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MONTREAL, Canada, June 28, 2007
Movie Seals Productions is proud to announce that their latest sci-fi / action film RECON 2022: The Mezzo Incident and their critically acclaimed vigilante film Deaden will have their North American Premieres at the FanTasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.
In Deaden, the story follows John Fallon as Rane, an ex-undercover cop forced to witness the brutal rape and murder of his pregnant wife (Anna Jaeger) by the ruthless members of a biker gang who have learned about his old policemen days. Shot through the head with a crossbow and dumped into a canal, Rane is believed to be dead… but miraculously survives the ordeal. Upon his exit from the hospital, he teams up with his old crime buddy Kersey (Deke Richards), arms himself to the teeth, and goes on a drug fueled, psychotic rampage all in the name of unapologetic retribution.
Deaden will screen on July 14th, 2007 at 7:30 PM. Producer/Director Christian Viel and actor/writer/producer John Fallon will be attending and stay for a Q&A following the movie.
About Movie Seals Productions:
Movie Seals Productions: This Montreal-based company is run by a talented director/screenwriter Christian Viel. Beside the award-winning Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre and the critically acclaimed Deaden, this fast growing production company has recently produced a sequel to Recon 2020: Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident. They are currently in pre-production of the last chapter of the Recon trilogy.
About the Fantasia Film Festival:
Since its inception in 1996, FanTasia has been an event hell-bent on showcasing the most exciting, innovative and individualistic examples of contemporary international genre cinema, with an emphasis on unveiling films very rarely seen in North America. With its 70 000 festival-goers FanTasia can be proudly called as one of the biggest festivals in the world. This year issue happens June 5 -25.
Recon 2022 Official website:
http://www.recon2022-movie.com/
Deaden Official Website:
http://www.deaden-movie.com/
Movie Seals Productions website:
http://www.movieseals.biz/
Fantasia Film Festival site:
http://www.fantasiafest.com/2007
Festival description of the films:
http://www.fantasiafest.com/2007/en/films/film_detail.php?id=297
http://www.fantasiafest.com/2007/en/films/film_detail.php?id=225
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MONTREAL, Canada, June 28, 2007
Movie Seals Productions is proud to announce that their latest sci-fi / action film RECON 2022: The Mezzo Incident and their critically acclaimed vigilante film Deaden will have their North American Premieres at the FanTasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.
From a screenplay written by Christian Viel, John Fallon and William Alexander, the action packed story of RECON 2022: the Mezzo Incident picks up two years after the events of the first film and introduces a new cast of endearing characters as well as bringing back familiar ones. After the gruesome events on Caprini, Sharp (Anderson Bradshaw) and his elite team of tough, witty and trigger happy space Marines must now head out to the icy planet Mezzo to investigate further Ma’har activities. What they will encounter will defy their imaginations as they tackle giant man eating snow worms, an underground city of Cyborgs, a slew of murderous alien entities and maybe, finally, the ever elusive Ma’hars.
Recon 2022:The Mezzo Incident will play on July 19th, 2007 at 9:20 PM and be will be hosted by director Christian Viel and star Anderson Bradshaw.
About Movie Seals Productions:
Movie Seals Productions: This Montreal-based company is run by a talented director/screenwriter Christian Viel. Beside the award-winning Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre and the critically acclaimed Deaden, this fast growing production company has recently produced a sequel to Recon 2020: Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident. They are currently in pre-production of the last chapter of the Recon trilogy.
About the Fantasia Film Festival:
Since its inception in 1996, FanTasia has been an event hell-bent on showcasing the most exciting, innovative and individualistic examples of contemporary international genre cinema, with an emphasis on unveiling films very rarely seen in North America. With its 70 000 festival-goers FanTasia can be proudly called as one of the biggest festivals in the world. This year issue happens June 5 -25.
