Pixel Scroll 2/28/18 Crying “Pixels And Scrolls Alive, Alive, Oh!”

(1) AIRTIME TRAVEL. Got to love this. Galactic Journey, the blog that walks day-by-day through sff history from 55 years ago, has founded its own online radio station — KGJ, Radio Galactic Journey, “playing all the current hits: pop, rock, soul, folk, jazz, country — it’s the tops, pops…” Dave Brubeck was performing a hot jazz number when I checked in.

(2) THE TELLING. From The Hollywood Reporter: “Ursula K. Le Guin’s Sci-Fi Novel ‘The Telling’ Getting Big-Screen Adaptation”.

Producers had been working with the late author on the project before she passed away in January.

The Telling, the acclaimed sci-fi novel from influential American author Ursula K. Le Guin — who died in January — is being adapted for the big screen.

Bayview Films, a division of Bayview Labs, announced the project Wednesday, with Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Discovery) set to star. The film will be written and directed by Leena Pendharkar (20 Weeks, Raspberry Magic).

The Telling follows Sutty Dass (Sharma), who travels from war-torn earth to the planet Aka, which has suppressed its rich culture in the march to technological advancement….

(3) YOU’RE THE TOP. The Guardian’s Gareth L. Powell has fun justifying his picks for the “Top 10 spaceships in fiction”. Aldiss, Leckie, and Banks are on the list.

  1. From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
    In the aftermath of the US civil war, members of the Baltimore Gun Club construct a cannon capable of launching three men to the moon. Published in 1865, this novel was one of the first to take a serious stab at describing a space vessel and its means of propulsion (earlier attempts involving balloons and geese notwithstanding). Although Verne got a few of his calculations wrong (the length of the cannon’s barrel would have to have been much longer), most of what he describes seems remarkably prescient when you consider it was written a century before the first real moon landings.

(4) KGB. Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Kelly Robson and Chandler Klang Smith on Wednesday, March 21, 7 p.m. at the KGB Bar.

Kelly Robson

Kelly Robson is the author of Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach. Last year, she was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her novella Waters of Versailles won the 2016 Aurora Award and was a finalist for both the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She has also been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award and the Sunburst Award. Her fiction appears at Tor.com, Uncanny, Asimov’s, and Clarkesworld, and she is is a regular contributor to Clarkesworld’s Another Word column. Kelly lives in Toronto with her wife, SF writer A.M. Dellamonica.

Chandler Klang Smith

Chandler Klang Smith is the author, most recently, of The Sky Is Yours, which was published by Hogarth/Crown in January 2018. A graduate of the creative writing MFA program at Columbia University, she is currently serving as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards for the second year in a row. She teaches and tutors in New York City.

(5) CASE STUDY. The Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Kickstarter-funded game and miniatures expected out in 2013 won’t be coming late or at all. Kevin Siembieda, President of Palladium Books® wrote a long explanation and apology. Some of the rewards will still be made available to backers willing to pay the cost of shipping.

When the Robotech® RPG Tactics (RRT) Kickstarter funded in May 2013, we cheered, hugged and actually danced down the halls at the Palladium office. Not just because of the amount of money raised thanks to your pledges, but because it meant the realization of our dreams for Robotech®. For Palladium Books, it signified bringing Robotech fans – ourselves among them – something new and exciting to the beloved Robotech® universe.

So it is with sadness and tremendous heartbreak that I announce that, despite our best efforts, we are unable to produce the Robotech® RPG Tactics Wave Two rewards. Moreover, after proudly carrying the legacy of Robotech® in the role-playing games medium for 30 years, our license has expired and is not being renewed.

….The Kickstarter money was gone with Wave One, but Palladium never gave up on Robotech® RPG Tactics. We explored every available option in order to secure more funding or bring in business partners and investors. We solicited multiple quotes and explored different manufacturing options and new production technologies for these potential partners. As you know, there was a period when we felt very confident Wave Two would see production and release. Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we came up short. But we were so committed, even that did not stop us. We reached out to others. Even Harmony Gold and Palladium’s licensing agent tried to help us put deals together with third parties. We made a Herculean effort and did everything we could, right through this past Christmas and into the New Year, but without success.

The cost to produce Wave Two, estimated at $300,000-$400,000 for tooling and manufacturing, plus $65,000 to import to the USA, plus $120,000-$160,000 to ship rewards to the backers, was more than any potential investor was willing to risk.

Whenever anyone pledges support to a Kickstarter project, you never know if it will be successful or not. It is a gamble. This is true of any business venture. We are sincerely sorry this one fell short. We gave it our all, but that’s the rub about life and business, sometimes your all is not good enough. Sometimes you miss the mark despite your best efforts, good intentions, and the money you pour into it. I’m sorry that was the case with RRT.

[H/t Ansible Links.]

(6) SUPERFICIAL SCIENCE TALES. Nicholas Whyte could not resist the temptation to try and quantify “Who are the leading Hispanic writers of science fiction?” Would you like to guess who came in last?

Anyway, here are the results, ranked (as is my usual habit) by the geometrical average of the number of owners of the top book by that author on both systems. In most cases the same book was top on both systems for each author. In a few cases lower down the table, different books topped the author’s list on Goodreads and LibraryThing, so I took the one with the highest geometrical average of the number of owners.

In one case, an author’s top book on Goodreads scores decently enough in the bottom quarter of the Goodreads table; but not a single LibraryThing user appears to have acquired any of his books. So he is listed at the very end….

(7) GENERAL ROMANTICS. Doctor Strangemind’s Kim Huett looks back at “A.E. Van Vogt – In the Beginning” – it wasn’t what he expected.

Not every origin story needs to be revealed.

Recently I responded to an article about pseudonyms written many years ago by Anthony Boucher. In it I mentioned that A.E. Van Vogt as an example of an author didn’t care to be associated with a certain genre. I made this claim because I had a memory of reading a piece by him in which he admitted to writing for true adventure style pulps but giving no details.

