveals the connections we never imagined between King Arthur and Alice in Wonderland, David Bowie and Jack the Ripper, swords and physics. To these elements, Roberson adds time travel, gaslight detection, Moorcockian extended families and temporal adventuresses, occult government research, cutting-edge scientific speculation and a sinister conspiracy that reaches to the end of time—and he braids everything together in three clever converging plots.

Coraline Trailer

I confess to being the only person on earth (apparently) who thought The Nightmare Before Christmas was "just okay." However, I'm pretty excited by this:

Matthew Sturges's Midwinter

Matthew Sturges' Midwinter

Art by Chris McGrath
Design by Grace M. Conti-Zilsberger

Tom Lloyd's The Twilight Herald

Tom Lloyd's The Twilight Herald

Art by Todd Lockwood
Design by Grace M. Conti-Zilsberger

Hellboy and Me

All writers are fans. However much they attempt to be the consummate professional in public, at conventions or in private they geek-out like the best. I have so much on my geek agenda it's almost a book in itself: The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Twilight Zone, Batman, Ray Bradbury, Michael Moorcock, Orson Welles, The Doors and the Universal monster movies for starters.

But way up the list is Mike Mignola's Hellboy. So when I was asked if I wanted to write a novel about the big red guy, I did what any other fan would do...



Art by Duncan Fegredo and Dave Stewart.

What would be your geek moment?

Mark Chadbourn

From the Typewriter to the Bookstore

Thanks to Mike Resnick for pointing this out. It's hysterical. And all true.