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- The BBC is animating Doctor Who in a 13-part adventure called The Infinite Quest. [via Forbidden Planet]
- Velcro City Tourist Board lists an incomplete bibliography of worthwhile science fiction and genre criticism culled from a new website/forum set up by Gabe Chouinard to discuss such matters.
- Free fiction at Analog: Queen of Candesce (part I). [also via VCTB]
- CBS has picked up two SF pilots: Babylon Fields, an hour-long zombie-themed comedy-drama, and Twilight, a drama about a vampire private eye who's dealing with the fallout from being immortal.
- Literary Kicks says Books are Too Damn Expensive.
- Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy will host Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier, a History Channel documentary special that will take a look at the 40-year history of the venerable SF franchise, on Feb. 19 at 9 p.m. ET.
- Make shows us How to make an invisible book shelf.
- A few new additions to the list of sf/f authors who blog: James Barclay, Jeffrey Carver, Paul Di Filippo, Mark Morris, Susan Palwick, Brian Ruckley, Ryk E. Spoor and Steph Swainston.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 12:02 AM
© 2007 SF Signal
Twilight!? Oh, for God's sake, Forever Knight meets Angel. Note, from the SciFi Wire page, "the central character contends with foes in the vampire world and a budding love for a mortal."
As to books costing too much, I disagree. The price cited, $28.00 for a hardcover, in 2006 dollars, equals slightly less than $5.00 in 1967 dollars. I use 1967 dollars because that's the year I graduated from HS and started spending my own money on things like books. As I recall, $5-$6 is about right for a hardcover novel in that era. This compares with the current price of a paperback, mass market original for $8 2006 dollars being equal to about $1.40 in 1967 dollars. This also seems about right, given the respective average page counts. As I recall, the mid-60s marked the rise of the $1.25 and $1.50 mass market paperback. I still have a 1966 edition of Stranger In A Strange Land that cost 95 cents. Of course, that was when I was working as a gofer at Franks Nursery for 75 cents an hour.
Posted by Tim Morris on Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 9:35 AM
Thanks for the heads up on the Star Trek documentary, that will be a must see!!!
Posted by Carl V. on Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 10:18 AM
My problem is that while 1967 books prices have been translated into 2007 book prices, my salary has been translated from a 2003 range to a 1995 range.
And they say time travel is impossible.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Tuesday January 30, 2007 at 11:54 AM