Since then an old friend of mine, Denny Lien, who knows more about such matters than I ever will, pointed me to a page on the van Vogt website that actually reprints one of these stories and gives some background on how it was rediscovered. So it turns out I was wrong about him writing for the true adventure pulps. What he actually wrote apparently were true confession type stories which is about as far from his later science fiction in theme and style as you could get….

(8) A REVIEWER’S GUIDE TO ESCAPE: Jason wraps up another month at Featured Futures with a shiny new “Summation: February 2018”:

Demonstrating my usual quick wit, some time after posting the last “Summation of Online Fiction” which happily proclaimed my new coverage of print zines, I realized the title no longer applied. I could change it to “Summation of Short Fiction” but shorter’s better and I hopefully won’t ever have to change the one-word title again.

With that fixed, it’s the “February” subtitle that’s the problem this time. I’ve ironically read more March stories than February in February (47 vs. 38/171Kwds, not to mention the four late-January stories that were covered in the first “Weekly Webzine Wrap-Up” of
February). I’ll hang on to the March stories until that “Summation,” so this post covers everything from January 27-February 25. This was a below-average month in the quantity of noted stories but they’re of especially high quality.

(9) FABRAY OBIT. Nanette Fabray (1920-2018): US actress, died February 22, aged 97. Genre appearances included Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966), The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (one episode, 1967), The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979), The Munsters Today (one episode, 1989).

(10) TODAY’S BIRTHDAY

  • Born February 28, 1948 – Bernadette Peters.  She’s had other genre roles, but John King Tarpinian sent the item because of her appearance in the 1980’s TV adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles.

(11) COMICS SECTION.

  • Saved, or merely fate delayed? John King Tarpinian says that’s the question in Close to Home.
  • And The Flying McCoys have fun with a bumper sticker trope.

(12) ORANGE MIKE. Wisconsin fan “Orange Mike” Lowrey has started a GoFundMe to help defray the costs of his attending a march in Memphis in tribute to the late Martin Luther King: “Union Marcher to Honor Dr. ML King”.

When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in 1968, he was there in support of my Union, AFSCME, supporting the workers of AFSCME Local 1733 in their famous “I AM A MAN” demonstrations. This year, AFSCME members from all over the nation will gather in Memphis to honor his sacrifice and his example. I’m a native West Tennessean. , now president of a mostly-black AFSCME local union (Wisconsin State Employees Local 91); I am particularly eager to pay this tribute. The problem is that lost days’ wages, travel to and from Memphis (I live in Milwaukee), and housing, will cost me a lot of money I can ill afford. Make no mistake: I WILL GO anyway; but if folks can ease the fiscal pain, I would appreciate it.

The march is in April; I’ve got to make arrangements much sooner than that. And if you see coverage of the march, and the proud banner of Wisconsin State Employees Local 91, AFSCME, shows on the screen, you can have the warm feeling of knowing you helped.

He has raised $20 of his $940 goal so far.

(13) HORROR IN THE DEEP. Dread Central has video — “Someone Put a Statue of Jason Voorhees in a Minnesota Lake For Divers to Stumble Across”.

Remember the end of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives where Megan and Tommy manage to trap Jason in the bottom of Crystal Lake? Well, it seems that some random person has recreated this scene by planting a Jason statue, complete with mask and machete, 120 feet deep in a Minnesotan lake that is supposedly very popular with divers! Having been down in the water, the statue has developed a worn, algae-covered appearance that almost makes it seem all the more lifelike. My only complaint is that it looks very rigid, like it’s clearly a mannequin or some sort of statue. But that’s such a small gripe when you stop and realize that someone put a freakin’ Jason Voorhees statue in the bottom of a lake!

(14) YELLING WARNINGS AT THE SCREEN. At Nerds of a Feather, Chloe N. Clark gives us a microreview of a film called The Ritual.

Adam Nevill’s novel The Ritual is one of the few recent horror books to genuinely scare me as I read it, so when I saw that Netflix had done a film of it I was both excited and nervous. By nervous, I mean incredibly cowardly and watching the trailer through my fingers. However, I summoned up the courage (and by courage, I mean making someone watch it with me) to see it once it premiered on Netflix. Did it live up to my expectations (and by expectations, I mean did it leave me sleeping with the light on)? Both yes and no.

The plot of The Ritual sees four friends on a hiking trip in northern Sweden (it’s the King’s Trail in Sarek National Park—FYI, it looks gorgeous and even the movie’s creepy happenings couldn’t keep me from thinking about how much I’d like to hike there). The hike was supposed to be a bit of a friend’s trip, but is now a memorial trip for the fifth friend—who died in a liquor store robbery. Once on the hike, things begin to go awry, starting with one of the four twisting his knee. They decide to take a shortcut (Or the World’s Biggest No-No if you are in a horror movie) through the forest and soon strange and creepy things begin to happen. These includes symbols carved into trees, an elk gutted and hung up, and the world’s most DON’T STAY IN THERE cabin since the one in The Evil Dead. Of course, things only go downhill from there.

(15) ZELAZNY’S ROAD. Tadiana Jones looks back at a 1979 Zelazny book in “Roadmarks: The Road must roll” at Fantasy Literature.

In what frankly struck me as a rather gimmicky move by Roger Zelazny, the chapters of Roadmarks are all titled either One or Two; the first chapter is called “Two” and they alternate from there. The One chapters are linear and relate Red’s ongoing adventures. The Twos, about his would-be assassins and other characters that Red meets up with on the Road, are nonlinear and almost completely random. Zelazny told the story that he put all of the Two chapters on pieces of paper, shuffled them up and simply inserted them into his draft of the book in that order, although he admitted that his publisher eventually convinced him to put at least a few of these chapters in an order that made a little more sense.

Like the other two experimental novels I’ve read by Zelazny in recent months, A Night in the Lonesome October and Doorways in the Sand, Roadmarks is essentially one big mental puzzle, where Zelazny is hiding the ball from the reader on exactly what’s going on until you get quite deep into the novel. To get any real enjoyment out of these quirky and rather humorous novels, you just have to be on board with that approach and roll with it. For Roadmarks I had an entire page of notes that I took on each chapter of the book, just to try to keep all of the players and moving parts straight in my mind. It was definitely a challenging mental exercise!

