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Gary Graham (Star Trek, Alien Nation) stars in the TV pilot Dead End City, TV’s homage to Sin City. His sexy co-stars include Dani Lennon, Misty Madden, and Mandy May - who is soon to be seen on Sci-Fi Channel’s Sanctuary.

You can get more at the Dead End City The Series official website, including behind the scenes video and photos, a trailer and images of the cast.

Looks like a hard-core, zombie-fest in the extreme. It actually looks like the major usage of green screen has paid off. It gives it an ‘unreal’ and almost comic book effect. Film noir?

There’s a sneak-peek of the pilot below:

Thanks to Jeff Varga (the director).

The OC meets Smallville in the explosive BBC2 teen drama Kyle XY: Declassified which is available to own on DVD this August.

This gripping American teen soap opera come sci-fi mystery show has attracted a cult following after a prime time Saturday night TV slot and is set to win the hearts and minds of more fans following its DVD release.

So who is Kyle XY? We first meet the hunky hero (Matt Dallas) wandering naked through a forest on the outskirts of Seattle. Unable to speak and without any memory – and curiously no belly button – Kyle is eventually picked up by the authorities and placed in a juvenile detention centre.

It’s there Kyle meets his future foster mother – social worker Nicole Trager (Marguerite MacIntyre - Bones, Numb3rs) who takes pity on him and invites him to live with her.

The plot thickens at home with the Tragers. Though arriving mute with little knowledge or recognition of his surroundings, Kyle quickly masters the English language, memorises the encyclopaedia effortlessly and shows astounding athletic abilities.

But while Kyle’s mental and physical strengths eclipse human capabilities, he’s baffled by family life, high school and the social norms and nuances of growing up as a teenager in modern America.

Struggling to acclimatise to his new life, Kyle embarks on a quest to discover his biological parents. But the closer he gets to unravelling clues the more questions arise; who is the mysterious man following him? Why doesn’t he have a belly button? And is he even human?

Kyle XY Declassified contains all 10 episodes of the first series along with an alternate pilot episode, an extended version of the season finale “Endgame”, and audio commentaries by the cast and crew.

Get under the skin of the most explosive teen TV show when Kyle XY: Declassified hits DVD this August.

Product Details
• Release date: 4th August 2008
• Certificate: TBC
• Running Time: 437 minutes
• Created by: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
• Starring: Matt Dallas, Marguerite MacIntyre, Bruce Thomas, April Matson, Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Bonus Features:
• Alternate Pilot Episode
• “Endgame” Extended Episode
• Kyle Declassified
• Audio Commentaries

To win one of three box sets of Kyle XY: Declassified just answer the following:

Kyle does not have which of the following:

Is it:

A) Hair
B) A Brain
C) Legs
D) Bellybutton

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To win a copy just answer the following question:

A chicken is sometimes known to:

A) Cross The Road
B) Partake In Algebra
C) Do Lap Dancing
D) Quack

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Trailer: http://www.revolvergroup.com/trailers/robotchicken_starwars2.mov

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Propeller TV Seach For The Scariest Horror Short

This is your chance to win a holiday for 2, Avid software or an XBOX 360 as part of PropellerTV’s search for the scariest horror short. Following the huge success of PropellerTV’s first ever short film festival, ShortFest, we are now launching a brand new competition to find the most horrifying short.

To get involved all you’ve got to do is send in your horror short (no longer than 10 mins) to:

Horrorfest,
Propeller TV,
C/O Screen Yorkshire,
Leeds,
LS2 7EY,
UK

before Friday 12th September, 2008, along with a PropellerTV submission form which you can download from:

http://www.propellertv.co.uk/Contributetofilmfirst.aspx.

All entries to HorrorFest will be broadcast on PropellerTV over Halloween (subject to terms and conditions).

Judging the films will be James Mullighan, Creative Director of Shooting People and makers of cult film The Zombie Diaries, Kevin Gates and Michael Bartlett.

Amongst the prizes on offer are a weeks holiday for 2 courtesy of Jet2holidays.com, Avid Media Composer software (worth £2000), an XBOX 360, XBOX 360 games, Raindance Film courses and many more.

Carole Dove, Managing Director enthused, “It’s with great excitement that we are launching our very first short horror competition. There’s some fantastic prizes on offer and to have such highly-regarded judges on board is an added bonus. ” She went on to say, “It will be great to see the entries broadcast on propeller.”

