Monthly Archives: December 2013

Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor

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"Doctor Who - The Time of the Doctor".

“Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor”.


Title: Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor
Starring: Jenna-Louise Coleman, Matt Smith
Director(s): Jamie Payne
Producer(s): Marcus Wilson
Music: Murray Gold
Studio: BBC
Original Broadcast Channel: BBC America, BBC One, Space
Original Airdate(s): December 2013
Series: Doctor Who
Number in Series: 2013 Specials
Language: English

Raygun Chronicles – Space Opera for a New Age – edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

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"Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age" edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.

“Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age” edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.


Title: Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera for a New Age
Editor(s): Bryan Thomas Schmidt✓
Cover Artist: Paul Pederson
Language: English
Publisher: Every Day Publishing
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 0988125765
ISBN-13: 9780988125766
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
   “Essay: Taking Back the Sky” by Johne Cook
   “Frontier ABCs: The Life and Times of Charity Smith, Schoolteacher” by Seanan McGuire
   “Rick the Robber Baron” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
   “To the Shores of Triple, Lee!” by A.M. Stickel
   “The Silver Dollar Saucer” by Lou Antonelli
   “Around the Bend” by Sarah A. Hoyt
   “Sword of Saladin” by Michael S. Roberts
   “Malfunction” by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks
   “Catastrophe Baker and the Ship Who Purred” by Mike Resnick
   “Holly Defiant” by Brenda Cooper
   “Shooting the Devil’s Eye” by Keanan Brand
   “Last, Full Measure” by A.M. Roelke
   “Spider on a Sidewalk” by Paula R. Stiles
   “King of the Galaxy Knights” by Robin Wayne Bailey
   “The Slavers of Ruhn” by Rob Mancebo
   “Can Giraffes Change Their Spots?” by Jenny Schwartz
   “Captain Quasar and the Insurmountable Barrier of Space Junk” by Milo James Fowler
   “Conversion” by Shaun Farrell
   “Twilight World” by A.C. Crispin
   “Catastrophe Baker in the Hall of the Neptunian Kings” by Mike Resnick
   “Ever Dark” by T.M. Hunter
   “Nor to the Strong” by Michael Merriam
   “Space Opera” by Peter J. Wacks
   “The Heiress of Air” by Allen M. Steele
   “Saint Orick” (The Golden Queen) by David Farland✓
   “The Legend of Rae Raygun” poem by Kaolin Fire

Coffee – 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic – edited by Alex Shvartsman

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"Coffee - 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic" edited by Alex Shvartsman.

“Coffee – 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic” edited by Alex Shvartsman.


Title: Coffee – 14 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic
Editor(s): Alex Shvartsman ✓
Cover Artist: Emerson Matsuuchi
Interior Artist(s): Maggie McFee
Language: English
Publisher: UFO Publishing
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 0988432838
ISBN-13: 9780988432833
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Contents:
   “Foreword” by Alex Shvartsman
   “At the Everywhere Café” by A.C. Wise
   “The Perfect Book” by Ken Liu
   “Toilet Gnomes at War” by Beth Cato
   “The Seven Samovars” by Peter Sursi
   “The Civet Whisperer” by James Beamon
   “From the Shores of Tripoli” by Jonathan Shipley
   “A Darker Brew” by Teri Babcock
   “The Cup of Truth” by Matt Mikalatos
   “Dungeon and Dental Plans” by Tim McDaniel
   “The Man Who Heard Doughnuts” by Oliver Buckram
   “The Coffeemaker’s Passion” by Cat Rambo
   “Caution: Contents Hot” by E.C. Myers
   “Sexiest Fun Time Drug” by Katherine Sparrow
   Ghost in the Coffee Machine” by Charity Tahmaseb

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show – Big Book of SF Novelettes – edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert

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"Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show Big Book of SF Novelettes" edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert.

“Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show Big Book of SF Novelettes” edited by Orson Scott Card and Edmund R. Schubert.


Title: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show – Big Book of SF Novelettes
Series: Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show
Number in Series: n/a
Author(s): Aliette de Bodard, Orson Scott Card, Jackie Gamber, Stephen Kotowych, Mary Robinette Kowal, Marina J. Lostetter, Jamie Todd Rubin, Edmund R. Schubert, Greg Siewert, Eric James Stone, Brad R. Torgersen, Wayne Wightman
Editor(s): Orson Scott Card, Edmund R. Schubert
Cover Artist: Howard Lyon
Language: English
Publisher: Hatrack River
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 1494390957
ISBN-13: 9781494390952
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Edmund R. Schubert
   “Sojourn for Ephah” by Marina J. Lostetter
   “Brutal Interlude” by Wayne Wightman
   “Under the Shield” by Stephen Kotowych
   “Hologram Bride” by Jackie Gamber
   “The Curse of Sally Tincakes” by Brad R. Torgersen
   “The Absence of Stars” by Greg Siewert
   “Making Ender Smart” by Orson Scott Card
   “Mazer in Prison” (Ender Universe) by Orson Scott Card
   “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer” by Jamie Todd Rubin
   “Body Language” by Mary Robinette Kowal✓
   “Tabloid Reporter to the Stars” by Eric James Stone✓
   “On Horizon’s Shores” by Aliette de Bodard

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" - Ben Stiller version.