(16) PLANETARY SOCIETY. Robert Picardo is on set with Bill Nye recording a video series about A.I., but he still has time for The Planetary Post

(17) LET THERE BE LIGHT. These signals are believed to date to about 180 millions years after the Big Bang: Cnet reports, “Stars billions of years old drop big clue to early universe”.

Astronomers have picked up a radio signal from the moment the lights went on in the universe billions of years ago, and they’ve discovered some surprises embedded in it. No, not aliens, but potential evidence of something just as mysterious and elusive.

Using a sensitive antenna only about the size of a table in the Australian desert, scientists managed to isolate the very faint signal of primordial hydrogen, part of the cosmic afterglow from the Big Bang.  But the ancient signal from this basic building block of the universe also carries the imprint of some of the first light from the very first stars ever.

(18) PERSISTENCE. Scientists consider an inhospitable desert: “Atacama’s lessons about life on Mars”.

Even in the driest places on Earth there is life eking out an existence, it seems.

Scientists have examined the soils in those parts of the Atacama desert that may not see any rains for decades.

Still, the team led from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, found evidence of microbes that have adapted to the extreme conditions.

These hardy organisms are of interest because they may serve as a template for how life could survive on Mars.

[Thanks to Steve Green, Paul Weimer, Cat Eldridge, Greg Hullender, Chip Hitchcock, JJ, John King Tarpinian, jayn, Martin Morse Wooster, Andrew Porter, Matthew Kressel, and Carl Slaughter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Camestros Felapton.]

Shimmer Program Taking Applications for a “Science Fiction Adventure in China”

Fans have until April 1 to apply to the Shimmer Program for a travel grant to visit the sff community in China:  “To Come on A Science Fiction Adventure in China ——Application guidelines for The Shimmer Program’s First Two-way Exchange Fund”.

They will pick one or two recipients who already “have a certain presence in [their] local or an international science fiction community” and are not citizens of China.

Familiarity with the Chinese language is not a requirement. All application documents and the interview will be in English.

The chosen travelers will visit China later in 2018 or 2019, and meet the sff community in at least two of these four cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, and Shenzhen. In each city, the traveler will make a presentation about their science fiction community. They will report on the trip in social media, and agree to carry out other responsibilities once the trip is over —

After you return from the exchange project, you should host at least one presentation event where you share your experience in China, experience with Chinese science fiction and your experience with The Shimmer Program with your local (international) science fiction community. If possible, we would like for you to serve as an ambassador for Chinese science fiction, and spread the words about Chinese science fiction in other international communities.

Full guidelines are at the linked article.

[Thanks to Darnell Coleman for the story.]

New Fred Patten Anthology
What the Fox?!

What the Fox?!, edited by Fred Patten, will be published by Thurston Howl Publications on March 3, and is available for pre-order.  It will be for sale on the THP online catalogue afterwards.

From a llama barbershop quartet to a lupine generation gap, a rabbit king battling a dinosaur (or is it a dragon?), a human with a spider fiancée, a dog-hating postal deliveryperson turned into a werechihuahua, inept wolf Vikings, a dog movie screenwriter, and more; these are stories for your imagination and enjoyment. Plus: each author’s favorite animal joke, and a recommended reading bibliography.

What the Fox?! is an anthology of 21 original short stories and two reprints, of anthropomorphic animals in humorous situations. This is designed to appeal to both s-f & fantasy fans, and fans of fantasy humor.  Each story has an illustration by Tabsley (the cover artist) or Jeqon.

The anthology is available in two editions.  The regular edition is in trade paperback, and the illustrations are in black-&-white and grayscale.  The deluxe edition is in hardcover and the illustrations are in full color. Each edition has a different cover.

Contents:

  • FAPD, by Sofox
  • Perfect Harmony, by Jaleta Clegg
  • Counter-Curlture, by Televassi
  • The Carrot is Mightier Than the Sword, by Nidhi Singh
  • A Web of Truths, by James Hudson
  • Suddenly, Chihuahua, by Madison Keller
  • Kenyak’s Saga, by MikasiWolf
  • Rapscallions, by Mary E. Lowd
  • Dazzle Joins the Screenwriters’ Guild, by Scott Bradfield
  • A Late Lunch, by Nightshade
  • Riddles in the Road, by Searska GreyRaven
  • The Lost Unicorn, by Shawn Frazier
  • Boomsday, by Jennie Brass
  • Oh! What a Night!, by Tyson West
  • Moral for Dogs, by Maggie Veness
  • Broadstripe, Virginia Smells Like Skunk, by Skunkbomb
  • A Legend In His Own Time, by Fred Patten
  • The Cat’s Meow, by Lisa Pais
  • Woolwertz Department Store Integrated Branch Employee Manual: Human-Furred Relations,  by Frances Pauli
  • A List of Erotica Clichés You Should Avoid in Your Heat Submission, by Dark End
  • The Best and Greatest Story Ever, by Mog Moogle
  • Self-Insertion, by Jaden Drackus
  • The Best and Greatest Sequel: Pron Harder Damnit!, by Some Guy Who Is Definitely Not The Main Character

Regular edition:  $18.00.  Deluxe edition: $25.00.  291 pages. Cover by Tabsley; 28 interior illustrations by Tabsley and Jeqon.   Regular ISBN 978-1-945247-30-9.  Deluxe ISBN 978-1-945247-31-6.

Uncanny Issue 21 Launches March 6

The twenty-first issue of the 2016 and 2017 Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine will be available on March 6.

Hugo Award-winning Publishers/Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are proud to present the twenty-first issue of their 2016 and 2017 Hugo Award-winning online science fiction and fantasy magazine, featuring passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture, along with a Parsec Award-winning monthly podcast featuring a story, poem, and interview from that issue. Stories from Uncanny Magazine have been finalists or winners of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards.

All of Uncanny Magazine’s content will be available in eBook versions on the day of release from Weightless Books, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Kobo. Subscriptions are always available through Amazon Kindle and Weightless Books.