Michael Bartlett (producer of Award winning horror film, Zombie Diaries), said, “I think this is a great competition to find the scariest horror film in the UK. I’m looking forward to watching and judging the films”

For more information please contact john@propellertv.co.uk and/or check www.propellertv.co.uk

Propeller TV is broadcast from Immingham. It supports new and original programming, reaching more than 8 million homes in the UK on the Sky platform and 70 million homes across Europe.

Showcased Scifi shorts include the webseries Night Is Day

Also, since its launch in February 2006, Propeller’s programming has become widely regarded as among the most creative on the Sky platform showcasing raw, edgy and challenging television. This is also broadcasting with a purpose and the channel is committed to providing a comprehensive resource for education and professional development, creating jobs and opportunities for anyone with the desire to work in the film and television industry.

Horrorfest 2008 – Be Afraid Be Very Afraid!!

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BSFA’s 50th Anniversary

The British Science Fiction Association is celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year and they’ve got a range of events and plans going on:

• Publishing an original anthology of British SF.
• The 50th Anniversary BSFA Awards at Eastercon – including a range of panels looking back over the last 50 years of fandom at the Con, picking this year’s best novel and a “retro” award for 50 years ago.
• A new website.
• Their AGM will feature a panel of fans who were around at the founding of the BSFA.
• And they’re having a birthday party in November!

BSFA 50th ANNIVERSARY SHORT STORY COMPETITION

FOR WRITERS FROM THE UK & IRELAND

FIRST PRIZE £500

To celebrate 50 years of the BSFA’s promotion of British science fiction, they are pleased to announce their 50th Anniversary Short Story Competition.

The competition is open to any writer resident in the UK or Ireland. The maximum length of stories is 8,000 words. The stories must be science fiction, but they’re willing to take a broad definition of what that means. All entries must be accompanied by a £10 entry fee.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £500, the shortlisted runners up will receive £50, and the winning and shortlisted entries will be published in a special issue of FOCUS the BSFA’s magazine for writers. The closing date for entries is midnight on Friday 5 September 2008 – the winner will be announced at the BSFA 50th Anniversary Birthday Party, 26 November 2008.

For all the rules, and details on how to enter, visit:
www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa/website/competition.aspx

The judges will be Justina Robson, Stephen Baxter & Alistair Reynolds.

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Illumination Extravaganza: Illumini

15 artists come together to create an extraordinary exhibition of light in an underground crypt.

Curated by Jane Webb
http://www.illuminievent.co.uk
Email: illumini@hotmail.co.uk

The Crypt, St Pancras Church
Euston Rd / Duke’s Rd, London, NW1 2BA (nearest tube Euston Station)

4th September – 17th September
Open daily 11am- 7pm Free Admission

Opening Night Thursday 4th September, 6pm – 9pm.
Free Admission.
All welcome.

ARTISTS : Mercedes Altuna, Madi Boyd, David Chalkley, Vincenzo Di Maria, Lewis Hayward, Caroline Lambard, Jayne Lloyd, Liz murfitt, Adrian Navarro, Silviu Pascalin, Suzan Swale, Matthew Swift, Andrea Tyrimos, Jane Webb and Deon Winter.

Illumini is supported by Mathmos, who will be displaying a range of their latest products also supported by Surelight Glowsafe and the Glass bar

An electrifying new exhibition with a difference, starting with a opening night on the 4th Sept, which is complimented with a full evening of free entertainment. Light shows, circus acts and performance artists, working with illumination taking place through out the crypt. This is no PV night, this is an evening where everybody is welcome, Illumini will not just showcase art it will entertain, introducing all communities that may not normally visit the arts to a different approach.

Illumini brings together a variety of artists, all sharing a passion for the subject of light. Set in the famous St Pancras crypt, these impressive pieces of artwork come to life in this desolate and unsettling environment. Come along to experience the illuminatory and dazzling effect this diverse collection of artwork has on the crypt’s dark environment.

Travel down abandoned corridors and venture into secret recesses to explore a wide variety of artwork. The pieces range from photographs and paintings depicting light, to sculptural works that literally glow; at once transforming the crypt’s murky and shadowy atmosphere like never before.