Recon 2022 Official website:
http://www.recon2022-movie.com/
Deaden Official Website:
http://www.deaden-movie.com/
Movie Seals Productions website:
http://www.movieseals.biz/
Fantasia Film Festival site:
http://www.fantasiafest.com/2007
Festival description of the films:
http://www.fantasiafest.com/2007/en/films/film_detail.php?id=297
http://www.fantasiafest.com/2007/en/films/film_detail.php?id=225
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Philip K Dick Rare Interview : A Scanner Darkly 1977 by Richard Hawkins on August 16th, 2006
Paul Giamatti To Play Philip K Dick? by Richard Hawkins on August 14th, 2006
DIY Star Wars Props by Richard Hawkins on December 20th, 2006
The Planet : Stirton Productions by Richard Hawkins on July 21st, 2006
Edgar Allen Poe's: The Raven: At The Institute Of Contemporary Arts, London by Richard Hawkins on July 15th, 2007
Cybernetic Humanoid Cyborg Artwork: Luminaries: Et Cetra Gallery, Hackney, London
Jane Webb is an artist that is influenced by science fiction and fantasy. She has a series of cybernectic humanoids (cyborgs) and some alien casted glass work in an art exhibition from 26th July - 2nd August, entitled Luminaries.
Luminaries Venue:
Et Cetra Gallery
1a Darnley Road
Hackney
London E9 6QH
Price:
Free!
Nearest Rail Station:
Hackney Central
Timings:
Monday - Friday 12am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm.
Jane has been shortlisted a couple of times this year, of which, a list is below. She currently has some work entirled Cyborg DJ on display at the V&A Museum.
Even though Jane prefers to sculpture, she has taken time out to write about her work, explaining her love for creation, science fiction and the ‘not watching properly’ of fantasy and scifi movies.
She is influenced by a lot of science fiction and futuristic imagery from movies and other artists. The strangest thing is she doesn’t watch the movie and keep with the story line, she only watches for visual simulation. She gets too easily distracted by the props, costumes and effects, having a strong interest in mechanical and robotic imagery
going back to early days of the Metropolis movie.
More recently Jane has been working on cyborgs, which have been a strong influence on her work with a combination of lighting effects. United Artists collabarated with Massive Attack to produce an art installation called Volume, If you love the green coded lights on the Matrix, you’ll love this she says. Jane is also inspired by the works of the great H. R . Giger, as seen in the Alien films.
She works in many medias but prodemantly using glass, lighting, circuit boards and recycled computer components, most of which is found on the street. She strips down the components inside anything electrical, looking for interesting parts. Little know fact: the inside of a hair dryer makes a good cyborg eye. Then depending what she is working on, these get constructed with other media and extra wiring and some type of what she calls a wow factor, like lighting with a UV or a set of LEDs spinning on a fan in sequences.
Her glass work can range from her mirror light boxes with imagery, to fused glass. She did a series of an Alien embossed tile in glass and ceramics. This was a long process of mould making and experimenting in a kiln until the desired finished result was achieved. The black tile has been acid etched to give it more depth. If you love H. R. Giger’s work you will definitely love this. She often makes them for collectors on a commission basis.
The Luminaries show coming up is a joint show with artist and photographer John Williams.
Jane Webb is a glass and illumination artist using numerous Medias. This year Jane has been short listed for Pride in the House and Inspire by awards and currently has Cyborg DJ on display in the V&A Museum. Her more recent futuristic works of cybernetic humanoids sculptures and installations combine lighting, recycled computer and electronic components which are found littering our London streets.
These items are salvaged and transformed into cyborgs.
John Williams’ Info:
John Williams creates black and white photographic works in “free-form”. He does this by folding weaving, plaiting and even crushing light-sensitive papers into life size free standing and relief sculptures. Working in three dimensions allows him to exploit the normally forbidden spaces above and below the conventional darkroom focal plane.
Re-objectifying the subject into a physical structure that can be walked around and seen through, change expression as well as casting actual shadows.
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Glow Paint Ceilings: Star Wars: Star Trek: Doctor Who: Fantasy: Star Scenes by Richard Hawkins on January 21st, 2008
BLOCspace Quatermass Details by Richard Hawkins on March 20th, 2006
Interzone 203 by Richard Hawkins on March 15th, 2006
Complete Fabrication: Scifi Design And Construction by Richard Hawkins on August 13th, 2007
Interzone 204 by Richard Hawkins on May 3rd, 2006
Parallel Futures: An Evening Of Scifi Flicks
Elliot Russell at Parallel Futures has organised a Sci-Fi film evening entitled Parallel Futures. Specialising in independant and rare sci-fi films set in the future.
Parallel Futures are also on the look out for sci-fi films to show. So if you want to put your film forward to be showcased, then let him know.
