Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Awards: Judy Blundell, better known to Star Wars fans as Jude Watson, author of the Jedi Apprentice, Jedi Quest, and Last of the Jedi series’ for Scholastic, has won the National Book Award for her novel What I Saw and How I Lied.
UPDATE: GalleyCat now has a video interview with Blundell.
Author Michael Crichton died Tuesday of cancer at the age of 66.
Best known for the movies based on his novels, the novels themselves were a satisfying dip into the pool of science fiction. Such titles as Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, and Timeline have been enjoyed by many over the years. He was also the creator of the long running series ER on NBC and the screenwriter of Twister.
So last time, the traffic killed his server, but now he’s back with the third and final installment… Plus Zahn.
E-books of Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle, his first two Caine novels (currently out of print) have been given a tentative release date of November 4th.
As I’m technically still reading the most shameful series of my adolescence, linking MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits might very well be an act of supreme hypocrisy.
Oh well. I might still be an Expanded Universe fan (or am I?) but at least I never read The Wheel of Time. It’s a slim victory if anything, but I’ll take it. At least until I remember how many Melanie Rawn novels I own in hardcover.
UPDATE: But wait, there’s more!
Go boldly to the newstand: Star Trek is the cover story for the new Entertainment Weekly. The cover promises new photos and a set visit, but if you’re dying to see something, there are already a few images out and about the web. In any case, it shouldn’t be a long wait: We’ll see the story and images up at ew.com soon enough.
Bond joins the party: In other news, the first full trailer for Trek is set to be attached to Quantum of Solace.
Scalzi is hosting fan-favorite Matthew Stover in his Big Idea feature today – Stover is talking about his latest book, Caine Black Knife. Which, coincidentally enough, is in stores today.
Hyperion books is announcing today a new novel in the beloved Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. The new novel is to be written by the author of the Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer. The title of the new book is And Another Thing… The project is endorsed by Adams’ widow, Jane Belson.
The new book is scheduled for release in October of 2009, so we have a year of debate ahead of us if this is a good idea or not.
Not sure how this one slipped under the radar, other than the fact that we were too busy re-watching Dr. Horrible… Last month’s Myspace Dark Horse Presents included a Serenity comic one-shot, entitled “The Other Half”. Once again, Mal learns that jobs are never as simple as they are supposed to be. Check it out at Issue 13 of Myspace Dark Horse Presents
Some people just don’t know when they’re beat. But I suspect it’s going to take one hell of a revision to make the thing publishable. (via)