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Game Of Thrones The Complete Fourth Season Collector’s Edition Steelbook Blu-ray Review

Like the Steelbook editions of The Complete First Season, The Complete Second Season, and the new The Complete Third Season (my review of which you can read here), the Game Of Thrones The Complete Fourth Season Collector’s Edition Steelbook Blu-ray is, obviously, not worth buying if you already own the previous Blu-ray edition. Even though it does have a cool Knights Watch magnet. But if you don’t own this season on Blu-ray, well, then you’re in luck, because this collection does a mostly great job of presenting these ten episodes.

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Exclusive Interview: Grunt Author Mary Roach

In the thirteen years since she released her first book, Stiff — which explained how scientists have used cadavers to advance human understand of the body…and plastic surgery — writer Mary Roach has applied her patented mix of intellectual curiosity and situational humor to explain how scientists study such topics as sex (2008’s Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Science And Sex), eating (2013’s Gulp: Adventures On The Alimentary Canal), and what waits for us after we die (2005’s Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife) in a way that makes these science books as entertaining as they are educational. But like her 2010 tome Packing For Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In The Void — which took a different approach, and looked at how scientists were figuring out how to help astronauts survive their trips to the cosmos — her new book Grunt: The Curious Science Of Humans At War (paperback, hardcover, digital) is also more about what scientists do than how they study a certain topic.

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Exclusive Interview: “Sleeping Giants” Author Sylvain Neuvel

 

In his debut novel Sleeping Giants (hardcover, digital), writer Sylvain Neuvel uses interview transcripts and journal entries to tell the story of how a young girl from South Dakota found an enormous metal hand, and then grew up to be a scientist searching for the rest of the giant robot. Though in talking to him about the book, it’s clear that this story may be larger than one young girl and one big robot.

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Exclusive Interview: The Revelation Code Author Andy McDermott

Fans always say that the book was better than the movie, and authors always says the movie fails to capture the spirit of the book. But what do you say when the book is admittedly written as a movie in book form? And by someone who used to write for a movie magazine? Such is the case with writer Andy McDemott, the author of the “Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase” novels, the newest of which is The Revelation Code (paperback, digital).

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Funko Announce Game Of Thrones Dorbz, Mystery Minis, And Action Figures

Funko have announced that they’ll release a new line of Dorbz, the third series of Mystery Minis, and a new set of action figures — all based on Game Of Thrones — this May, June, and July.

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Exclusive Interview: Sex, Drugs, And Cartoon Violence Author Russ Pitts

One day, someone will write a tell-all book about what it’s like being a video game journalist. But today is not that day. Which is good because I’ve been writing about games for more than twenty years and I’m getting bored just thinking about it.

Instead, today is the day you get to read about what it’s been like for video game journalist Russ Pitts to write his second memoir, Sex, Drugs, And Cartoon Violence: My Decade As A Video Game Journalist (paperback, digital). The follow-up to last year’s Eagle Semen: The Story Of TechTV Employee Number One, the book chronicles Pitts’ ten year stint at Polygon (where he was one of the Founding Editors and their former Features Editor) and The Escapist (where he held multiple titles including Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Director), as well as his time contributing to IGN, Gamespot, Kotaku, and other gaming outlets.

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Exclusive Interview: Star Trek Enterprise Live By The Code Author Christopher L Bennett

In numerology — which Wikipedia defines as “any belief in the divine, mystical relationship between a number ad one or more coinciding events” — the number 4 is supposed to reflect stability. Well, someone might want to tell that to writer Christopher L Bennett, the author of Star Trek Enterprise Rise Of The Federation Live By The Code (paperback, digital). Because while it’s the fourth book in his Rise Of The Federation series, and is set four years after The Federation was founded, an event depicted in the last episode of the fourth and final season of the TV show Star Trek: Enterprise, in talking about Bennett about Live By The Code, I don’t get the sense that he was going for stability.

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Exclusive Interview: Stand Your Ground Author Raeder Lomax

Unlike science fiction, pulpy crime novels usually shy away from social or political issues. They don’t often work as allegories for something else. But with Stand Your Ground (paperback, digital), writer Raeder Lomax has written a pulpy crime novel that doesn’t shy away from…okay, maybe not taking a political stance, but it certainly doesn’t shy away from one of our more controversial gun laws. Though in talking to Lomax about the book, and the prequel he’s already got in the works, it’s clear that his kind of pulp was probably always going to get political.

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Game Of Thrones The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray, DVD Review

With the sixth season of Game Of Thrones set to premiere April 24th on HBO, it might be a good time to refresh your memory or get caught up by watching the previous season. And hey, how’s this for coincidence: the Game Of Thrones The Complete Fifth Season is now out on Blu-ray and DVD. Even cooler, this collection not only presents the show as it was meant to be seen, but it has a ton of great extras, especially if you get the Blu-ray.

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