The event has been confirmed to start on Sunday the 7th of October 2007 in the basement of the Juno bar in Shoreditch at 19:00.
Event Lineup:
19:00 The stall opens, you can buy refreshments
20:00 3021 a war in space
20:20 10 min break
20:30 Future Wars
21:00 10 min break
21:10 Cyberpunk Genre
21:13 Ariella
21:23 12 min break
21:35 Karate Ruler
21:50 Twitch
22:00 Stall re-opens, can get refreshments
23:00 Event closes
The Address For The Venuer Is:
134/135 Shoreditch High Street, Shoreditch, London, E1 6JE.
The Nearest Train Station:
Old Street.
Directions To The Event:
Once you leave the ticket barriers of the station, turn left and then follow the signs that lead you out of Exit 2.
Once you are out of Exit 2 walk straight on, crossing any roads that you come to until you come to a metal bridge.
Walk under the bridge to the other side, turn left and cross the road.
Then you walk straight on and keep looking left for a billboard that says ‘Juno Bar’. The basement to the bar will be on your left as soon as you enter the bar.
At the bottom of the stairs will be a doorman to sell entry tickets.
Pricing:
Entry on the door will be £8, or you make an advanced booking for £7 by ordering a ticket at: http://parallelfutures.moonfruit.com/ and follow the links.
Contact Info And Questions:
You can contact Parallel Futures on their website at: http://parallelfutures.moonfruit.com/.
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Battlestar Galactica Mini Series by Richard Hawkins on September 8th, 2005
Night Watch: Day Watch (Dnevnoi Dozor): Russian Fantasy Horror by Richard Hawkins on July 22nd, 2007
GAMERZ The Movie by Richard Hawkins on October 31st, 2005
The Prestige Movie Trailer by Richard Hawkins on July 22nd, 2006
Punk Fantasy: BloodSpell by Richard Hawkins on August 5th, 2006
British Fantasy Award Longlist: The Last Reef: Gareth Lyn Powell: IZ202
Gareth Lyn Powell’s story The Last Reef has been longlisted for the British Fantasy Award. It was first published in Interzone 202 and complimented by illustrations by Vincent Chong.
You can read an interview with Gareth Lyn Powell here.
And read the story, The Last Reef on the Interzone site.
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Science Fiction Blogs by Richard Hawkins on August 27th, 2006
Gerald Libonati : Blue Nights In Atlantis Review by Richard Hawkins on August 25th, 2006
Interzone Magazine by Richard Hawkins on July 31st, 2005
A Family Darkly: Love, Loss And The Final Passions Of Philip K Dick by Richard Hawkins on September 21st, 2005
Charles Stross: Accelerando Online by Richard Hawkins on November 17th, 2005
* ‘The Story Shall Be Changed’: Tales and Re-tellings in the Short Story
* Saturday 21st July 2007, Edge Hill University
The short story is a protean form, encompassing myth, fable, anecdote, tall tales, yarns and literary experimentation. Rooted in oral tradition, storytelling has a special affinity with popular genres such as science fiction and tales of the supernatural.
In this second one-day conference on the short story at Edge Hill, we focus on this multiplicity of forms and genres. We also consider the re-imagining of familiar narratives, themes and imagery; and the invention of new ones. How is the short story being transformed in the twenty-first century?
The conference is linked with the inaugural presentation of the Edge Hill Prize, for a published single author collection from the British Isles. The winner will be announced on the eve of the conference, and it is hoped that writers from the shortlist (announced May 2007) will take part in the conference reading.
Confirmed speakers include:
* Professor Alan Wall (Richard Dadd in Bedlam and Other Stories)
* Andy Sawyer (Science Fiction Foundation, University of Liverpool)
* Cecilia Morreau (Leaf Books)
Call for Papers
Proposals for 20 minute papers are invited from all those writing and researching the short story, whether as practitioners or literary scholars (or both). Practice-based presentations are welcome. Suggested topics:
* Genre and sub-genre – crime – horror – the ghost story – fantasy – science fiction – gothic – erotica – autobiography – online writing – multi-media – hybrid genres.
* Intertextuality – myth and symbolism – image-based fiction – the epiphany – adaptation - oral storytelling - modernism and postmodernism.
