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MIND MELD: The 'Responsibility' of Cover Art

2008-06-05 00:29:05 by JP in SF Signal
 
...Ballantine/Del Rey released a major trade paperback edition of Michael Moorcock's Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone), featuring Picacio's cover and interior illustrations. He and his wife, Traci, live in San Antonio, Texas. For more info and pictures, please visit his website . I go into every cover...
 
Tags: art, cover art, equation, cover art equation, art director, nice fine art, art-show awards, video box art, box
 
 
 
 
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2008 Locus Award Finalists

2008-04-24 12:51:56 by John in SF Signal
 
...Ballantine Del Rey; Macmillan UK) FIRST NOVEL City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/McElderry Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Morrow; Gollancz The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz One for Sorrow by Christopher Barzak (Bantam Spectra) ANTHOLOGY The Best of Lady...
 
Tags: signal review, locus award finalists, ballantine del rey, simon, kelly link, gardner dozois, simon pulse, twentieth annual collection, guy gavriel kay
 
 
 
 
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RETRO TOY FLASHBACK # 72: Choose Your Own Adventure/Find Your Fate/Plot-Your-Own Adventure Books of the 1980s

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2007-12-10 06:51:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...Ballantine's "young adult line" offered several "Find Your Fate Adventures" for the character of Indiana Jones (at $1.95 a book) Among the titles were Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheba (by Rose Estes), Indiana Jones and the Giants of Silver Tower (by R.L. Stine), Indiana Jones and the Legion of Death (by Richard Wenk), and Indiana...
 
Tags: adventure, adventure books, books, adventure format, choose, favorite star trek, star trek, adventure -style books, indiana jones
 
 
 
 
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Elric: The Stealer of Souls

2008-01-12 01:08:05 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...Ballantine/Del Rey collecting Michael Moorcock's classic Elric novels This week, John shares the final cover design and it looks sweet. These editions come with new introductions, illustrations, and notes. Later this week, John will be sharing some of the interior illustrations I may have to follow the suggestions of folks and (finally) read...
 
Tags: elric, john picacio, john, classic elric novels, john shares, final cover design, interior illustrations, illustrations, trade paperbacks
 
 
 
 
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NOMINEES: 2007 British Science Fiction Association Awards

2008-01-23 00:18:33 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...Ballantine) [See SF Signal review Have Spacesuit, Will Travel by Robert A Heinlein (first published in F&SF, August - October 1958 Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss (first published by Faber & Faber The Big Time by Fritz Leiber (first published in Galaxy, March/April 1958 The Triumph of Time by James Blish (first published by Avon; subsequent UK title...
 
Tags: signal review, newcon press, dislocations anthology, james blish, cover, dislocations, alastair reynolds, ian mcdonald, british fantasy society
 
 
 
 
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The American Library Association's Reading List Awards

2008-01-26 00:44:06 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...Ballantine, 2007 Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, 2007 The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor, 2007 One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name (Baen, 2007 Axis by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, 2007) FANTASY The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Daw Books, 2007 Territory by Emma Bull (Tor, 2007 White Night by Jim Butcher (ROC/Penguin, 2007 Kushiel's...
 
Tags: american library, american library association, tor, list, list awards, books, spectra, bantam spectra, daw books
 
 
 
 
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What's It Going to be then, eh? A Clockwork Orange: Book to Film

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2008-02-09 00:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...Ballantine published edition prior to 1986, you have a copy of The Clockwork Orange that is twenty chapters long. The original British edition is twenty one chapters long. The American publishers felt the last chapter softened the impact of the story and excised it. Burgess was furious. When Kubrick started writing his screenplay he didn't...
 
Tags: film, book, chapters, twenty chapters, twenty, twenty-first chapter, american, film version, american version
 
 
 
 
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2008 Science Fiction Hall of Fame Inductees

2008-03-01 01:53:20 by John in SF Signal
 
The March issue of Locus Magazine announces this year's inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame William Gibson Ian & Betty Ballantine Rod Serling Richard Powers The induction ceremony with MC Connie Willis [insert beatbox sounds here] will be held on June 21st, 2008, in Seattle, in conjunction with this year's Locus Awards Weekend via...
 
Tags: science fiction hall, locus magazine announces, locus awards weekend, induction ceremony, fame, march issue, william gibson, locus online, june 21st
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: The Appeal of SF&F Art

2008-03-20 00:55:35 by JP in SF Signal
 
...Ballantine/Del Rey released a major trade paperback edition of Michael Moorcock's Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone) , featuring Picacio's cover and interior illustrations. He and his wife, Traci, live in San Antonio, Texas. For more info and pictures, please visit http://johnpicacio.com/blog.html . I...
 
Tags: science fiction movie, world fantasy award, science fiction, world, art, push science fiction, fiction, super-hero comic books, hero
 
 
 
 
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NOMINEES: Sidewise Awards for Alternate History

2008-04-28 12:12:30 by John in