Doctor Who The Visual Dictionary By Neil Corry. Jacqueline Rayner, Andrew Darling, Kerrie Dougherty, David John and Simon Beecroft 144 pages, DK Publishing, $24.99 Your first thought is, why on earth are we reviewing this book when it came out last year? The answer is – because this is a brand new edition, incorporating only…
Star Trek: The Original Series 365 By Paula M. Block with Terry J. Erdmann 744 Pages, Abrams, $29.95 Just in time for the television icon’s 44th birthday and your Christmas list, Abrams adds to their delightful 365 library with [[[Star Trek]]] the Original Series. Let me state upfront that co-authors Paula Block and Terry Erdmann…
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia DK Publishing, 208 pages, $16.99 Ever since it was mentioned in the original [[[Star Wars]]], fans have always been curious about the events of the Clone Wars. It was a never a factor in the original film trilogy, just a nifty throwaway line to add depth to George…
Anticipating today’s release of [[[Iron Man 2]]], DK Publishing released [[[Iron Man: The Ultimate Guide to the Armored Super Hero]]] back in February. The book, like last year’s [[[Wolverine]]] offering, is in their new thicker but shorter trim size and at 200 pages is chock full of information regarding only the comic book career of…
While Pocket Books’ publishing program has to avoid the five year mission era of Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise until 2012 when the second film from J.J. Abrams is released, that doesn’t mean there won’t be stories set in the original universe.Star Trek: Vanguard, a novel series conceived by former editor…
The Horror Writers Association has announced the nominees for the 2009 Bram Stoker Award, honoring superior achievement in horror literature: SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan (Harper) Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin) Quarantined by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing) Cursed by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog…
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Malice By Chris Wooding, illustrated by Dan Chernett Scholastic Press, $14.99, 380 pages What if you could transport yourself to another world by following an incantation found in a comic book? Well, you might find the world a frightening and terrible place, just as children find in the new novel [[[Malice]]]. Chris Wooding, an accomplished…
Diana Laurence’s How to Catch and Keep a Vampire: A Step-By-Step Guide to Loving the Bad and the Beautiful (Sellers Publishing, 10/23/09, $14.95 trade paperback) is advertised as non-fiction and humor. It’s 160 pages, complete with FAQs, myth busting, case studies, cutesiness with perhaps a nod to Sex and the City, references to the latest…
James Bond Encyclopedia By John Cork and Collin Stutz 334 Pages, DK Publishing, $40 Nobody does it better. DK Publishing continues to put out the best assortment of visual reference books on pop culture and as we near the holidays, they keep pumping out one must have collection after another. Few literary figures have endured…
Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary By Simon Beecroft 96 pages, $21.99, DK Publishing It used to be that Lego would never feature licensed characters. Instead, you could construct moon bases or pirate ships and make up your own characters to tell tales plucked straight from your imagination. Then came the first license, [[[Star Wars]]],…
[[[Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of the Atlantic Paranormal Society]]] By Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson with Michael Jan Friedman Pocket Books, 272 pages, $16 One of the major successes of the Sci Fi Channel was the arrival of [[[Ghost Hunters]]], a series focusing on the explorations into the paranormal as conducted by Jason Hawes and…
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