Jane says a few words:

I am a London based mixed media artist that primarily works in glass and lighting for my Commissioned work. For my mixed media installation and sculptural work, recycled computer and electronic components are assimilated. The simplicity and complexity of circuit board patterns are a strong influence along with imagery of robotics.

I graduated in Glass & Fine Art Post Grad Certificate, at Central St Martins in 2006 and had a piece on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. I have also been sort listed for the ‘Inspire by Awards’ & ‘Pride in the House’ and the ‘Future Design Awards’ and a guest artist at the London Sci- fi film festival . My most recent project im organising and exhibiting in, called Illumini, will be an illumination extravaganza which will be held in a grade 1 listed crypt in London with 15 artists in September 08

At present my experimental sculptures and installations are influenced by technological advancements in the area of prosthetics and cybernetics. For example, the rapid human advancement in cybernetic technology, at the Southampton University “The Southampton Hand”.

Even though my art is perceived as science fiction, it is however heavily influenced by everyday science fact! After all Science fiction plays a important roll in the science of the future.
We use tools such as computers and internet which extends our visual memory and other powers beyond what our human bodies are capable of.

Initially technology was created as a time saving device and memory aids. However, we now appear to be co-dependent on them.

Is technology acting like a virus destroying our humanity and turning us into cybernetic humanoids!
Our perceptions are that technology is speed, efficiency and enhancement. The mobile phone is like a portable life support machine, the average person already looking like a cyborg with a blue tooth attachment to their ear, a digital watch strapped to their wrist and plugged into an Ipod.

It does make you wonder how close we are to becoming cyborgs already!

Golden Globe winner Kiefer Sutherland (24, Stand By Me), Rufus Sewell (The Illusionist, A Knight’s Tale), William Hurt (The Incredible Hulk, A History of Violence) and Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (Little Children, A Beautiful Mind) star in the visually stunning, modern noir sci-fi classic Dark City. This is the eagerly awaited never-before-seen director’s cut of the film which is being released by Entertainment In Video on retail DVD and Blu-Ray with a host of all-new extras on 4th August.

Directed, written and produced by acclaimed sci-fi director Alex Proyas (I, Robot), Dark City finds John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) waking up naked and alone in a strange hotel room, suffering from what appears to be amnesia.

He is being hunted by police inspector Frank Bumstead (William Hurt) for a series of brutal murders that he knows nothing about; is being tailed by a mysterious doctor (Keifer Sutherland) and is being sought by a woman called Emma (Jennifer Conelly) who claims to be his wife but of whom he has no recollection.

On the run from Bumstead, Murdoch sets out to discover his past and with it the mysteries of the city; a place shrouded in perpetual darkness with no known ways to leave and whose inhabitants fall comatose at midnight.

Bumstead eventually catches up with Murdoch, starts to re-think who might be responsible for the murders and decides to team-up with him so that the two of them can try and unravel the mysteries of Dark City together. It’s while trying to re-discover Murdoch’s past life that the pair stumble across a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of powerful beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants.

Enlisting the help of the mysterious Dr. Daniel Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland), the three are forced to find a way to stop The Strangers before the city and Murdoch are both destroyed…

Dark City has a 15 certificate and a running time of approximately 100 minutes.

Retail Details:
DVD
Cat Number: EDV9596
Price: £10.21

Blu-Ray:
Cat Number: EBR5097
Prince: £12.25

Retail Bonus Features:
• Audio commentary with film critic Roger Ebert
• Audio commentary with director Alex Proyas
• Audio commentary with writers David Goyer and Lem Dobbs
• Introduction by Alex Proyas
• Memories of Shell Beach (documentary)
• Architecture of Dreams (documentary)
• Production Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer

Competition:
Ok, so now we’ve got your attention, to get your hands on a copy, just answer the following question:

In Dark City, John Murdoch is being sought after by whom?

Is it:

A) Lenny Kravitz
B) Slash
C) A woman called Kate
D) A woman called Emma

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TM and © MMVIII New Line Productions, Inc. TM and © MMVIII New Line Home Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Prizes courtesy of Entertainment in Video

Oxford University Press is based in…

Is it:

A) Cloud Nine
B) Fleet
C) Oxford
D) Emmerdale-Upon-Thames

Send you answers in through the competition page with your answer, name, age and email address.