* Individual authors – re-readings and reworkings – writing in translation - postcolonial fiction – experiment and innovation – novellas – story sequences – flash fiction – anthologies.
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Interzone 200 by Richard Hawkins on September 7th, 2005
Universe Pathways : English Edition 2 by Gareth D. Jones on August 10th, 2006
Fiction Magazine: Issue Two by Gareth D. Jones on July 6th, 2007
Murky Depths by Richard Hawkins on November 20th, 2006
Aphelion Webzine 10 Year Anniversary Issue Review by Gareth D. Jones on February 20th, 2007
Interzone : Britain’s Longest Running Scifi / Fantasy Magazine
Interzone 211 (July/Aug 2007)
Cover Art: Interzone’s striking new cover design starts with Richard Marchand’s ‘Lunar Flare’ and leads with news that Interzone 211 is a special edition featuring Michael Moorcock, the writer described by the late Angela Carter as “a lord of misrule, whose work is the nearest thing we have in English to a never-ending carnival.”
Contents
Moorcock’s name will trigger a host of associations for SF and other readers. In his half century spanning career he has given us the albino warrior Elric of Melniboné; the multiverse-traversing trickster-victim Jerry Cornelius; the genre-bending voyages of the Von Bek dynasty; a masterful secret history of the twentieth century related by the self-deceiving Colonel Pyat; an unforgettable examination of the impulses for faith and martyrdom in Behold the Man; the exploits of steampunk time traveller Oswald Bastable; and the book IZ co-editor Andy Hedgecock would take to a desert island if Kirsty Young allowed him just one – Mother London, the magnificently mythic, affecting and optimistic celebration of life in the city.
Unmentioned as yet: the Hawkmoon books, the Dancers at the End of Time cycle or his, partly satirical, response to the works of J.R.R. Tolkein, The Chronicles of Corum.
And, as editor of New Worlds (1964 - 1971), Moorcock strove to encourage sf with greater narrative and linguistic complexity and to shift its focus towards the way we were living at the end of the twentieth century – towards an examination of our morality, our psychology and our sexuality.
A never-ending carnival indeed. But there’s a lot more to Michael Moorcock’s work than its variety. And while David Pringle, Interzone’s former editor, was spot-on in calling Moorcock “the consummate professional entertainer”, what makes Moorock unique is his ability to combine dazzling, compelling and accessible storytelling with relentlessly challenging moral exploration.
In 1999, Alan Warner (Morvern Callar and These Demented Lands) chose Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius Quartet as one of his ‘essential classics for the next 100 years’, saying: “… no other contemporary English writer seems to capture the moral dilemmas around us with such wry good humour, vigour and style in such a richly modernist way.”
The moral focus Warner talks about has always been a defining aspect of Moorcock’s work, but it has become more concentrated, more intense as he has honed his craft over the years. In 1982, as Interzone began publication, Moorcock was entering a new phase of moral engagement with his searing examination of sexual obsession, escapism and alienation, The Brothel in Rosenstrasse. Since then we’ve had the final three quarters of the Pyat quartet; the wonderful ‘Mother London’, an angry but hilarious outing for Jerry Cornelius in ‘The Alchemist’s Question’; the savagely satirical fable King of the City; and an underrated but, for some, hugely influential polemic, The Retreat from Liberty.
Talking of polemics, read Michael Moorcock’s Guest Editorial, ‘The March of the Whiteshirts’. It’s a fascinating dissection of the deadening effect of cultural stasis and conformity over the past four decades, and a plea for a vibrant counterculture to challenge the domination of the ‘Whiteshirts’. It makes an inspiring start to a cracking Moorcock special:
Michael Moorcock:
Guest Editorial: The March of the Whiteshirts
The Affair of the Bassin les Hivers (short story)
Lovers: A Memoir of Mervyn and Maeve Peake (extract from work in progress)
London, My Life! or The Sedentary Jew (extract from novel in progress)
Interviewed by Andrew Hedgecock: Staring Down the Witches (with unpublished photos)
In the rest of Interzone 211:
Original Fiction
Exvisible by Carlos Hernandez
illustrated by Fraser Warwick-Coombe
Deer Flight by Aliette de Bodard
illustrated by Stefan Olsen
Elevator Episodes in Seven Genres by Ahmed A. Khan
Knowledge by Grace Dugan
illustrated by David Gentry
Non Fiction
25 IZ: Celebrating 25 Years of Interzone, with contributions from John Picacio, Jason Stoddard, Paul Di Filippo, Eric Brown, Gwyneth Jones, Jamie Barras, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian R. MacLeod, Stephen Baxter.
