My review for John Ringo's A Hymn Before Battle, the first novel of the Posleen War, is now available.

Here is the preview video for the new season of Dr. Who coming in 2010. We have a new Doctor, played by Matt Smith, and a new series runner, Steven Moffat. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Moffat does with the Doctor.

• Kelley Armstrong
  • Bitten (Otherworld, Book 1)
• Kage Baker
  • Rude Mechanicals
• Iain M. Banks
  • Transition
• Sam Bourne
  • The Final Reckoning
• Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Curse of Chalion (Chalion, Book 1)
• Cory Doctorow
  • Down and Out in the Magical Kingdom
  • Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
• Neil Gaiman
  • The Graveyard Book
• Robert Goddard
  • Name to a Face
• Graham Greene
  • The Third Man
• Peter F. Hamilton
  • The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy, Book 1)
  • The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy, Book 2)
• Simon Kernick
  • Relentless
• Stephen King
  • Under The Dome
• Tee Morris & Lisa Lee
  • Morevi (The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana, Book 1)
• Lawrence Lessig
  • Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
• Nathan Lowell
  • Full Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Book 3)
  • Double Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Book 4)
  • Captain's Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Book 5)
• Scott Lynch
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentlemen Bastards, Book 1)
  • Red Seas under Red Skies (Gentlemen Bastards, Book 2)
• Jack McDevitt
  • A Talent For War (Alex Benedict, Book 1)
  • Polaris (Alex Benedict, Book 2)
  • Seeker (Alex Benedict, Book 3)
  • The Devil's Eye (Alex Benedict, Book 4)
• Patrick McLean
  • How to Succeed in Evil: The Novel
• Hayao Miyazaki
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Volume 1)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Volume 2)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Volume 3)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Volume 4)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Volume 5)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Volume 6)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Volume 7)
• Karen Marie Moning
  
  • Bloodfever (Fever, Book 2)
• T. A. Pratt
  • Blood Engines (Marla Mason, Book 1)
  • Poison Sleep (Marla Mason, Book 2)
  • Dead Reign (Marla Mason, Book 3)
• Ian Rankin & Werther Dell'Edra
  • Dark Entries
• Matthew Reilly
  • Temple
• Alastair Reynolds
  • Revelation Space (Revelation Space, Book 1)
• John Ringo
  • A Hymn Before Battle (Posleen War, Book 1)
• Jeremy Robinson
  • Kronos
• Phil Rossi
  • Eden
• J. Daniel Sawyer
  • Predestination and Other Games of Chance (Antithesis, Book 1)
• Robert J. Sawyer
  • Flashforward
• John Scalzi
  • METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization
  • Zoe's War
• Karl Schroeder
  • Queen of Candesce (Virga, Book 2)
  • Pirate Sun (Virga, Book 3)
• Scott Sigler
  • Contagious
• E. E. "Doc" Smith
  • Triplanetary (Lensman, Book 1)
• Allen Steele
  • Coyote (Coyote, Book 1)
  • Coyote Rising (Coyote, Book 2)
  • Coyote Frontier (Coyote, Book 3)
  • Spindrift (Coyote, Book 4)
• S. M. Stirling
  • Against the Tide of Years (Nantucket, Book 2)
• Andrew Taylor
  • The American Boy
• J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings, Book 1)
• John Varley
  • The Presistence of Vision
• David Weber
  • On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, Book 1)
  • Off Armageddon Reef (Safehold, Book 1)
  • By Schism Rent Asunder (Safehold, Book 2)
  • By Heresies Distressed (Safehold, Book 3)
• H. G. Wells
  • The Magic Shop

The Finish like to say that Santa doesn't live in the North Pole, but instead in Lapland.

These two short films examine a long trade that takes part in the North.

Rare Exports, Inc.

The Official Rare Exports, Inc. Safety Instructions 2005

As you can see, these are very well made, professional, films. As a result of these shorts, they are now making a feature film. Here's the teaser trailer.

Snow View 1

Originally uploaded by Paul [W] Campbell

The book makers must be very nervous right about now.

There had been some puzzled questions asked as to why we had broken of for the Christmas holidays on Friday. Now, with the weather making travel more of a risk, I'm not going to complain. Looks great. Safe journey's to everyone who still has to go out into that today.

Having said that, I'll be out running about in it this evening at BMF. Assuming the roads between Inverkeithing and Pittencrieff Park are still passable. Then back to Inverkeithing for the DDS video night and Jason and Toni's. After a quick shower. To warm me up if nothing else.

Found this while trying to get Apple's screwy quicktime trailers to work.

Apple is both less and more evil than Microsoft. Microsoft are relatively honest about not caring about the multitudes of zombies they're force-feeding their crap into, while Apple rips off lots of Free software, gives nothing in return and talks about the user-experience and bla bla bla which is just another way for them to lock their users into a pretty prison.

-- isecore (August 25th, 2009 - Ubuntu Forums)

My review for the second Marla Mason novel from T. A. Pratt is up over at SFFAudio.com.

I like the look of this. With any luck they'll be filming a pilot episode for it early next year. And, yes, that's Sean Pertwee.

SLINGERS from Mike Sizemore on Vimeo.

Read more about it over at Topless Robot.

Dusty Guts

Originally uploaded by Paul [W] Campbell

Over the last few days my studio machine has started making even more noise that it normally does. I made the mistake of buying a machine with fans on the graphics cards, so even at its best, it was never silent.

Latest audiobooks from Tantor

Originally uploaded by Paul [W] Campbell

Had a bit of a trial getting the order for these placed, but I got there in the end. Unfortunately it'll probably be December before I start on any of these. The Scott Lynch title, Red Seas Under Red Skies, will be top of the pile.

The light reflection isn't great, so the titles are:

* The Steel Remains by Richard K Morgan
* Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
* Haze by L. E. Modesitt, Jr,
* Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton
* Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds