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Fathom by Cherie Priest Fantasy author Cherie Priest says that her new novel, Fathom, has its roots in a vivid dream she had while vacationing near an abandoned old house. “[The house was] boarded up and surrounded by trees, with the property’s edge just barely out of high tide’s reach,” Priest said. “It was lovely
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The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel by Steven Hall Simon Beaufoy, screenwriter of such films as The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire, told a group of journalists that he has finished a draft of a screenplay based on the book The Raw Shark Texts, a novel by Steven Hall that deals with the metaphysical erasure
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Deryni Rising (Chronicles of the Deryni) by Katherine Kurtz Columbia Pictures is bringing Katherine Kurtz’s fantasy book Deryni Rising to the big screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The studio has picked up Deryni as a spec script by Alex Sabeti. Jimmy Miller is producing via his Mosaic banner. Deryni is a historical fantasy novel
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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel The Forever War, and Ridley Scott is planning to make it into his first science fiction film since he delivered back-to-back classics with Blade Runner and Alien, Variety reported. Scott intended to follow those films with The Forever War,
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Blindness by Jose Saramago The creators of the upcoming SF movie Blindness tried to remain true to the source material, the acclaimed Portuguese novel by Jose Saramago. In a group interview in New York on Sept. 22, writer and co-star Don McKellar and director Fernando Meirelles said that they fought long and hard to acquire
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Quofum by Alan Dean Foster Best-selling SF author Alan Dean Foster told SCI FI Wire that his new novel, Quofum, deals with a planet where evolution has run riot and makes no sense. “Consequently, I had to develop not just one evolutionary sequence, but multiples,” Foster said in an interview. “This required more than the
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The Last Centurion by John Ringo Best-selling SF author John Ringo told SCI FI Wire that his new novel, The Last Centurion, felt like dictation from the future, but, given the subject matter, he prays to God it wasn’t. “Many of the subjects discussed in the book are subjects I’ve studied for other reasons, some
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Nation by Terry Pratchett Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Nation, deals with the island survivors of a tsunami, but the first pieces of the story came to him about six months before the 2004 tsunami that devastated several Asian countries. “I’d hate people to think that I
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From what I’ve read, this will be a Pixar movie, half animation and half live-action. The idea is something I’ve hoped for, for quite some time. I’d just hoped it would be an adaptation of The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin, now that would make a great animation/live action movie! Please, somebody make this!