Uncanny’s free online content will be released in two stages, half on the day of release, March 6, and half on April 3.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 21 Table of Contents

Cover 

  • Fam by Nilah Magruder

Editorial 

  • “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas (3/6)

Fiction

  • “I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise” by Sarah Pinsker (3/6)
  • “And Yet” by A. T. Greenblatt (3/6)
  • “Like a River Loves the Sky” by Emma Törzs (3/6)
  • “The Testimony of Dragon’s Teeth” by Sarah Monette (4/3)
  • “Pistol Grip” by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (4/3)
  • “The Howling Detective” by Brandon O’Brien (4/3)

Reprint Fiction

  • “Old Habits” by Nalo Hopkinson (3/6)

Nonfiction 

  • “How to Talk to Ghosts” by R.F. Kuang (3/6)
  • “The Work of a Workshop” by Neile Graham (3/6)
  • “Hard Enough” by Marissa Lingen (4/3)
  • “But What We Make: The Iterations of Sarah Connor” by Karlyn Ruth Meyer (4/3)

Poetry 

  • “The Sea Never Says It Loves You” by Fran Wilde (3/6)
  • “Found Discarded: A Love Poem, Questionably Addressed.” by Cassandra Khaw (3/6)
  • “drop some amens” by Brandon O’Brien (3/6)
  • “The Fairies in the Crawlspace” by Beth Cato (4/3)
  • “?? ?????” by Sonya Taaffe (4/3)
  • “Swallow” by Hal Y. Zhang (4/3)
  • “A View from Inside the Refrigerator” by Andrea Tang (4/3)

Interviews 

  • A.T. Greenblatt interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (3/6)
  • Vina Jie-Min Prasad interviewed by Caroline M. Yoachim (4/3)

Podcasts 

21A (3/6) 

  • “I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise” by Sarah Pinsker, as read by Stephanie Malia Morris
  • “Found Discarded: A Love Poem, Questionably Addressed.” by Cassandra Khaw, as read by Erika Ensign
  • Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Sarah Pinsker

21B (4/3)

  • “The Testimony of Dragon’s Teeth” by Sarah Monette, as read by Erika Ensign
  • “The Fairies in the Crawlspace” by Beth Cato, as read by Stephanie Malia Morris
  • Lynne M. Thomas Interviews Sarah Monette

2017 Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewer’s Choice Awards

The winners of the 2017 Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewer’s Choice Awards were announced February 21.

GHOSTS/HORROR/DARK FANTASY/PARANORMAL & URBAN/EPIC FANTASY

  • 1ST Place              Gallowglass (Gallowglass #1) By Jennifer Allis Provost
  • 2nd Place              The Awakening (The Elders Trilogy Book 1) By TL Travis
  • 3rd Place               Curses and Warfare (Tokens and Omens Book 2) By Jeri Baird

ROMANCE/HOLIDAY

  • 1ST Place              A Highland Ghost for Christmas (Gambling Ghosts #1) By Jo-Ann Carson
  • 2nd Place              Charley’s Christmas Wolf (The Macconwood Pack Book 1) By C.D. Gorri
  • 3rd Place               An Online Angel By Kelly Abell

ROMANCE/HOLIDAY – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Gambling Ghosts Series By Jo-Ann Carson

ROMANCE/FANTASY/SUSPENSE/TIME TRAVEL/HISTORICAL/WESTERN

  • 1ST Place              Quest of a Warrior (Legends of the Fenian Warriors Book 1) By Mary Morgan
  • 2nd Place              Legacy of Evil (The Hotel LaBelle Series Book 2) By Sharon Buchbinder
  • 3rd Place               Solace (Fae Warriors Book 1) By Gini Rifkin

ROMANCE/FANTASY/SUSPENSE/TIME TRAVEL/HISTORICAL/WESTERN – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              The Hotel LaBelle Series By Sharon Buchbinder
  • 2nd Place              Matchmaker & Co. Series By Cynthia Woolf
  • 3rd Place               Circle of Ghadan Series By Kimberly Cummons

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/ANGELS & GHOSTS/PSYCHICS

  • 1ST Place              Magnolia Mystic: Sentinels of Savannah (A Magnolias and Moonshine Novella Book 10) By Lisa Kessler
  • 2nd Place              Midnight Magic (A Ghost & Abby Mystery Book 1) By Jo-Ann Carson
  • 3rd Place               Evil Speaks Softly (The Nightwalkers Series Book 1) By Maureen L. Bonatch

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/ANGELS & GHOSTS/PSYCHICS – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              The Healing Edge Series By Anise Eden
  • 2nd Place              Roxanne’s Ghost Saga Series By Maggie Tideswell

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/DEMONS & DEVILS & ANGELS

  • 1ST Place              Tied In Knots (Immortals Book 7) By L.J. Vickery
  • 2nd Place              Michael’s Passion (A Series of Angels Book 1) By Joel Crofoot
  • 3rd Place               Angelic Anarchy (Heaven on Earth Book 1) By J.P. Epperson

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/DEMONS & DEVILS & ANGELS – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Immortals Series By L.J. Vickery
  • 2nd Place              Guardian Witch Legacy Series By Ally Shields
  • 3rd Place               Heaven Sent Series By Mary Abshire

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/VAMPIRES & SHIFTERS

  • 1ST Place              Wolf Moon (Moon #7) By Lisa Kessler
  • 2nd Place              Shifter’s Pride (Spirit Walker’s Saga Thrillers Book 2) By Laura Hawks
  • 3rd Place               Fallen Ashes: Fated & Forbidden (The Guardians Series) By T. F. Walsh

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/VAMPIRES & SHIFTERS – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Moon Series By Lisa Kessler
  • 2nd Place              Malsum Pass Series By Kimberly Forrest
  • 3rd Place               The Soul Bonded Trilogy By Meghan Malone

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/WITCHES & WIZARDS/EROTICA

  • 1ST Place              The Winter Queen’s Dragon (Tales of the Black Court Book 4) By Jessica Aspen
  • 2nd Place              A Warlock’s Secrets (Demon’s Witch #1) By Tena Stetler
  • 3rd Place               Soulmates (Drag.Me.To.Hell.Series Book 2) By Nadine Nightingale

