Battlestar Rhapsody

Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles

ALL NEW! Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles

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Writer’s Dens

I’ve always loved the Librarian’s Desks flickr group. Here’s a set of photos titled "Where I Write”, photos of SF & Fantasy authors in their writing environments.

Where I Write will be featured as eight pages in the 2009 Worldcon program guide. A much larger collection is being compiled into a book featuring Neil Gaiman, Lois McMaster Bujold, and many others along with interviews about their spaces.

Sign me up. This is a book I’ll be ordering as soon as its available.

Via Boing Boing

Star Wars retold by someone who hasn't seen it

from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Matt Smith is the new Dr. John Smith

Read the BBC Press Release. And, yes, I've actually seen a previous performance of his, but at first did not recognize the name.

Happy 45th Anniversary Doctor Who!

Amazing Star Wars photos

The photographer is Cedric Delsaux and you can find his work at http://www.cedricdelsaux.com/. (Click on "enter" then "Series" for the rest of the Star Wars-themes photos.)

Windows Matrix

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Robots Attack!

The return of free TOR ebooks

Free Ebooks from World Fantasy Award Finalists

Last week we announced the return of free ebooks from Tor.com. We’re kicking things off this week with backlist titles from two of the authors who are finalists for this year’s World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. To download these and upcoming freebies, all you have to do is register at Tor.com.

Will Shetterly and Emma Bull are the first married couple to each simultaneously have a novel among the finalists for the World Fantasy Award—Emma’s Territory and Will’s The Gospel of the Knife. In commemoration of this, we’re offering registered Tor.com users free e-book editions of a pair of classics from the Bull and Shetterly backlists—Emma’s War for the Oaks and Will’s Dogland. Check them out here!

Each title in our giveaway program will be available for A Limited Time Only, so don’t delay. The books will be offered in a variety of formats, with no DRM. After this month’s pair of books, we’ll be putting up a new title every month, so make sure you register—and tell your friends about the great books (and blogs, and art, and conversation) that are free at Tor.com every day.

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Del Rey & Lucasbooks Announce Extension of Star Wars Pub Contract & New Multi-Book Series

From: Star Wars Books from Del Rey 
[mailto:Starwars@info.randomhouse.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:10 PM
To: msauers@travelinlibrarian.info
Subject: Del Rey & Lucasbooks Announce Extension of Star Wars 
Pub Contract & New Multi-Book Series

DEL REY AND LUCASBOOKS ANNOUNCE EXTENSION OF STAR WARS(TM) 
PUBLISHING CONTRACT AND NEW MULTI-BOOK SERIES


NEW YORK, NY - September 15, 2008 - Maintaining a relationship 
that began more than 30 years ago, LucasBooks and Del Rey are 
slated to publish another 45 STAR WARS titles from 2009 through 
the end of 2013. The titles will include 35 novels and 10 
nonfiction books.

Since 1976, when Judy-Lynn del Rey took a chance on an unknown 
movie called STAR WARS and published the tie-in novel to 
unprecedented bestsellerdom, Del Rey Books has published a wide 
range of STAR WARS titles, including movie and video game 
tie-in novels; original series and stand-alone novels; as well 
as character guides and non-fiction film books. Every hardcover 
STAR WARS novel from Del Rey/LucasBooks has been an instant New 
York Times bestseller, and 2008 saw STAR WARS in the #1 spot 
twice on the New York Times list with Revelation, the eighth 
book in the recent STAR WARS: Legacy of the Force series, and 
with STAR WARS: The Force Unleashed, the tie-in to the upcoming 
video game from LucasArts. In 2007 alone, the total number of 
STAR WARS books printed under the Del Rey/LucasBooks imprint 
was over 1.5 million copies.

"Our relationship with Lucasfilm is treasured," said Gina 
Centrello, President and Publisher of the Random House 
Publishing Group. "We are extremely proud of our STAR WARS 
publishing program, which is the cornerstone of the Del Rey 
list." Howard Roffman, President of Lucas Licensing, said "The 
legacy of STAR WARS publishing began with Del Rey. For more 
than 30 years they have been a superb partner with an 
unflinching commitment to keep STAR WARS fans informed, 
entertained and enthralled."

Among the titles launching in 2009 are the first three in a 
new STAR WARS multi-book, multi-author story arc following 
directly in the footsteps of the Legacy of the Force series. 
The nine-book, three-author series, STAR WARS: Fate of the 
Jedi, will break new ground by being the first multi-book STAR 
WARS series to be published all in hardcover. The series, 
which will be published over the space of three years, will 
launch in April 2009 with Outcast, by Aaron Allston; the other 
two authors planning and penning the nine novels will be 
Christie Golden and Troy Denning. Also to come is The Making of 
The Empire Strikes Back, to be released in 2010 in conjunction 
with the 30th anniversary of that film, along with a 
continuation of the hugely successful series of STAR WARS 
Essential Guides.

ABOUT DEL REY BOOKS:
Del Rey Books (www.delreybooks.com) was founded in 1977 as an
imprint of Ballantine Books, a division of the Random House 
Publishing Group, under the guidance of the renowned Judy-Lynn 
del Rey and her husband, Lester del Rey. Del Rey publishes the 
best of modern fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history. 
In 2004 it expanded by launching Del Rey Manga, which has grown 
to be a major force in the U.S. graphic-novel field.

ABOUT LUCASBOOKS:
Lucasfilm, STAR WARS(TM) and related properties are trademarks 
and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of 
Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. TM & (c) Lucasfilm Ltd. 
All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are 
properties of their respective owners.

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Top 10 Reasons to Watch Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica

What if Saul Bass had designed the credits for Star Wars?

CC-licensed Firefly FanFic by serious SciFi Author

Established and popular science fiction author Steven Brust has written My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel and released it under CreativeCommons on his Web site. (.doc & .pdf) I've also uploaded the PDF version to my Scribd account. I've not started reading it yet but I've got it loaded on my Sony Reader so I'll be getting to it soon.

William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview

You can find the complete interview on RollingStone.com. Here's an excerpt.

What are the major challenges we face?

Let's go for global warming, peak oil and ubiquitous computing.

Ubiquitous computing?

Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible. The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn't cyberspace is going to be unimaginable. When I wrote Neuromancer in 1984, cyberspace already existed for some people, but they didn't spend all their time there. So cyberspace was there, and we were here. Now cyberspace is here for a lot of us, and there has become any state of relative nonconnectivity. There is where they don't have Wi-Fi.

In a world of superubiquitous computing, you're not gonna know when you're on or when you're off. You're always going to be on, in some sort of blended-reality state. You only think about it when something goes wrong and it goes off. And then it's a drag.

More human than human. That's our motto.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

I'm not sure if I should be happy or upset over yet another version of this film.

Steampunk Star Trek

Which Serenity character are you?

My results:
I am Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)

Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 70% Wash (Ship Pilot) 60% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 60% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 50% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 50% Inara Serra (Companion) 45% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 40% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 30% River (Stowaway) 30% A Reaver (Cannibal) 10% Alliance 5%

Honest and a defender of the innocent. You sometimes make mistakes in judgment but you are generally good and would protect your crew from harm.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz...

Steampunk Star Wars

From the blog Eric's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea, what if Star Wars had been done in the Steampunk SF Sub-genre? The descriptions are wonderfully written, but the artwork are totally spectacular.