For many writers, penning a story about an astronaut stranded on Mars would ultimately lead to some such sci-fi elements as little green men or an ancient civilization destroyed by some unknown danger.
But in his first novel, The Martian (paperback, Kindle), Andy Weir is taking a different approach; a more realistic one that eschews sci-fi tropes, and makes this more of a thriller and a disaster movie in book form.
With his new medical sci-fi horror novel Pandemic (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Scott Sigler brings his Infected trilogy to a close. In honor of this, I spoke to him about his original influences, how this series could be adapted to other media, and which of his other books you should read when you’re done with Pandemic.
Gentle Giant and Chronicle Books have announced that they will release special editions of Jeffrey Brown’s Darth Vader And Son and Darth Vader’s Little Princess — which will include exclusive sculptures and versions of the books — sometime before this summer.
Much like chocolate and peanut butter or Anthrax and Public Enemy, the idea of mixing of cyberpunk atmospheres and pulp crime aesthetics probably seemed weird before someone tried to do it (that someone being Philip K. Dick with his novella “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?”). But we’re glad someone did since it’s led us to Shovel Ready, a new novel by Adam Sternbergh (Crown Publishing). In it, a hit man in the not-so-distant future is hired to whack an evangelist’s daughter, and, suffice it to say, it does not go well for our “hero.”
Gentle Giant have announced that the next release in their series of 12-inch tall replicas of Star Wars Kenner action figures will be Han Solo in the outfit he wore on Bespin in 1980’s Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
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.
BBC Home Video have announced that Doctor Who: The Time Of The Doctor — which marks Matt Smith’s final turn as the space shamus — will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 4th.
Gentle Giant have announced that they will release two new Star Wars action figures in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Summit Entertainment have announced that the sci-fi movie Ender’s Game will be released on DVD, in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack, and digitally on February 11th.