They will both be reviewed in the near future, but until then, check out their official site at http://whichsideareyouon.co.uk

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What Actually Happened After The Attack Of The Zombies? (pick any genre film).

Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the ‘50s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbour…. and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Funny, frightening and just a little bit twisted, the multi award winning Fido is now released on DVD by Entertainment In Video, to rent on 9th June and to buy on 23rd June.

A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, Fido boasts a great ensemble cast including Carrie-Anne Moss (Disturbia, The Matrix trilogy), legendary stand up Billy Connolly (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events), Dylan Baker (Spider-Man 3) and Tim Blake Nelson (Meet the Fockers).

Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead.

In the ensuing revolution, the corporation ZomCon was created and succeeded in defeating the legions of undead. They domesticated them, making them into industrial workers and servants.

ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control…but do they? At least one person doesn’t think so.

ZomCon’s head of security has moved in across the street from eleven-year-old Timmy Robinson (K’Sun Ray), who is already a little suspicious of this newly created world.

Timmy’s mother (Moss) however refuses to be the only housewife on the block who doesn’t have a zombie as a servant. When she brings a six-foot tall model home, Timmy discovers in him a new best friend whom he immediately names Fido (Connolly).

Even though Dad (Baker) has a bad case of zombie-phobia - he has never recovered from having killed his own zombie father - Timmy is determined to keep Fido, even if he does have a nasty habit of eating the neighbours.

Sometimes, it takes a dead man to teach us all what it means to be alive….

Fido has a 15 certificate (TBC) and a running time of approximately 91 minutes.

Rental Disc:
Cat Number: EDR4169
Price: £35.00

Retail Disc:
Cat Number: EDV9580
Price: £10.21

Retail bonus features:
• Blooper reel
• Deleted scenes

So to get your hands on a copy of the absolutely hilarious FIDO, just answer this simple question:

The main character in FIDO is:

A) A dog called Fido
B) A car called Fido
C) A transformer called Fido
D) A zombie called Fido

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Black Static’s Dark Place
(Number 3 Out Feb 2007).

Matthew Holness AKA Gareth Marenghi of the eponymous cult TV show has a story in Black Static 3, which has just gone to the printer and will be out, early, in February.

The Toad and I” by Matthew Holness. The author is a “A real life TV star, most famous for his Gareth Marenghi character (absolutely brilliant — hope you’ve seen it)” and he won the 2001 Perrier Comedy Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s top prize.

Also two debut stories, The Morning After, is Carole Johnstone’s first author credit anywhere. Carole is a Scot now living in Essex.

Seth Skorkowsky’s The Mist of Lichthafen is his first story sale but he’s since sold other stories and they saw the light of publication before there was space for him in BS 3.

16th in Interzone’s all time list of fiction contributors (13 stories) is Alexander Glass and here he is in BS 3 with The Pit. He’s back with a story about depression, and it’s good. Stylistically different from his earlier stories let’s hope it’s the first of many.

Ian Faulkner was first published in Crimewave and has another story coming up in CW 10. The Difference Between is Ian R. Faulkner’s first for any of TTA’s Horror, SF and fantasy genre publications.

The Sentinels by rising star Tony Richards.

Another rising star is Will McIntosh who closes the BS 3 fiction list with The Fantasy Jumper. Will is no stranger to Interzone, he appeared in IZ 200 with Soft Apocalypse and has featured twice more since that issue.

And, the editor says, all seven story titles begin with the definite article and that’s enough to make BS 3 a themed issue, according to him.

David Gentry is again responsible for the art.

NOTE Interzone and Crimewave are now available as downloads for all types of E reader devices from Fictionwise. Keep an eye out for Black Static on the same link.

Well, now you can, courtesy of Hovpod Surrey. They specialise in the luxury personal leisure hovercraft.

The Hovpod is an experience you won’t ever forget. You can use it to raise your profile and attendance at a promotional or corporate event (which we all know can be boring). It’s a fun, safe and exhilirating ride which uses a mechanism of a cushion of air (AVC - Air Cushion Vehicle) which enables it to navigate almost all surfaces.

For example, it can easily rocket over grass, gravel, tarmac, ice, water, snow, sand and mud. Land/Water transition is seamlessly smooth because, of course, the Hovpod is actually always sitting on a cushion of fresh air, floating 9 inches above whatever surface is below.