Ansible Link by David Langford: news and gossip.
Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe: film reviews
Laser Fodder @ 500 RPM by Tony Lee: DVD reviews (NEW!)
Scores by John Clute: book reviews
Interview Richard Morgan on Black Man/Thirteen, by Andrew Hedgecock
Bookzone: more book reviews
Mangazone by Sarah Ash: manga reviews
Coming soon with double page spreads, and… for subscribers only, a bookmark!
Overall, 4 more pages than usual, at 68, matt art paper, plus gloss sealed cover and printed in full colour throughout.
Oh blimey, that artwork and font is cool!
25th Anniversary OFFER FOR SCIFI UK REVIEW Readers!
Running through the whole of 2007 SCIFI UK REVIEW readers can obtain 25% extra issues on a 12-issue subscription (that’s six months worth) from the Interzone Subscription Site. (That’s three whole issues, free!)
Remember to include ’scifi.uk’ as your Shopper’s Reference so they know to include your extra free issues!
The INTERACTION Interzone / TTA Press Forum.
Read past reviews and articles on Interzone, it will give you an idea of the content and how it has transformed into the sensewunda it is today.
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Interzone 207 Review by Richard Hawkins on December 17th, 2006
Archeology Of The Future by Richard Hawkins on June 1st, 2006
Subscribe To Scifi Magazines by Richard Hawkins on July 16th, 2005
Interzone 200 by Richard Hawkins on September 7th, 2005
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator: Issue 0 Promo by Richard Hawkins on February 22nd, 2007
2K Games To Publish The Darkness, A Console Game Based On Renowned Comic Book Franchise
The Darkness Videogame to Feature First-person Action in Gritty,Urban New York Environments and Dark Otherworld
2K Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that it will publish and distribute The Darkness, a premier videogame based on the popular comic book franchise. The Darkness is currently in development for next generation console systems and will be released on 29th June.
Under development by renowned Swedish developer Starbreeze Studios, The Darkness is based on the best-selling comic book series from Top Cow Productions and utilises an internally developed next-generation game engine. The Darkness will feature a distinct blend of dark modern crime drama and supernatural horror with intense first-person non-linear gameplay.
“The Darkness videogame is a dynamic first-person shooter that will allow players to call upon the forces of the evil underworld as they fight in gritty, urban environments armed with an arsenal of guns, demonic creatures and supernatural powers.” said Christoph Hartmann, Managing Director of 2K Games. “The dark and dynamic comic book storyline that fans love will translate well into first-person action.”
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Book 1: Cassandra Peel And The Wild Gods Of Cyberspace
J. Robert Maze has, in Cassandra Peel Series, woven together contemporary life and technology, with classical Greek mythology.
In the first book, Cassandra Peel And The Wild Gods Of Cyberspace (WGOCS), Cassandra, working on her computer, accidentally accesses Greek goddess Athena in cyberspace. School friend Giorgio, an internet technobuff, develops a Virtual Reality helmet, and Hephaistos, craftsman god well advanced in electronics, secretly incorporates in it a mechanism which converts Virtual Reality into Bodily Reality.
Hephaistos and Aphrodite use this to spirit Cassandra bodily away into Greek cyberspace, allegedly to assist them to undo war-god Ares’ machinations. Ares is fomenting religious hatred between two tribes in a remote eastern European mountain village. Beneath this village is a vast reserve of oil, coveted by two opposed Axes of oil-consuming nations, who will seize any opportunity to intervene and take over. Our heroes, with the help of Hephaistos, his beautiful robot maid-servant Eliza, and the complex Indian goddess Durga who comes to the aid of another school friend Parvati, foil this plot.
Aphrodite is revealed as a secret devotee and accomplice of Ares, her former lover, whom she praises on Network Olympia as a Man of Peace through War.
