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The Left Hand of Darkness Optioned for Film by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:19am

Screenwriter and director Will Phillips has optioned the feature film rights to Ursula K. Le Guin 's Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. The novel tells the story of Genly Ai, a human emissary to the planet Winter, a world where people are of no gender -- or both.

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Time to "Bone" up on Essential Graphic Novels by Wendy Warkentin - Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008 at 3:47pm

Join McNally Robinson Booksellers for the 2008 Manitoba Comic Convention at the Winnipeg Convention Centre October 11 & 12, 2008. We'll have tons of young adult fantasy books and graphic novels at the convention, but here are a few favourites on our shelves right now.

Categories: Reviews, buzz, Winnipeg, Graphic Novels

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Colfer to Pen Sixth Hitchhiker Novel by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:16am

There will be a sixth novel in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, entitled And Another Thing... and arriving October 2009.

"It's a gift from the gods," says Eoin Colfer, popular author of the comic children's fantasy series Artemis Fowl, "So, thank you Thor and Odin." Colfer's involvement was requested personally by Douglas Adams' widow Jane Belson. No details have yet emerged regarding the novel's plot.

Categories: buzz, SciFi & Fantasy

David Fincher to Direct Black Hole by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:37pm

David Fincher, acclaimed director of among other films, Fight Club and Zodiac has been attached to direct the live action movie based on Charles Burns' Harvey Award winning graphic novel Black Hole.

Originally serialized over ten years by Kitchen Sink Press and then Fantagraphics Books, Black Hole was finally collected in hardcover and now trade paperback by Pantheon Books.

Black Hole features a group of suburban Seattle teens in the 1970's who catch The Bug, an STD that causes physical mutations, some subtle, some grotesque. The alienated teens face prejudice and exile.

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Talking to Satrapi by Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:02pm

In the wake of the movie adaptation of her biography Persepolis' opening on Christmas Day, Marjane Satrapi was interviewed at Newsarama, along with her co-director Vincent Paronnaud.

Persepolis tells the story of Satrapi's childhood growing up in Tehran. A time that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime and the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.

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