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Halloween Special: We Need Your Movie Suggestions!

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October is coming up mighty quick, and with it comes candy and middle-aged men and women dressed up as ninjas and creepy guys in masks with fake chainsaws to scare all the little kiddies… I mean, that’s not what we’re doing.  Then again, we’re not middle-aged… In any case, we really need your help for our Torture Cinema feature.  For the first time ever, we’re going to have a special  Halloween edition of Torture Cinema.  This means we need suggestions. If you know of any bad  supernatural or science fiction horror movies that you think we should watch and review, let us know in the comments, send us an email (skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com), send us a tweet, or look for our link on Google+ and leave a message. We’ll collect all of the suggestions and narrow them down to the five most popular selections.  After that, you all get to vote on one of them, which will result in Jen and Shaun kicking and screaming about your poor life choices. Now start your suggesting!

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Aliens: Will They Come For Us (in the Dark)?

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If you haven’t been paying attention to science lately, then you might have missed out on a lot of talk about why aliens might visit us.  Not to say hello and give us warp drives and all that fun stuff.  No.  They’ll show up to get rid of us, because we’re too dangerous to exist in the Milky Way. I have reservations myself (about the study, not humanity), but it’s a question we should really ask ourselves:  do aliens have a reason to get rid of us?  And what can we do to make ourselves less a threat to the galaxy (let alone our galactic neighbors)? So the question comes to you:  what do you think?

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A New Viking Amoeba Recruit from Erin Hoffman

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There’s nothing quite like terrifying your enemies by riding on the back of an enormous dragomaeba! Say hello to our new recruit! The Draekon of Foleris — Vohextra Naeglerian Strength 10; Intelligence 5 Special Ability: Fear (Vohextra must be blocked by three or more amoeba) (Sword of Fire and Sea by Erin Hoffman) For the record, our interview with Erin should be up on Monday (on schedule this time).  Cool, no?

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Coming Soon: Mirkwood — A Movie *About* Tolkien

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Cinema Blend recently reported (through The Hollywood Reporter, apparently) that a fictionalized account of Tolkien’s life called Mirkwood is currently being adapted for the screen.  Here’s an excerpt from the article: Steve Hillard’s book Mirkwood: A Novel About J.R.R. Tolkien, is being adapted into a feature-length film by EMO Films and producers Joel Eisenberg and Timothy Owens, The Hollywood Reporter writes. Amazon says that the work of fiction — which initially was blocked by Tolkien’s estate but has since resolved its differences — turns Tolkien into the hero of a story that takes place in our world and that of Middle Earth. It paints the author “as a man haunted by the very myths he rewove into his famous works” and “explores the blurred borderlands where ancient tales, lost heroines, and epic journeys are stalked by dim monsters that will not be still.” I don’t know about you, but this sounds really fascinating.  When I initially saw the article, I thought it was going to be a dramatization of Tolkien’s actual life.  Instead, it’s a fictionalized, fantastic account of his life.  That’s something I can get into. What about you?  Are you interested in Mirkwood?

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Eric Brown to Head Abaddon's Weird Space Series

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Abaddon Books has announced a new shared-world space opera series called Weird Space.   The series is set to begin in Summer 2012 with Eric Brown’s The Devil’s Nebula as the opening installment. Here’s the synopsis for the series and Brown’s introductory novel: Starship Captain Ed Carew and his crew of two – ex-marine Lania Takiomar and ex-convict Gord Neffard – lead a carefree life of smuggling, gun-running and other illicit pursuits in a far future ruled by the fascistic Expansion Authority. But when an Expansion judiciary ship captures Carew and his crew leaving the planet of Hesperides, an out-of-bounds world governed now by the fearsome Vetch extraterrestrials, Carew, Takiomar and Neffard are sentenced to death… Unless they agree to travel through Vetch territory in pursuit of an human colony vessel which set off for the Devil’s Nebula one hundred years ago. But why are the Expansion authorities so eager to track down the ship, will Carew and co. survive the journey through Vetch territory – and what might they find when they arrive at the Devil’s Nebula? The Devil’s Nebula is the first book in a thrilling space opera series, Weird Space. An evil race is threatening not only the human Expansion, but the Vetch Empire, too – an evil from another dimension which infests humans and Vetch alike and bends individuals to do their hideous bidding. And only if humans and Vetch cooperate to fight off the fearsome Weird do they stand a chance of ensuring their survival… Sounds interesting, no?  And the cover is bloody gorgeous!  Good on Abaddon for taking a shot at space opera!

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