Category Archives: speculative fiction
X-Men Origins – Wolverine
Title: X-Men Origins – Wolverine
Starring: Danny Huston, Hugh Jackman, Dominic Monaghan, Ryan Reynolds, Liev Schreiber
Director(s): Gavin Hood
Producer(s): Lauren Shuler Donner, Hugh Jackman, John Palermo, Ralph Winter
Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
Studio: The Donners’ Company, Marvel Entertainment, Seed Productions, Twentieth Century Fox
Released: May 2009
Series: Wolverine, X-Men
Number in Series: 1 (one), n/a
Language: English
Dragon’s Heart by Jane Yolen
Title: Dragon’s Heart
Series: Pit Dragon
Number in Series: 4 (four)
Author(s): Jane Yolen
Cover Artist: Tristan Elwell
Interior Artist(s): Stephanie M. Cooper
Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: May 2009
ISBN-10: 0152059199
ISBN-13: 9780152059194
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year – Volume Three – edited by Jonathan Strahan
Title: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year – Volume Three
Series: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
Number in Series: 3 (three)
Author(s): Joan Aiken, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Holly Black, Richard Bowes, Ted Chiang, Greg Egan, Kij Johnson, John Kessel, Stephen King, Ted Kosmatka, Margo Lanagan, Kelly Link, Paul J. McAuley, Meghan McCarron, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Garth Nix, Holly Phillips, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, M. Rickert, Ken Scholes, Michael Swanwick, Rachel Swirsky, Jeff VanderMeer
Editor(s): Jonathan Strahan
Cover Artist: Fred Gambino
Language: English
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: May 2009
ISBN-10: 1597801496
ISBN-13: 9781597801492
Contents:
“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang
“Shoggoths in Bloom” by Elizabeth Bear
“Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel” by Peter S. Beagle
“Fixing Hanover” by Jeff VanderMeer
“The Gambler” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“The Dust Assassin” by Ian McDonald
“Virgin” by Holly Black
“Pride and Prometheus” by John Kessel
“The Thought War” by Paul McAuley
“Beyond the Sea Gates of the Scholar Pirates of Sarsköe” by Garth Nix
“The Small Door” by Holly Phillips
“Turing’s Apples” by Stephen Baxter
“The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates” by Stephen King
“Five Thrillers” by Robert Reed
“The Magician’s House” by Meghan McCarron
“Goblin Music” by Joan Aiken
“Machine Maid” by Margo Lanagan
“The Art of Alchemy” by Ted Kosmatka
“26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss” by Kij Johnson
“Marry the Sun” by Rachel Swirsky
“Crystal Nights” by Greg Egan
“His Master’s Voice” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“Special Economics” by Maureen F. McHugh
“Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter’s Personal Account” by M. Rickert
“From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled…” by Michael Swanwick
“If Angels Fight” by Richard Bowes
“The Doom of Love in Small Spaces” by Ken Scholes
“Pretty Monsters” by Kelly Link
Enemies & Allies by Kevin J. Anderson
Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George
Title: Dragon Spear
Series: Dragon Slippers
Number in Series: 3 (three)
Author(s): Jessica Day George
Cover Artist: Brandon Dorman
Language: English
Original Publisher: Bloomsbury
Originally Published: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: September 2010
ISBN-10: 1599905167
ISBN-13: 9781599905167
Dragon Spear by Jessica Day George
Title: Dragon Spear
Series: Dragon Slippers
Number in Series: 3 (three)
Author(s): Jessica Day George✓
Cover Artist: Brandon Dorman
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: May 2009
ISBN-10: 1599903695
ISBN-13: 9781599903699
The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún by J.R.R. Tolkien
Title: The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún
Content: The New Lay of the Völsungs (Völsungakviða en nýja), The New Lay of Gudrún (Guðrúnarkviða en nýja)
Author(s): J.R.R. Tolkien
Editor(s): Christopher Tolkien
Interior Artist(s): Bill Sanderson
Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: May 2009
ISBN-10: 0547273428
ISBN-13: 9780547273426
Notes: Based on the legends of Sigurd and the fall of the Niflungs from Norse mythology.
The Dragon Hunters by Paul Genesse
Title: The Dragon Hunters
Series: Iron Dragon
Number in Series: 2 (two)
Author(s): Paul Genesse
Cover Artist: Ciruelo Cabral
Interior Artist(s): Paul Genesse
Language: English
Publisher: Five Star
Published: May 2009
ISBN-10: 1594148252
ISBN-13: 9781594148255
Angels & Demons
Title: Angels & Demons
Starring: Pierfrancesco Favino, Tom Hanks, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ewan McGregor, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Stellan Skarsgård, Ayelet Zurer
Director(s): Ron Howard
Producer(s): John Calley, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
Music: Hans Zimmer
Studio: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
Released: May 2009
Series: Robert Langdon series
Number in Series: 2 (two)
Language: English






