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of the Woodwork 146. January 2009
Welcome to our newsletter, it contains up to the minute news and gossip as well as awards details and items requiring help from the collective consciousness. If you wish to contribute please do so! We welcome your thoughts, your news items and any gossip! We do love a bit of gossip here at Fantastic HQ The author Terry Pratchett - whose novels have sold millions of copies worldwide - has been made a knight in the New Year Honours list. The writer, 60, who is best known for his hugely popular Discworld series of comic fantasy novels, received the honour for services to literature. Full BBC profile Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role. At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981. I must admit we are a tad disappointed and had hoped for either the first black Doctor or the first female Doctos. C'est la vie! Full BBC story and interview (but we were right - Russell Brand missed out!) Donald E Westlake died 31st december 2008, writer of some spectacularly good mysteries and thrillers, including the screenplay for "The Grifters" Donald E. Westlake was a prolific writer of mysteries and thrillers, with a handful of screenplays (and an Academy Award nomination) to his credit. But he was much more than that. He could be one of the funniest, most hilarious entertainers in the writing business, yet at the same time could hammer out some of the bleakest, most hardboiled prose of his or any other generation. Independent obituary Star Wars - the musical set to open in London April 2009. - Star Wars fans are to feel the force of the seminal sci-fi films and their iconic soundtracks on stage in a major new show, which will launch next year. In Star Wars: A Musical Journey, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will play a live score as excerpts from the six films are shown on a cinema screen. The show has been put together by director George Lucas' company Lucasfilm and composer John Williams. It will premiere at the O2 arena in London in April before a European tour. You know, I might well be tempted! Barack Obama to star in Spidey Comic. US President-elect Barack Obama is to appear on the cover of a special edition of a Spider-Man comic. A six-page story, with the superhero saving the day when an imposter tries to take Mr Obama's place as president, will hit shelves Wednesday 15th January. Full BBC story The British Fantasy Society is pleased to be able to host the UK launch of Poe, a new anthology from Solaris that celebrates two hundred years since the birth of Edgar Allan Poe. The book features "remixed and reimagined" versions of Poe’s tales by such talents as: Pat Cadigan, Sharyn McCrumb, Kim Newman, Lucius Shepard, M. Rickert and Nicholas Royle. This free event will be held at the historic Ye Olde Cock Tavern on London’s Fleet Street. Ellen Datlow will be on hand to present readings by Pat Cadigan, Kim Newman and Nicholas Royle with copies of the book available for purchase and signature. POE: UK LAUNCH AND SIGNING The winner of the 2008 Dwarf Stars Award, presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association for the best short speculative poem of 10 lines or less, has gone to Greg Beatty for "Place Mat by Moebius", published in Asimov's SF, January 2007. Second and third place went to Sonya Taaffe and Ann K. Schwader. Details are listed on the SFPA website HarperCollins will publish the previously unseen The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, J.R.R. Tolkien's narrative-verse retelling of the Norse legend of Sigurd the Völsung. Tolkien wrote the poem during the '20s and '30s while teaching at Oxford, before he wrote The Lord of the Rings. The book, edited and with an introduction by the author's son Christopher Tolkien, is scheduled for a May 2009 hardcover release. Harper Collins Preliminary Nebula Award ballot - SFWA Novels:
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