The Fantasy Times

Motions on Best Semiprozine, Internet materials and Graphic Story Category were voted on at the general rules meeting.

Jim Baen’s Universe is closing after 4 years. They didn’t have the growth in subscriber base they expected. Full Story.

EA and Dark Horse have announced a Mass Effect comic to help bridge the gap between the ending of Mass Effect and the beginning of Mass Effect 2.

IESB is reporting that the Amazonian Princess, Wonder Woman, is back on the block at Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures. Late last year, Andrew Rona took over Silver Pictures and will be spearheading the Wonder Woman project with Joel Silver.

Patrick Rothfuss has been getting a lot of questions about why his second book is taking so darned long to get into the hands of his adoring fans.  He answers these questions, often put to GRR Martin, in his usual funny and succinct style.
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Robber holds up two 7-11’s with a Star Trek Klingon-type sword, called a “bat’leth.”

Neil Gaiman has posted the newest Coraline trailer in HD.  Coraline is due out in a couple of weeks and this is the preferred trailer for it.

A deal has been hammered out that that gives WB some face-saving points, but which gives Fox the equivalent of a movie star’s gross participation.

Warner Brothers’ plan to release Watchmen on March 6 may proceed after all as the studio and 20th Century Fox are in the thick of talks to settle the bitter dispute.

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