The Force is with us—some more than others. Editor Betsy Mitchell is one of them. She is responsible for working editorial on Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, probably the most influential Star Wars novel ever written. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the book’s release, Betsy answers questions about it! Enjoy! [...]
Fans would love to see an Heir to the Empire movie, and we would too! To celebrate the 20th anniversary edition of Heir to the Empire, we’re going to indulge in a little game of what-if, and we’d like for you to play along. We thought it would be fun to try to cast each [...]
Tomorrow, gamers will feel the thunder as Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine makes landfall on consoles throughout North America. As Captain Titus, one of the Empire’s elite Space Marines, players bring destruction to humanity’s enemies with chainswords, boltguns and other powerful weapons in a smoldering, war-torn landscape. Gamers who love an all-out brawl with plenty of [...]
Some governments have less moral qualms than others. Scientists are screaming towards perfecting germline manipulation, and to convince yourself of that just google “germline” and ignore my book results; focus on the scientific work. Others are working just as hard on cloning. I have no idea if any government is sponsoring or conducting such research [...]
Ben H. Winters’ Bedbugs (September 6, Quirk Books) is the horrific story of a woman coping with a persistent infestation of bed bugs in her new apartment. Or is she? Are the bed bugs real, or all in her head? Or maybe this is something worse than bed bugs. Zombie novels may disgust you. Ghost stories [...]
Christie Golden is the contributor for this week’s Take Five, a regular series where we ask authors and editors to share five facts about their latest books. Her book, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension, is available now. As Luke and Ben Skywalker pursue the formidable dark-side being Abeloth, the Lost Tribe of the [...]
Anime doesn’t hit mainstream America very often. Aside from Disney’s release of Studio Ghibli films, anime is almost never touched by mainstream companies. So imagine my surprise when I logged into my social networking page a few weeks ago and came across an ad titled “Hatsune Miku+Corolla.” Hatsune Miku is an anime character, and Corolla [...]
Guillermo del Toro is horror and fantasy filmmaking’s resident auteur. The Mexican filmmaker’s visionary aesthetic, drawn from a youth steeped in traditional folktales, the pagan-tinted Catholicism of his native Mexico and a steady diet of horror movies, casts an unnervingly long shadow in an anemic industry dominated by cookie cutter Halloween and Friday the 13th [...]
A Missouri public school board voted four to zero to remove two books out of a proposed three from the library of Republic High School Monday. One of them was Kurt Vonnegut’s science fiction novel Slaughterhouse Five. Four members were absent for the late evening vote. The 1969 novel uses a plot involving time travel [...]
Tokyohive reported last month that crews from Warner Bros. Japan will begin filming this summer on a live-action movie adaptation of the best-selling manga . Not negotiations, not production, bona fide filming. This is one manga-related green light you want to know about. Beyond filming a movie, a TV drama series is also planned, likely hinging [...]