The characters from Homer’s Iliad and from Indian mythology live riotously in cyberspace in present time, treasuring up loves and hates that began three thousand or so years ago. Each of the gods represents some universal human passion. These passions are alive still, operating in present day affairs. One of the premises of the novel series is that the ancient deities’ interactions offer an analogue for today’s social and international undercurrents. Since the deities possess mythical being, and the myths are extant in mass entertainment, it is imaginable those old gods still exist and follow their favourite amusement of interfering in mortal affairs.
The three novels can be appreciated by readers of different levels of maturity, and are especially for mature teenage and older readers, aged 15+ years. They can be read as adventure stories incorporating interesting characters from classical mythology, as parables of contemporary history and society, or as explorations of core psychological themes of conscious and unconscious origin.
Cassandra and her friends make great reading. I found myself immersed in the book following their antics and liking the interaction between the real world and the virtual worlds. It has a very strong message to give out which mirrors today’s society, with the oil and war.
I am not really into Greek Mythology and don’t really know a lot about it (apart from Xena The Princess Warrior), but that doesn’t affect the readability - seeing the ‘gods’ come to life on the page is enjoyable, seeing them interact, help each other, even crack a joke or two, is enjoyable. The logic being different bits of technology the kids use is spot on, and adds to its ’scifi realism’. Again, it’s a bunch of kids saving the world (from World War III), but it’s almost tongue in cheek, but with a serious message.
That said, I’d prefer to call Cassandra Peel And The Wild Gods Of Cyberspace predominantly ‘life-fi’, as you almost forget they’re teleporting in and out of virtual realiy, it just becomes ‘normal’ and you concentrate on the gods and people’s interaction.
For all you saturated Harry Potter fans to get your teeth into. And even if you’re not, it’s a great read, thoroughly recommended.
The fourth Cassandra Peel novel is due out by the middle of 2007.
Show All Review Of The Cassandra Series.
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The Lost Art: Simon Morden: David Fickling Books: Random House Children's Scifi by Richard Hawkins on July 30th, 2007
War Of The Worlds: H G Wells by Richard Hawkins on September 7th, 2005
REVIEW: Skaters, Trekkies And Cool Dudes : Derek Lawrence by Richard Hawkins on March 14th, 2007
A Maze Of Death: Philip K Dick by Richard Hawkins on September 8th, 2005
The Sticky Rock Cafe : Dekaydence, Teabags, GeeZers And Haggoids
One thing that stands out, even only after reading the back cover is the number of fuzzzywuzzy, cutesey names which most of the characters are blessed with. The GeeZers are a group of teenage eco-warriors fighting to save the dying planet Earth. The King and The Prime Minister, on the other hand, create Stick Rock Cafes, developed by the Company Of Dekaydence, to take the GeeZers’ minds off the environmental stuggle. The Cafes are places where young people can go to drink cappuccinos and listen to (manufactured) rock songs. Will, the King’s nephew, secretly supports the GeeZers. Ruby Q Cooper is a want to be journalist, looking for her mother, who abandoned her as a child. Piccolo wants to be become a musician.
All three of them embark on an adventure which takes them through the mysterious, hi-tech world of Dekaydence, meeting Tartan Guards, wild haggoids, Eye-Spies, a composer knighted for his services to loud music, and missing decorators.
Being a fananatical tea-drinker, this book has to have one of the best opening lines I’ve ever read: ‘’I blame the teabag for the collapse of civilisation,'’.
The Sticky Rock Cafe has so much going for it, bright characters, weird creatures (which would do well to scare people into helping to save our planet today). Unfortunately, there is too much going on at any one time, with seperate stories and more than a handful of characters; it would have been better if it had been lengthened slightly to allow breathing space, as at time it’s claustrophobic. There is a Dramatis Personae at the beginning which lists the majority of the characters and their roles, which is a good idea.
The characters are believable, with Piccolo (the want to be musician) and Taylor (the just want to be famous, probably an actress) coming across as most realistic. It makes a refreshing change to see a group of teenagers help to save a close-to-home world, rather than a totally fantasy one. There are some truly funny scenes, but these are sparse, with the action seeming to revolve around a lot of running and ‘right place at the right time’ narrative. This works well for younger readers (which appears to be its audience).
The story also disturbed me in a way too; it seems to echo something which is quite plausable, an entity setup by the ‘powers that be’ to curtain people’s thinking and actions.
Definitely a fantasy for the younger readers amongst us.
