Dear Reader - UK SF Book News has been put into hibernation and won't be updated for the foreseeable future. The site may return in some form, at some point, but in the meantime, please visit one of the following rather excellent sf / fantasy / horror / comics & graphic novel news websites or …
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UKSFBN currently in hibernation…
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Graham Masterton signing, Waterstone’s Colchester, May 10th
http://www.uksfbooknews.net/2008/04/29/graham-masterton-signing-waterstones-colchester-may-10th/Just a quick one via Matt Williams at the Graham Masterton e-bulletin list: "Message from Graham Masterton: 'I will be signing books at Waterstones in Culver Square, Colchester, Essex, around mid-day on May 10 2008, if you can have any books you need signing!'" Masterton's new novel, 5th Witch - …
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Ian R. MacLeod visiting the Birmingham SF Group, May 9th
http://www.uksfbooknews.net/2008/04/29/ian-r-macleod-visiting-the-birmingham-sf-group-may-9th/The Birmingham SF Group has been in touch to tell us about the next in their ongoing series of author talks: "On Friday 9th May the Birmingham Science Fiction Group welcomes award-winning author Ian R. MacLeod, to talk about what he's been up to recently. …
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UK SF Book News in hibernation
http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/news/?p=278has placed UKSFBN in hibernation for the foreseeable future, he is now the Online Marketing Exec for Orbit Books so doubtless time constraints (a problem I know only too well) have come into play. Source: UKSFBN Read More: Publishing, Web News, Zines No Comments Yet Publishing, Web News, Zines
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Rick's Café American
http://rickscafamerican.blogspot.comSF Signal: Movies Archive SF Signal: Star Trek Archive SF Signal: Star Wars Archive SF Signal: TV Archive SF Signal: Web Sites Archive Slice of SciFi Spiral Galaxy Reviews The Internet Review of Science Fiction The UK SF Book News Network The Website at the End of the Universe
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UKSFBN closes
http://bigdumbobject.co.uk/2008/05/uksfbn-closes.htmlDarren has finally called time on UKSFBN. He says it's hibernation, but it may be a long winter (he's now working for Orbit). UKSFBN evolved out of the trail-blazing The Alien Online website (what no Wikipedia page?!), whose list of past reviewers is really quite cool.
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A bit of an update… and an announcement
http://www.thegenrefiles.com/2008/05/07/a-bit-of-an-update-a...of whichever mag puts those out, without fail, or a second Humdrumming volume if that's how they appear. Great stuff. All of which pretty much brings me bang up to date, I reckon. Oh, apart from that announcement... I'm going to be moth-balling UK SF Book News in the very near future. It's something I've been thinking about on and off for about six months now. The recent re-design was my attempt to re-ignite my enthusiasm for the project, but alas, whilst tinkering in the belly of the Wordpress beast is
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Eternal Vigilance
http://www.gabriellefaust.comMagazines Blog Talk Radio Chizine Dark Scribe Magazine Darkened Horizons Magazine Doorways Magazine Elemental Musings Gothic Beauty Magazine Gothic Magazine Tomorrow’s Entertainment UK SF Book News
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Guys with Three Names
http://vampirewire.blogspot.com/2008/04/guys-with-three-name...and her adult novel, The Host. "I didn't write it differently, but some of the issues are different. I had the chance to explore a mother-daughter relationship and that's not really a YA thing." (The Canadian Press) Interview with M.M. Smith, aka, Mike Marshall Smith, on the U.K. release of his short ghost novel, The Servants. "I've always wanted to have the chance to write longer stories of the fantastical set in the present day, and now the door is open... I'm sure more will come. When I get the time..." Read my interview with
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Richard Morgan wins the Arthur C Clarke award
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=7279for his superb, powerhouse novel Black Man (published as Thirteen in the US). The shortlist, as always for the Clarkes, was a terrific, strong list of exceptionally good contemporary science fiction, such as Sarah Hall’s Carhullan Army (which won the James Tiptree award last month) and Ken MacLeod’s Execution Channel (absolutely one of the best novels I read last year) and so I don’t envy the judges trying to select one winner from them.
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Industry News 4-30-2008
http://shortscarystories.blogspot.com/2008/04/industry-news-...: "Zombie Strippers: Truth in advertising. Horror legend Robert Englund owns the strip club where porn queen Jenna Jameson plays the first of several zombie strippers whose lap dances absolutely kill their customers." Ian R. MacLeod visiting the Birmingham SF Group, May 9th : UK SF Book News: "'On Friday 9th May the Birmingham Science Fiction Group welcomes award-winning author Ian R. MacLeod, to talk about what he's been up to recently."
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544 kbit/s - EIN WITZ - T-Online startet Online-Film-Angebot
http://online-leben.com/2008/04/30/544-kbits-ein-witz-t-onli...jetzt mal das geld beiseite, mich macht die qualität stutzig. das _kann_ einfach nichts sein. bei divx oder xvid reichen 544 kbit/s nicht einmal dann für ein anständiges bild, wenn man 2-pass, nahezu völlig ohne keyframes encodet und der film zur hälfte aus standbildern besteht ;-). hinzu kommt noch der sound (wieder minimum 128 kbit/s). hier sind mal daten eines durchschnittlichen dvd-rips:
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The post-Alt.Fiction breakdown, part three.
http://troodler.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/the-post-altfiction...Horror making a tentative return to the UK mainstream publishing scene, but I’d accidentally shared the train journey to Derby with Adam Neville of Virgin and Guy Adams of Humdrumming, so kind of knew this one already (plus, of course, coverage on UKSFBooknews). There was discussion on what it takes to get published, just how important an agent is, what publishers do and don’t care about, and some very good advice for authors seeking publication. I was quite disappointed by the poor turnout for this one.