Today it is often in environmentally sensitive areas that the hovercraft shines the most. It won’t damage the ground. There’s no wheels to churn up the ground and no propellors to injure any marine creatures. A good example on their site is of the Hovpod being driven over eggs; they are untouched.

Imagine the look on student’s faces when the college or school hires one for educational purposes. They certainly never had anything like that when I went!

The hovpod will not damage the ground

And the reason is simple: If you look underneath the hovercraft skirt there’s nothing but fresh air. There are no wheels to churn up the ground, and no propellors to injure any marine creatures.

Darren, the coordinator, told us, “We were invited to a black tie dinner at a local rugby club. We gave experience rides from 6:30pm to 11:30pm. We tried to leave, but kept getting getting asked to stay. The organisers even turned on the floodlights for us to fly over their rugby pitches. And what was very impressive was women in their ballgowns wanting to experience the thrill in their twos!”

The Hovpod is a fantastic addition to any event, very safe, and certainly raises the profile. Hovpod Surrey also supplies owner support and hovpod maintenance.

It isn’t a Landspeeder exactly, but it’s probably the closest you’d get to with our current technology.

Landspeed digital 3D image used with kind permission of PerspectX - see more of these 3D images, which are available as 3D environment packages.

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Southland Tales

From Richard Kelly, creator of (one of my favourite films) Donnie Darko.

“HAVE A NICE APOCALYPSE!” or “THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS, NOT WITH A WHIMPER BUT WITH A BANG!”

I watched the checkdisk, my brain went to mush. And I could quite easily imagine that is where the above quotes come from, the mushing and/exploding of the brain. As Richard Kelly apparently said, “You need to watch it twice to unlock its mysteries”. Yeah, no brainer really, it’s like a weird comic with so many strands and freaky things all at once it makes me think maybe he made it for his own amusement - a lets see how many ideas and effects and storylines and actors and other such things we can have in a large viewing timeframe-, and forgot there were people who were looking forward to it, to having to pay to watch it, to at least get some semblence of a cohesive story from watching it.

I’ll be putting myself through 2 hrs 25 minutes in the next day or so, and hopefully will be able to work out what the heck was going on.

By the way, the above doesn’t mean I dislike it, it’s just a lot for the five senses to take in. I think two of mine shutdown after about an hour and a half, so, once they’re bolstered up and recovered, I’ll re examine the film.

Until then, here’s some info to whet your appetite…

DEBUTS ON DVD 31 MARCH 2008

Universal Pictures (UK) will release Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales to own and rent on DVD 31 March 2008. The highly anticipated follow up feature to cult favourite Donnie Darko stars Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Geller, Justin Timberlake, Mandy Moore and Miranda Richardson.

Writer and director Richard Kelly’s debut feature film Donnie Darko grew from cult status into a phenomenal smash hit when released on DVD. And DVD is the perfect way to experience his new film, as its multi-layered story demands repeat viewings and the crystal clear picture and awesome sound quality will further heighten the impact of the outstanding special effects and excellent soundtrack that includes music specially composed for the film by Moby. The film will be accompanied by the insightful documentary that runs for over 30 minutes, USIdent TV – Survielling the Southland (The Making of Southland Tales).

Similar to Kelly’s groundbreaking, unconventional debut feature, Southland Tales is a multilayered vision which defies categorisation. A visceral experience, with stunning production values, special effects and a heavy nod to pop culture, the film is part dark comedy, part sci-fi, part thriller, part fairy tale, and even part musical and it is the singular vision of one man.

Los Angeles, 2008: The city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Southland Tales is an epic story narrated by Iraq veteran Private Pilot Abilene (Justin Timberlake) and is set over the course of three days centered in Los Angeles that culminate in an apocalyptic 4th July climax. Together with Abilene (Timberlake), the large ensemble cast of characters includes Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action star stricken with amnesia, Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Richard Kelly comments, “What is it all about in the end? I think it’s about where our country is going, our current dilemma when you’re talking about alternative fuel, terrorism, our civil liberties being taken away from us, and the potential effects of environmental degradation on human behaviour, neurological responses, global warming. You know, there’s a lot going on here.”