Susie Cornfield was given a typewriter when she was seven years old and can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to be a writer. She trained as a journalist on a local newspaper before joining The Sunday Times. She went on to be a columnist on The Sunday Telegraph Magazine while working as a documentary writer for BBC TV. She has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines and was a TV presenter/producer for United Artists.
She works from a garret on a hill in south London, emerging sometimes to spend time with her family, friends and cat, BB Edwards, play tennis with a group of retrobates, The Racqueteers, listen to or play music, and read.
Read Chapter One
http://www.garretbooks.com/srctext1.html
Listen To Martin Jarvis Read Chapter One
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The Sticky Rock Cafe by Susie Cornfield (Garret Books, £6.99) is available nationwide from all good bookshops including Waterstones and your local independent bookshop, as well as on-line.
ISBN: 0955227909 or 9 780955 227905
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Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, Book 1): Arthur C Clarke And Steven Baxter by Richard Hawkins on September 7th, 2005
Hybrids: David Thorpe: Harper Collins Childrens Books by Richard Hawkins on August 12th, 2007
Ultra Condensed SF Novels by Richard Hawkins on October 9th, 2005
Dead SciFi Writers by Richard Hawkins on July 16th, 2006
Time Out Of Joint: Philip K Dick by Richard Hawkins on September 8th, 2005
Night Is Day : Episode 4
Fraser Coull has finished the final touches to Night Is Day Episode 4.
Starring: Chris Somerville, Shian Denovan, Colin Ferguson, Steven McEwan, Tam Toye, Ashley MacFarlane (Caitlyn) and Natalie Clark (Joanne)
An angry DCI Sloan is relieved when his partner DI Mullan tracks down a connection to Mr. Philips and interrogates them outside the police station, but they aren’t going to like what they hear. Meanwhile, Jason has a lot of explaining to do when asked about his powers, and when he is forced to use his powers in public, a mysterious girl watches from a far. Will she present more danger to Jason?
I’m trying hard not to put any spoilers into the reviews for Night Is Day. Each episode is quite short, but packs a lot of punch. This episode sees more characters introduced, and some nice effects which are unexpected. The camera work and directing is, again, spot on, and you can see the crew learning with each episode. I can’t wait for it to be edited into a full length feature. The story is starting to pan out more and build up in intensity.
It’s definitely worth a watch!
You can hear a radio interview here (mp3) that Chris Somerville and Fraser Coull did for Radio Cafe, the arts programme on Radio Scotland - it’s quite funny!
Upto the minute information from nightisday.com.
Watch Episode 3 now (and 2 and 1 if you haven’t already seen them!).
Read other articles/reviews on Night Is Day.
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Night Is Day Episode One Review by Richard Hawkins on December 27th, 2006
Night Is Day : Episode One Teaser by Richard Hawkins on August 22nd, 2006
The Prestige Movie Trailer by Richard Hawkins on July 22nd, 2006
The Forgotten by Richard Hawkins on September 14th, 2005
The Truman Show by Richard Hawkins on September 8th, 2005
Three Pairs Of Tickets Up For Grabs, For 28 Weeks Later At The IMAX!
The tickets are for Thursday 14 June, 8.45pm at the IMAX.
Simply answer this question:
Robert Carlyle stars in 28 Weeks Later, which other film did he star in?
A) Blade Runner
B) Busspotting
C) Guitar Hero on the Playstation 3
D) The Cube
E) Trainspotting
Send your name, age, email address and your answer through the competition form.
All Entrants Must Be 18 Years Or Over
Competition Closes Tuesday 12th June, 12 noon
You must be able to make it to the IMAX on the thursday of the showing
No correspondence will be entered into
Tickets references will be sent via email for reclaming at the box office at IMAX, Waterloo only
Tickets Courtesy Of www.bfi.org.uk/imax
Fancy a Marvel, Stan Lee Goody Bag?
For a chance to win a Stan Lee - Marvel goody bag, answer this simple question:
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED - congratulations to the winners!
Which superhero claims to have the ability to manipulate sound?
Is it:
A) Lemuria
B) Feedback
C) Major Victory
D) Iron Enforcer
Send you answers in through the competition page with your answer, name, age and email address.
And remember to tune into the Sci Fi Channel, Mondays at 11pm, to watch Who Wants To Be A Superhero!


