Implied Spaces$24.95 add to cart

Walter Jon Williams has been successful for over twenty years in writing mostly hard science fiction while many of the genre's authors have turned to fantasy to satisfy readers. Part of that success has come from looking for places that no one else was writing, and finding, or creating a gap to fill. From his early cyberpunk-esque work Hardwired and the related novels, through the complex fantastic science-fiction of the Metropolitan series and the galaxy-spanning Dread Empire books, Walter's work has consistently asked us to look at how our philosophy shapes the world we live in. Nowhere is that more true than in his latest book Implied Spaces, new this month from Nightshade.

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Warner Brothers has tapped Rawson Thurber to bring Wendy and Richard Pini's creations to the big screen. Thurber, the writer/director for Dodgeball, will produce, write and direct the Elfquest fantasy feature. The Pinis, who started Elfquest by self-publishing it in 1978, have since seen their characters find homes at both Marvel and DC Comics.

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Science fiction author and critic Thomas Disch took his own life in his apartment on the 4th of July, 2008. Disch, perhaps best known for his work The Brave Little Toaster, published his first novel in 1965. He started his career as one of SF's new wave, which included such authors as Roger Zelazny and Michael Moorcock. The author had been struggling with depression following the 2004 death of his partner of three decades, Charles Naylor. Disch's novel The Word of God was just released.

Robert J. Sawyer posted a touching tribute on his blog.

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher$28.95 add to cart

UK author Kate Summerscale has been awarded the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The book revisits the murder of a three-year-old boy in Victorian England and a Scotland Yard detective's efforts to solve the case.

The prize, worth $60,000, is awarded annually to the best work of non-fiction.

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In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan has won this year's John W. Campbell Award for best novel. While Finistera by David R. Moles and Tideline by Elizabeth Bear received the Theodore Sturgeon Award for best short story.

Both the Campbell and Sturgeon Awards are selected by jury, and recognize the best science fiction novel and short story respectively, published in the United States.

The movie based on Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a cinematic masterpiece that will not be to everyone's taste.

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Stark A Novel$26.95 add to cart

Edward Bunker is one of the acknowledged masters of crime fiction. His varied and interesting life saw him become the youngest ever inmate of San Quentin at the age of seventeen, befriend authors such as Aldous Huxley and Tennessee Williams, and influence a generation of crime fiction devotees including Quentin Tarantino and James Ellroy. Stark, Bunker's first novel, was written in the late 1960's and discovered after Bunker's death in 2005.

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August long weekend (Aug 1-4),Gimli plays host to Manitoba's Icelandic Festival: Islendingadagurinn. Luckily, I was able to have a short email conversation with award-winning Icelandic crime writer, Arnaldur Indridason.

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