Tor Books has announced the release of Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card. After twenty-three years, this is the first true, direct sequel to the award-winning Ender’s Game. Published in 1985 with millions of copies sold worldwide, the New York Times bestselling Ender’s Game received acclaim and honors, appearing on Modern Library’s Best 100…
Sometimes I even confuse myself, and I think I’ve just done it with that sub-head. These three books are all the fourth volumes of their series, all things I reviewed before, and all from Yen Press (because they and Del Rey are the most consistent at sending me books for review – hint, hint, other…
Mad Artist Tom Richmond wrote on his blog about a new Mad book, due out tomorrow. He wrote, “Back in 1998 Mad published MAD About the Movies, a collection of movie spoofs from over the years. It was in part to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Warner Bros. (WB owns DC Comics which in turn…
The Vertigo Encyclopedia By Alex Irvine DK Publishing, September 2008, $29.99 There are few ways to produce a traditional encyclopedia, usually beginning with an alphabetical listing. Most come with illustrations and are written in an academic style with little in the way of adjectives let alone opinions. Graphic presentation may be the key difference between…
Yen Press has been moved from the Young Adult division of Hachette Book Group to become an imprint of the company’s Orbit line of science fiction titles. Orbit was already an existing imprint and is now being upgraded to a separate division, much as DelRey is an imprint and separate division of Random House. They…
Well as careers go, here’s a good one. Start off writing a fanzine and wind up working with and for Del Close and Monty Python and, specifically, John Cleese. Then you get to write all kinds of books about your labors. Long-time comics journalist and frequent ComicMix commenter Kim Howard Johnson has a new book…
classid=”clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D” id=ieooui> The Flash Gordon Serials, 1936-1940: A Heavily Illustrated Guide By Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich, and R.J. Vitone McFarland & Co. Publishers, August 2008, $55 Growing up in New York during the 1960s meant that Sunday morning we were treated to two choices: Sonny Fox on Channel 5’s [[[Wonderama]]] or the zany Chuck McCann…
There have been a lot of rumors circulating about the direction that the Star Trek books will be taking after the events surrounding the Destiny trilogy by David Mack. The first book set in the new Trek universe is Keith DeCandido’s A Singular Destiny. DeCandido, a veteran Star Trek writer and editor, has the hurculean…
A few days back we told you about Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt’s new novel, Dracula: The Un-dead. It had been purchased by Harper UK but now we learn from Publisher’s Weekly that Dutton publisher Brian Tart won the domestic rights. The last time the Stoker family gave its seal of approval to a Dracula…
Nine years ago, game developer Jeff Kinney started to write the diary of a boy named Gregg Heffley. A few years after that, he began to publish the story on the website FunBrain.com. Charles Kochman picked it up for the Harry N. Abrams imprint, Amulet Books, and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid phenomenon was…
Dracula lives again, this time authorized by Bram Stoker’s family. His great-grandnephew, 50-year old Dacre Stoker has teamed with author Ian Holt to write Dracula: The Undead which has been sold to Harper UK for August 2009 publication. The story, set 25 years after the original book, sees the vampire arrive in London, seeking Mina…
David Mack, not the Kabuki David Mack, is no stranger to the Star Trek writing universe, having written several well-acclaimed novels solo and also a couple of televison episodes with former Star Trek book editor John Ordover. He dipped a toe into the Marvel Universe with his excellent Wolverine novel, Road of Bones (with a…
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