Product Information
Release Date: 31 March 2008
Release Type: Retail and Rental DVD
Copyright: Film © 2006 MHF Zweite Academy Film GMBH & Co. KG. All Rights Reserved. Artwork and Packaging Design © 2008 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Certificate: 15
Genre: Drama / Sci-fi
Price: £19.99 RRP
Extras: USIdent TV – Survielling the Southland (The Making of Southland Tales)
Running Time: 145 mins approx
Audio: English 5.1
Website: http://www.southlandtales.com

Q) Molly asks, I have a 1950’s trash can I want to sell, but not sure what it is please tell me if you know..

It is a Ballonoff home products made in Ohio it has the names in caracters of Me2, Zig 6, Gaz and it is totally a sci-fi thing, it has planets on the inside and characters and walking machines on the outside all around the can.

Do you know what this can is?

A) We actually did a google to see if we could find the answer, but even the names of the characters don’t mean anything to us! Aggh.

Do you know the answer? If you have an idea, please post a comment.

Grant Hicks is a painter with a slight difference, he paints Cosmic Ceilings, scenes from outer space onto mainly bedroom ceilings.

Using specialist glow paint (which is actually invisible during the day) he creates stars, shooting stars, blackholes and other such images. These ceilings can only be seen in the dark. They look truly amazing as they have a 3D effect, and you feel as though you are actually looking up to the stars.

He can also do themed ceilings such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who and fantasy scenes (images of which you can see below).

He also trains people to do this for a living as self-employed ‘Startists’.

Images Of Ceilings Painted And Websites:

Cosmic Ceilings: Glowing Images Examples

Our favourite is the universe scene, as it will never go out of date; well, the universe is pretty old, and still funky.

Cosmic Ceilings: http://www.cosmic-ceiling.co.uk
Glow Painting Training Site: http://www.cosmictraining.com

SW: TESBOM is an action/arcade game based around a series of fun and challenging mini-games where the player participates in the key events from the Episode V movie.

Take control of either Luke Skywalker or various Star Wars vehicles such as Snow Speeders or even the Millennium Falcon itself.

Travel through the various worlds of the Star Wars universe; fly through asteroid fields, train with Yoda, or even fight the mighty Imperial Forces on foot.

Key Features:

· Re-enact key scenes from the Empire Strikes Back!
· Jedi Combat/Training Mode featuring Yoda and Luke Skywalker
· Millennium Falcon game mode – Escape from the Star Destroyer through the asteroid field
· Train your force abilities with mini-games featuring the famous scenes with Yoda and Luke in the swamps of Degobah
· Easy control mechanism using contextual action points

Actual Screenshots And Purchase Info:

The Empire Strikes Back: Star Wars: Mobile Phone Game

To get Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back on your mobile simply text Empire to 88188. The game costs £4.50 which is a one off charge.

Status: Open

Other information: The seller wants this piece of artwork to go to a good home, and doesn’t particularly want to put it on Ebay, as the audience isn’t necessarily targetted. Will accept any reasonable offer and answer questions regarding the product, shipping costs etc.

We reckon this would go in any front room, gaming room or even as an out of the ordinary garden Gnome. As this is the first post of this kind, we will be sorting out a more automated way of passing seller information onto enquirers.

So if you have any second hand books, collectables or anything remotely scifi/horror/fantasy to send to a good home, then please let us know through the contact form.

Disclaimer: Once Scifi UK Review passes enquiries on to the seller, we will not be involved in any communication or potential transactions arising from this post. We won’t take a ‘cut’ and will leave the communication between enquirer and seller, once initial contact has been made.

Photo of the Bioshock Statue:

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Interzone : Now Available From Fictionwise.

Creative writing is not immune to information technology. The literary equivalent to music’s Ipod is the ebook reader and there are many portable devices into readers can download an electronic version of a novel or magazine. Alternatives to specific ebooks are PDAs, laptops and some mobile phones.

Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com/) is a US website which formats books and magazines for web distribution to e book readers such as the ‘Amazon Kindle’ or ‘Sony Reader’. They take a file from the publisher and convert it to the multitude of formats needed to ensure all E book readers and many ‘mobile’ devices can display the text.

Fictionwise sell the files through their website though publishers can also do it themselves via their own, or retailer, sites.

‘MultiFormat’ ebooks are not encrypted and paying for one type of download format allows free access to other formats of that ebook. So customers who update to a new e reader or mobile device do not lose access to their library.