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/WITCHES & WIZARDS/EROTICA – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Tales of the Black Court Series By Jessica Aspen
  • 2nd Place              Demon’s Witch Series By Tena Stetler
  • 3rd Place               Drag.Me.To.Hell.Series By Nadine Nightingale

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/SUSPENSE/GOTHIC/MYTHOLOGY/FOLK TALES

  • 1ST Place TIE       The Magician’s Curse (The Great Dagmaru Book 1) By Linda G. Hill
  • 1ST Place TIE       Breath of Passion (The Muse Chronicles Book 3) By Lisa Kessler
  • 2nd Place              Struck by Eros (Redeeming Cupid #1) By Jenn Windrow
  • 3rd Place               Forgetting Jane By C.J. Warrant

ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/SUSPENSE/GOTHIC/MYTHOLOGY/FOLK TALES – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              The Muse Chronicles By Lisa Kessler

ROMANCE/SCI-FI/FANTASY/TIME TRAVEL/CONTEMPORARY

  • 1ST Place              Simon Says (Order of the Black Swan, D.I.T. Book 1) By Victoria Danann
  • 2nd Place              Forged in Fire (The Fire Chronicles Book 2) By C.J. Bahr
  • 3rd Place TIE        Ember (Rulers of the Sky Book 2) By Paula Quinn
  • 3rd Place TIE        Running Hot (Hell Ryders MC Book 2) By J.L. Sheppard

ROMANCE/SCI-FI/FANTASY/TIME TRAVEL/CONTEMPORARY – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Order of the Black Swan, D.I.T. Series By Victoria Danann
  • 2nd Place              Rulers of the Sky Series By Paula Quinn
  • 3rd Place               The Adventures Of Sinbad Series By Toni V. Sweeney

SCI-FI/FANTASY/PARANORMAL/URBAN/SUSPENSE/THRILLER/EROTICA

  • 1ST Place              Bound to a Vampire (Into the Dark Woods Book 1) By Grey Francis
  • 2nd Place              Two Polluted Black-Heart Romances (The Water Kingdom Book 2) By Kevin James Breaux
  • 3rd Place               My Soul to Give (A Demon’s Love Book 1) By Magali A. Fréchette

SCI-FI/FANTASY/PARANORMAL/URBAN/SUSPENSE/THRILLER/EROTICA – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Into the Dark Woods Series By Grey Francis
  • 2nd Place              The Water Kingdom Series By Kevin James Breaux
  • 3rd Place               The Project Series By Alex Lukeman

Y/A & N/A

  • 1ST Place              Never Again (Book of Origins 1) By Alyse Nennig
  • 2nd Place              Cinderella Busted (The Cinderella Romances Book 1) By Petie McCarty
  • 3rd Place               Joshua and the Magical Islands (Portallas Book 2) By Christopher D. Morgan

Y/A & N/A – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Portallas Series By Christopher D. Morgan

NOVELLAS & SHORTS

  • 1ST Place              Her Fairytale Wolf By Milly Taiden & Marianne Morea
  • 2nd Place              Sunset Spells (The Witches Of New Moon Beach Book 4) By Meriam Wilhelm
  • 3rd Place               Bewitching the Vampire By Carrie Pulkinen

NOVELLAS & SHORTS – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              The Witches Of New Moon Beach Series By Meriam Wilhelm

HONORABLE MENTIONS

  • Rescued by the Wolf By Kristal Hollis
  • Bait N’ Witch (Legendary Consultants Book 3) By Abigail Owen

LGBT/PARANORMAL/METAPHYSICAL MYSTERY THRILLER

  • 1ST Place              The Mystery of the Curiosities (Snow & Winter Book 2) By C.S. Poe
  • 2nd Place              Jackalopes and Woofen-Poofs (Offbeat Crimes Book 5) By Angel Martinez
  • 3rd Place               Tried & True By Charlie Cochet

LGBT/PARANORMAL/METAPHYSICAL MYSTERY THRILLER – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              THIRDS Series By Charlie Cochet
  • 2nd Place              Offbeat Crimes Series By Angel Martinez
  • 3rd Place               Snow & Winter Series By C.S. Poe

LGBT/HOLIDAY

  • 1ST Place              A Viking for Yule By Jamie Fessenden
  • 2nd Place              Regret Me Not By Amy Lane
  • 3rd Place               A Warfield Christmas (The Warfield Hotel Mysteries Book 4) By C. J. Baty

LGBT/LITERATURE & FICTION/HISTORICAL FICTION

  • 1ST Place              Tramps and Thieves (Murder and Mayhem Book 2) By Rhys Ford
  • 2nd Place              Soul Searching By AJ Rose
  • 3rd Place               Out of the Shadows By Jamie Lynn Miller

LGBT/LITERATURE & FICTION/HISTORICAL FICTION – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Murder and Mayhem Series By Rhys Ford

LBGT/MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/THRILLER/ACTION/ADVENTURE

  • 1ST Place              Hunted Soldier (Shadow Unit BOOK 3) By Jamie Lynn Miller
  • 2nd Place              Roaring Waters (The Warfield Hotel Mysteries Book 3) By C. J. Baty
  • 3rd Place               Consent (Power Exchange Book 3) By A.J. Rose

LBGT/MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/THRILLER/ACTION/ADVENTURE – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Power Exchange Series By A.J. Rose
  • 2nd Place              Shadow Unit Series By Jamie Lynn Miller
  • 3rd Place               The Warfield Hotel Mysteries Series By C. J. Baty

LGBT/ROMANCE

  • 1ST Place              Rebel (415 Ink Book 1) By Rhys Ford
  • 2nd Place              The Remaking of Corbin Wale By Roan Parrish
  • 3rd Place               Fire and Hail (Carlisle Cops Book 5) By Andrew Grey

LGBT/ROMANCE – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Carlisle Cops Series By Andrew Grey
  • 2nd Place              Conduct Series By L.A. Witt
  • 3rd Place               Rekindled Flame Series By Andrew Grey