“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” – Ben Stiller version.


Title: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Starring: Ben Stiller
Director(s): Ben Stiller
Producer(s): Stuart Cornfeld, John Goldwyn Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Ben Stiller
Music: Theodore Shapiro
Studio: New Line Cinema, Red Hour Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Twentieth Century Fox
Released: December 2013
Language: English
Notes: Based on the short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber.

The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug

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"The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug"

“The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug”


Title: The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug
Starring: Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Benedict Cumberbatch, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Evangeline Lily, Ian McKellan, James Nesbitt, Lee Pace, Ken Stott
Director(s): Peter Jackson
Producer(s): Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Zane Weiner
Music: Howard Shore
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, New Line Cinema, Wingnut Films
Released: December 2013
Series: The Hobbit series, Middle-Earth series
Number in Series: 2 (two), 5 (five)
Language: English

Saving Mr. Banks

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"Saving Mr Banks".

“Saving Mr Banks”.


Title: Saving Mr. Banks
Starring: Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, Bradley Whitford
Director(s): John Lee Hancock
Producer(s): Ian Collie, Alison Owen, Philip Steuer
Music: Thomas Newman
Studio: BBC Films, Essential Media Entertainment, Hopscotch Features, Ruby Films, Walt Disney Pictures
Released: December 2013
Language: English
Notes: Tells a fictionalized version of the story of how the Mary Poppins film came about.

Dangerous Women – edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

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"Dangerous Women" edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.

“Dangerous Women” edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois.


Title: Dangerous Women
Editor(s): Gardner Dozois, George R.R. Martin
Language: English
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 076533206X
ISBN-13: 9780765332066
Contents:
   “Introduction” by Gardner Dozois
   “Some Desperado” by Joe Abercrombie
   “My Heart is Either Broken” by Megan Abbott
   “Nora’s Song” by Cecelia Holland
   “The Hands That Are Not There” by Melinda Snodgrass
   “Bombshells” by Jim Butcher
   “Raisa Stepanova” by Carrie Vaughn
   “Wrestling Jesus” by Joe R. Lansdale
   “Neighbors” by Megan Lindholm
   “I Know How to Pick ‘Em” by Lawrence Block
   “Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell” (Threnody) by Brandon Sanderson
   “A Queen in Exile” by Sharon Kay Penman
   “The Girl in the Mirror” by Lev Grossman
   “Second Arabesque, Very Slowly” by Nancy Kress
   “City Lazarus” by Diana Rowland
   “Virgins” by Diana Gabaldon
   “Hell Hath No Fury” by Sherrilyn Kenyon
   “Pronouncing Doom” by S.M. Stirling
   “Name the Beast” by Samuel Sykes
   “Caretakers” by Pat Cadigan
   “Lies My Mother Told Me” by Caroline Spector
   “The Princess and the Queen, or, The Blacks and the Greens” by George R.R. Martin

Seth Carter’s Alien Adoption by Fiona Ostler

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"Seth Carter's Alien Adoption" by Fiona Ostler.

“Seth Carter’s Alien Adoption” by Fiona Ostler.


Title: Seth Carter’s Alien Adoption
Series: Seth Carter
Number in Series: 1 (one)
Author(s): Fiona Ostler
Cover Artist: Kendall R. Hart
Language: English
Publisher:
Published: December 2013
ISBN-10: 0989931102
ISBN-13: 9780989931106
Notes: No publisher listed anywhere on or in the book.

The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug (extended)

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"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (extended edition).

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” (extended edition).


Title: The Hobbit – The Desolation of Smaug
Starring: Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Benedict Cumberbatch, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Evangeline Lily, Ian McKellan, James Nesbitt, Lee Pace, Ken Stott
Director(s): Peter Jackson
Producer(s): Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Zane Weiner
Music: Howard Shore
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, New Line Cinema, Wingnut Films
Released: December 2013
Series: The Hobbit series, Middle-Earth series
Number in Series: 2 (two), 5 (five)
Language: English