TTA Press’s (http://ttapress.com/) short fiction publications are Interzone, Black Static and Crimewave. The first two are magazines with original short fiction and non-fiction articles and the latter is a regular collection of short crime fiction. Crimewave 9 Transgressions has been on sale at Fictionwise since October 2007 and now Interzone magazine is available as an ebook.

Readers can purchase the magazine in single issues or as a one-year subscription here The e publication of the magazine began with the three most recent issues of Interzone: 211, 212, & 213. Future issues will appear alongside the publication of the print edition. At this time, there are no plans to offer any issues before IZ 211.

At present the e edition is not available direct from the TTA or T3A site.

If you’re not familiar with Interzone (shame on you!) then read past reviews and articles on Interzone.

Genre writers are forever creating their own universes, which sometimes sit side by side. Sometimes, the key to a successful story is how the objects (people, places etc) interact with each other, and ultimately are moved from one place to another.

This post is really self indulgence to some extent - because this is what I do for a living. As well as creating universes and even linked universes (think parallel universes), there comes a time when an infrastructure has to be migrated from an earlier version (say, v5 or v6) to a new platform (XIR2 or XI3.0).

This can pose problems; from planning, through execution, to testing and finally to go live.

You need to be confident that the migration has gone correctly, that you’ve taken everything you need across (reports, users, universes), and that the new security model has been adopted correctly.

Migration is a good time to assess what your legacy systems look like. Are all universes needed, are all reports needed? What preperations and steps need to be taken.

If this is something you’re interested in talking about, then feel free to contact me on the feedback form, making sure you mention Business Objects Migration.

Q) Walter asks, I once saw a sci-fi flick when I was young. It was in the early 70’s. I had to do with scientist trying to creat a view screen into the future.

There were also some robots that helped them. They looked pretty cool with tubes and things. There were also mutants above ground.

At the end the mutants made it below ground and the scientist realized that their view screen was really a time portal into a new geneation.They escaped through the screen into the future.

What was the name of this movie? Help.

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The Future Of Cinema And Computer Gaming?

What Would You Do If You Accidently Found Someone Crying Out For Help On A Hidden Website?

Chris Purnell, is writer/director of new Alternate Reality Game entitled Gun Shots By Computer - Part 1. The films where produced in Scotland and feature two rising stars of the Scottish acting world, Shian Denovan (Night Is Day) and Claire Dicarlo.

He says this about GSBC1:

Cinema goers are a dying breed and due to spiraling cost, cinemas will soon be a thing of the past. I believe there has to be a future to film, and I think the Internet will play a major role in that. Already people download movies from the Internet instead of going to the cinema; people would rather see a film for free. I understand that, as I am one of those people. So to reach out to those people you have to make the whole experience of watching a film more interesting for them. You have to give them a reason not to just download it. I believe we have created the format to do that.

Our web based films are set in an Orwellian world in the year 2032 which parallels our own
present. The story begins behind the website, HMV, where one girl gives a direct address to the camera done through the style of video blogs.

The story is that Sarah’s friends and family see her as a crazy paranoid person. But is she? After Sarah stops taking her pills she becomes convinced that she is living in an Orwellian nightmare. She believes her pills to be a form of government control. But is this all in Sarah’s head? Is she really just paranoid and the pills are there only to keep her chemical imbalance from becoming worse? Sarah begins to keep a video diary to warn people in other countries of the impending doom that will befall them.

The story branches from Sarah’s website to other websites which are revealed to drive the plot forward. These sites are: www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com, www.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com and www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org This allows viewers to actively participate in the story. (I’ve took the urls out, as it would be too easy to jump the gun, and ruin the creative flow. - Rich)

From the moment you enter Sarah’s site you are confronted by a government warning that will hopefully spark viewers intrigue. The page you then see used to divert attention away from what she is doing. When clicked on, the next page to open will establish that we are in a hidden website and what you are about to see is very secret. When the user enters to the next page the first film will begin to let the viewer know where they are and what they are about to see.

The site was launched 72 hours ago and has already received 4500 hits. We believe this to show that the format works and it is causing a stir.

This format will let people interact with the film and instead of just being a viewer; they will feel like an active participant. Making them jump through all these hoops makes a game of the film, and when they see the final film it will somehow feel more rewarding.