LGBT/ROMANCE/MYSTERY/SUSPENSE

  • 1ST Place              If The Seas Catch Fire By L.A. Witt
  • 2nd Place              Red Fish, Dead Fish (Fish Out of Water Book 2) By Amy Lane

LGBT/ROMANCE/MYSTERY/SUSPENSE – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Fish Out of Water Series By Amy Lane

LGBT/ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/VAMPIRES & SHIFTERS/ANGELS & DEMONS/UF

  • 1ST Place              Darkness Rising (Yellowstone Wolves #3) By Dirk Greyson
  • 2nd Place              Familiar Angel By Amy Lane
  • 3rd Place               Three Hearts By Grace R. Duncan

LGBT/ROMANCE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY/VAMPIRES & SHIFTERS/ANGELS & DEMONS/UF – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Yellowstone Wolves Series By Dirk Greyson
  • 2nd Place              Warlock Brothers of Havenbridge Series By Jacob Z. Flores

LGBT/SCI-FI/FANTASY/EPIC

  • 1ST Place              Quickening, Volume 2 (Little Goddess Series, Book 5) By Amy Lane
  • 2nd Place              Stasis (Ennek Trilogy Book 1) By Kim Fielding
  • 3rd Place               Lord of Ravens (Inheritance Book 3) By Amelia Faulkner

LGBT/SCI-FI/FANTASY/EPIC – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              Little Goddess Series By Amy Lane
  • 2nd Place              Inheritance Series By Amelia Faulkner

NOVELLAS AND SHORTS

  • 1ST Place              Lost Mate By Dirk Greyson
  • 2nd Place TIE       The Layover By Roe Horvat
  • 2nd Place TIE       The Misadventures of Doc and Dirk, Volume IV By Dan Skinner
  • 3rd Place               His Fragile Heart By Jamie Lynn Miller

NOVELLAS AND SHORTS – SERIES

  • 1ST Place              The Misadventures of Doc and Dirk Series By Dan Skinner

HONORABLE MENTION – Award for New Author Breakout Author/Book

  • The Layover by Roe Horvat

[Via Locus Online. (See – it’s practically painless.)]

Pixel Scroll 2/27/18 But A Scroll Files What It Wants To File And Pixelates The Rest

(1) SCROLLO. Four genuine Solo posters appeared in this space recently. I learned from Nerdist there have been a lot of Solo parodies, like these —

(2) WHAT, ME WORRY? In December, the Scroll linked to Washington Post writer Joel Achenbach’s query about whether robots will kill us all once AI becomes smarter than people. The Bookmark has responded with “Artificial Intelligence: Today’s Intrigue. Tomorrow’s Terminator”, which tells each AI’s Terminator Score, and how close each AI is to bringing about the end of the world.

“How might AI fit into our lives?” Our chart explains advancements in AI ranging from novelty to utility. You can click on any of the AI to learn more about how humans benefit from their existence. And, use our Terminator score (with 1 being the least threatening and 5 being the most) to help decide if you should worry about a robot uprising with each AI.

(3) LEVAR AND LANGFORD. Congratulations to David Langford, whose short story “Different Kinds of Darkness” is on Episode 19 of LeVar Burton Reads.

A group of children form a secret society around a mysterious and powerful artifact….

(4) SURPRISED BESTSTELLER. This scam involving fake books is a means of laundering money (not to gull regular readers into buying fake books as if they came from their favorite author) — “Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Amazon?”

Patrick Reames had no idea why Amazon.com sent him a 1099 form saying he’d made almost $24,000 selling books via Createspace, the company’s on-demand publishing arm. That is, until he searched the site for his name and discovered someone has been using it to peddle a $555 book that’s full of nothing but gibberish….

…Reames said he suspects someone has been buying the book using stolen credit and/or debit cards, and pocketing the 60 percent that Amazon gives to authors. At $555 a pop, it would only take approximately 70 sales over three months to rack up the earnings that Amazon said he made.

(5) KUGALI. One of several crowdsourced projects hoping to ride the Black Panther’s wave is “The Kugali Anthology”, featuring African and diaspora creators.

200 full colour pages.  15 incredibly talented creators, 6 amazing stories and two wonderfully designed covers. But above all: a comic book experience you won’t find anywhere else!

From multiple award-winners to the brightest up-and-coming voices, Kugali has united some of the most talented artists across the African continent and diaspora. Our creators hail from across Africa (Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa, Uganda) and other parts of the world (Venezuela, Brazil, Jamaica, the US and the UK)….

So far backers have pledged $2,890 of the $13,596 goal, with 28 days remaining.

(6) OTHERING. Dare Segun Falowo has a lot of interesting things to say about the villains from Black Panther.

….A lot of people are like he was right ideologically and I get where they are coming from. Still he wouldn’t have ended up being morally right because his repressed disdain for his place in the world has left him ill. He would have kept on drinking more and more of that sense of complete and utter power and it would have ruined him. He even had the purple plant destroyed because he wanted it for himself alone.

So he basically had actions that marked him out as obviously villainous but behind all these actions are factors like being abandoned as a child, being excluded by his blood. Think of it, how African Americans and certain Africans don’t get along because these Africans believe that African Americans are not African blah blah blah. It really hits a spot and the way the character is crafted, down to the jagged family ties, brings together a lot of the facets of what is seemingly wrong with the idea of the African-American both from the Western viewpoint, and from the African viewpoint. He stands in the middle. He’s othered actually. He’s an other in the story. Even though he has the accent and all, he belongs nowhere….

(7) SOCIOLOGY AT THE BOX OFFICE. According to NPR, a “Hollywood Diversity Study Finds ‘Mixed Bag’ When It Comes To Representation”.

The global box office success of Black Panther is no surprise to UCLA sociologist Darnell Hunt. His annual report on Hollywood diversity argues that movies and TV shows with diverse casts and creators pay off for the industry’s bottom line.

Hunt says Black Panther, for example, “smashed all of the Hollywood myths that you can’t have a black lead, that you can’t have a predominantly black cast and [have] the film do well. It’s an example of what can be done if the industry is true to the nature of the market. But it’s too early to tell if Black Panther will change business practices or it’s an outlier. We argue it demonstrates what’s possible beyond standard Hollywood practices.”

The fifth annual diversity report is subtitled, “Five Years of Progress and Missed Opportunities,” suggesting that America’s increasingly diverse audience prefers diverse film and television content. The study reports that people of color bought the majority of movie tickets for the five of the top 10 films in 2016, and television shows with diverse casts did well in both ratings and social media.

(8) MELNIKER OBIT. Benjamin Melniker, best known as a producer on Warner Bros.’ many Batman projects, has died at the age of 104.

Melniker was credited on every big-screen version of the DC superhero since Tim Burton’s 1989 film.

(9) COMICS SECTION.

  • John King Tarpinian found genre laughs in the Wizard of Id – I laughed too!

(10) DEEPSOUTHCON. At last weekend’s DeepSouthCon business meeting, CONtraflow (New Orleans) won its bid to host DSC in 2020.

(11) ANNIHILATION. The BBC’s Caryn James awards “Four Stars for the thrilling Annihilation.

… The further the team explores, the more we see of each character’s particular vulnerability. Cass is grieving for a dead child. Anya is a sober addict. In flashback we learn that Lena’s marriage was not as perfect as it seemed at the start. “Almost none of us commit suicide,” Ventress says about the team’s apparent suicide mission, extending it to a sweeping assessment of human nature. “Almost all of us self-destruct.”

Garland playfully borrows from classic genre films and makes those references and influences his own. There are scenes that evoke 2001, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and any number of Terrence Malick films. The minimalist, electronic score by Geoff Barrow (of the group Portishead) and Ben Salisbury adds a subtle layer of mystery….

(12) YOUTUBER MIGRATES TO TUBE WITH NEW SFF COMEDY. The Daily Beast’s Karen Han asks “Is ‘Final Space’ the Next Great Animated Series?”

Even if the name Olan Rogers doesn’t ring a bell, if you’ve spent any time on the internet over the past few years, you’ve probably seen his face. His YouTube channel has close to a million subscribers, and his videos are popular to the point that they’ve been mined for reaction images and GIFs. His latest project is considerably larger in scale, though it still bears the signs, good and bad, of that more short-form medium.

Final Space, airing on TBS and executive produced by Conan O’Brien, is an animated sci-fi comedy. Like most TV shows, it falls prey to the rule of “give it a few episodes and then it’ll get good,” but it’s charmingly animated and bite-sized to boot (each episode clocks in at just over 20 minutes), so it’s worth sitting through the shaky opening episodes to get to what lies beyond.

(13) NO MORE HAPPY FEET? French scientists report that king penguin breeding grounds will become untenable due to global warming: “Scientists Predict King Penguins Face Major Threats Due To Climate Change” (Of course, you all know Happy Feet is about emperor penguins rather than king penguins, so apologies if the headline struck you as a shocking error….)

Seventy percent of the world’s king penguin population could face threats to its habitat by the end of this century, according to a new scientific model.

The researchers say the problem is that the animals’ primary source of food is moving farther away from places where the penguins can breed. They’re very likely going to have to swim farther for their dinner.

“This is really surprising to us, to find such a massive change is going to happen in such a short time frame,” says Emiliano Trucchi, a researcher in evolutionary genetics from the University of Ferrara. The team’s research, co-led by Céline Le Bohec of the Université de Strasbourg, was published Monday in Nature Climate Change.

Trucchi tells NPR that king penguins breed only on islands that are ice-free near Antarctica, and there are “just a handful” of those.

BBC also has a story.

(14) KEEP DANCING. Maxwell Smart would be proud: hands-free emergency signaling via shoe radios: “Morse code shoes send toe tapping texts at MWC 2018”.

A pair of smart shoes has been created to let industrial workers keep in touch via toe-typed coded messages.

The footwear was inspired by Morse code, but made possible by the latest communication technologies.

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones meets the firm responsible at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

(15) TODAY’S OUTRAGE. Io9 was not exactly surprised to find an argument on the internet getting out of hand, one that seemed to have lost track of an obvious fact: “We’re Sorry to Have to Remind You, But Groot Is Dead”.

Groot is dead. Long live Baby Groot!

Die-hard Guardians of the Galaxy fans are known for having watched and rewatched the James Gunn films multiple times in search of the hard-to-find Easter eggs the filmmaker scattered throughout the movie. That’s what makes it so odd that these fans seem to have forgotten something rather important about our dear friend Groot. He’s dead.

Gunn recently got into a heated philosophical debate with Entertainment Tonight producer Ash Crossan about whether it would be better to save the life of a single porg (from Star Wars: The Last Jedi) or Groot if forced to choose in a hypothetical situation. Crossnan argued in favor of the porg and Gunn understandably went to bat for Groot, pointing out that the sentient plant had a direct hand in saving the universe.

(16) LUCIFER EPISODE RECAP. Martin Morse Wooster decided to save me from my bad wi-fi by writing a recap instead of sending a link. Thanks, Martin!

I watched Lucifer last night.  I haven’t seen the show in a while, but it now has a credit (which it didn’t used to have) acknowledging that the comic book on which it is based was created by Neil Gaiman and two other people.  This was the first time I saw that Gaiman had anything to do with this show.

The plot was about a popular YA author who wrote the Class of 3001 series, in which she fictionalized characters from her high school years.  But she put her high school antics in the future, and as one detective said, “She did have to come up with that futuristic sci-fi fantasy stuff.  That’s not easy.”  The author died because she wrote her novels on a typewriter, and there was only one copy.  The killer pummeled the author with her typewriter, and ultimately confessed that he did it because “she ended the series in the most boring way possible” and didn’t want anyone to read her ending.

Also, in the show a clueless nerd fails to impress a blind date by giving her a plant that was “the traditional Mexican cure for constipation.”

[Thanks to David K.M. Klaus, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Dave Doering, Cat Eldridge, Chip Hitchcock, Martin Morse Wooster, Carl Slaughter, Rich Lynch, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little.]

Pixel Scroll 2/26/18 Go To File. Go Directly To File. Do Not Pass Scroll, Do Not Collect 200 Pixels

EDITOR’S NOTE: This will be a very short scroll, as I am on a slow motel wi-fi and have already spent a chunk of the evening waiting for screen reloads. Filers, please add some good things in the comments to compensate!

(1) INDIGENOUS SFF. The Herald of Harare, Zimbabwe reports on a rare sff book in the local language: “Science fiction Shona novel print version”

Science fiction is a sub-genre of speculative fiction which in Zimbabwean literature is an uncommon type of writing because of the assumed limitations of the indigenous languages. With the rapid technological exploits happening in the world today, local language experts have met the vexing challenge of adopting new technological terms into the local languages.We are yet to have a wide range of complete dictionaries of technological or scientific terms translated into local languages to help writers explore their different worlds of the imagination.

Motivating indeed it is to note that a first step towards such an ‘expansion’ of our local language has been taken by UK-based Zimbabwean writer Masimba Musodza in his trailblazing feat in the science fiction genre.

His novel “Munahacha Maive Nei?” (Belontos Books) is the first science fiction or speculative fiction novel in Shona language. The novel first appeared five years ago as an e-book before its print edition and now it is available in the new paperback, hardback and e-book editions. Hopefully, the reading public in Zimbabwe will soon have a chance to buy personal copies in local bookstores.

(2) SOUTHERN VIEW. The Southern Fandom Confederation selected officers at its DeepSouthCon business meeting last weekend. Gary Robe is the new President, and Jennifer Liang is the new Vice-President. As Tom Feller notes, they swapped positions, each having held the other office last year.

(3) LUCKEY OBIT. From the BBC: Bud Luckey, Toy Story Woody’s designer dies”. Born in 1934, he designed several other characters for Pixar, and did some voices. He also worked on number and counting features for Sesame Street.

(4) LONG ARM OF THE LAW. “Supreme Court considers Microsoft overseas data row” — seems subtle, but far-reaching consequences:

A five-year legal battle between Microsoft and the US Justice Department reaches the Supreme Court this week.

The row is over whether US laws give the government the power to make tech companies surrender data they have on users that is stored overseas.

The case dates from 2013, when prosecutors sought emails on a Microsoft server in Ireland sent by a drug-trafficking suspect.

The US government said as Microsoft was a US company it could request the data.

Microsoft disputed this interpretation, saying a warrant issued in the US could not be used to recover information outside the country.

(5) GOT TO GET BACK TO THE GARDEN. “Against a bleak future: Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds reaches one million mark”: that’s a million types, not just a million seeds. Who knew there were that many discrete varieties?

The vault storing the world’s most precious seeds is taking delivery on Monday of consignments that will take it to the one million mark.

More than 70,000 crops will be added to frozen storage chambers buried deep within a mountain in the Arctic Circle.

Cereal staples, unusual crops like the Estonian onion potato, and barley used to brew Irish beer are among them.

Monday marks the tenth anniversary of the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard.

One of three chambers is now almost full of packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop.

The number of deposits amounts to 1,059,646. This number excludes emergency withdrawals of about 90,000 seeds needed to make up for precious samples stranded in Syria due to the conflict there.

(6) ZAP THE APP. BBC reports — “Sarahah: Anonymous app dropped from Apple and Google stores after bullying accusations”.

A wildly popular anonymous messaging app has been removed from the Apple and Google stores after accusations that it has been facilitating bullying. But the company’s chief executive denies the claims and says the app isn’t meant to be used by younger teens.

Katrina Collins was appalled by the anonymous messages her 13-year-old daughter was receiving. One person said she hoped her daughter would kill herself. Others used extremely foul and offensive language.

The messages appeared on the Sarahah app, which was designed to allow people to leave “honest feedback” about colleagues and friends. Although Collins’ daughter wasn’t actually using the app, she saw the messages after a friend downloaded it and showed them to her.

[Thanks to JJ, Martin Morse Wooster, Rich Lynch, Cat Eldridge, Chip Hitchcock, John King Tarpinian, Carl Slaughter and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Rev. Bob.]

Dublin 2019 Membership Rates Go Up April 3

Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon has announced the following changes in attending membership prices to take effect from Tuesday, April 3, 2018:

  • Adult Attending Membership Rate (26+ years of age on August 15, 2019) will increase from €160 to €180
  • First Worldcon will increase from €100 to €110
  • Young Adult (13 – 25 years) will increase from €100 to €110
  • Child (6 – 12 years) will increase from €60 to €65

The Infant (under 6 years) rate will remain unchanged at €5, and the Supporting Membership rate will remain unchanged at €40.

As part of the convention’s commitment to supporting families and children to attend this unique event, Dublin 2019 will also be introducing family plans and an installment scheme before the price increase takes effect. Details of these schemes will be announced separately during March 2018.

Dublin 2019 currently offers a €5 discount on membership prices for pre-supporters and backers of the Dublin 2019 Bid. This discount will expire on Monday, April 2, 2018. Discounts for Friends of the Dublin 2019 Bid will however remain available.

All classes of Dublin 2019 membership are available for immediate purchase through the Dublin 2019 website at https://api.dublin2019.com/. Full information on membership classes and terms can be found at https://dublin2019.com/join-us/.

According to Dublin 2019 Chairman James Bacon, “Joining the Worldcon gives science fiction fans access to every part of this unique event, including a choice of over 500 programme items, attending the Hugo Award Ceremony, exploring the Art Show or adding to your collection in our Dealers’ Room. Joining now offers you the cheapest rate for attending the event and gives us the income visibility needed to plan with confidence.”

Fahrenheit 451 (2018) Official Teaser

Today HBO dropped the teaser trailer for its production of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 415.

Fahrenheit 451 is based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel. In a future where the media is an opiate, history is rewritten and “firemen” burn books, Jordan plays Guy Montag, a young fireman who struggles with his role as law enforcer and with his “mentor”, played by Shannon. Premieres Spring 2018 on HBO.

 

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]