When you think about it, I mean really think about it, the best thing to be in a zombie apocalypse isn’t a cop or a army guy or a sword-swinging lady with cool hair. It’s a superhero. Well, one with superpowers, that is, not just some rich dude with parental abandonment issues. At least that what I’ve gleaned from the Ex- novels by Peter Clines, who explains what inspired these novels as well as both the zombies and superheroes in them.
The Guinness World Records people — not to be confused with the Guinness Delicious Beer people — have announced that the Guinness World Records 2014 Gamers Edition has been released.
As anyone who saw the misfiring movie Parker can attest, adapting the crime novels Donald Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark is no easy task. But as he showed with his previous graphic novel adaptations of Stark’s Parker books, writer / artist Darwyn Cooke has a real sense of what makes the character, and his misadventures, so unique and engaging. One that serves well for him in Richard Stark’s Parker: Book Four: Slayground (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), the latest illustrated take on Stark’s master thief.
Be it in movies, games, or books, zombies are either fast or they’re slow, and never shall the twain meet. But in 2010’s Rise Again, writer Ben Tripp dared to suggest that one might actually evolve into the other (and we all know how some people feel about evolution). Now Tripp has released a sequel, Rise Again Below Zero (Gallery Books), in which he suggests that the living impaired may evolve even further.
With his 1987’s novel Infernal Devices, writer K.W. Jeter presented a unique and (ultimately) influential work of steampunk fiction. Now — after twenty-five years and as many other books — he’s following it up with Fiendish Schemes (Tor Books), a sequel of sorts that catches us up with the original book’s main character, George Dower.
In J.W. Rinzler’s The Making Of Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (hardcover, Kindle), we learn, in great detail, how the titular sci-fi movie was made, complete with behind-the-scenes photos, numerous new interviews, original concept drawings, script pages, and other bits of movie minutiae. But if you think this makes the book just for film students or people who have to know every single trivial detail about this film, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Amazon have announced that they’ll release the new Kindle Paperwhite, their sixth generation ereader, on September 30.
The new Kindle will boast a new, easier-to-read display with better contrast and a built-in light to lessen eyestrain, as well as updated touch technology.
Out Of Print have launched a new line of iPhone cases that — like the cool t-shirts they sell — are all emblazoned with imagery from the jackets of classic novels and other literary references.
And, as with all of Out Of Print stuff, they will donate a book to the charity Books For Africa for every item sold.
Available for the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5, the 4 and 4S cases, the press release states, “feature a canvas plus plastic hard shell, access to all of the buttons and collaboration with speck designs. The iPhone 5 cases feature a slim hard shell snap-on case with a smooth matte finish and access to all buttons.”
There are current six different iPhone cases based on the covers of classic novels:
Lewis Caroll’s Alice In Wonderland
Jack London’s The Call Of The Wild
William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
George Orwell’s 1984
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
In addition, there’s a seventh called “Poe-Ka-E Dots” that has Edgar Allan’s Poe’s famous mug repeating…
…and “Library Card,” which should be self-explanatory.
All of the cases are $25.00 and are available now.