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Where No X-Man Has Gone Before
Posted on 06.25.09 by Greg Hyatt @ 6:39 pm
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sttng xmen book cover

What if Gene Roddenberry and Stan Lee had an ugly-ass baby?

ScottC's Note: Everyone, please welcome guest columnist Greg Hyatt. When asked to describe himself, this is what he said: "I was sent from the distant future to prevent a devastating war between humanity and bionic Civil War re-enactors, Stranded in the past after the completion of his mission, I currently resides in Kansas City where I enjoy superheroes, '80s cartoons and New Wave music."

There have been Star Trek novels for decades. And in the nineties, Marvel Comics made sure their characters were everywhere. We got animated series, action figures, trading cards, Pogs, and novels.

Marvel also had the Star Trek license in the nineties. Which means not only did we get a line of Trek comics, we got special issues like Star TreX and Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact.

And that second title is where Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Planet X comes in. The novel is a sequel to the comic, which takes place moments after the end of the film First Contact. The crew of the Enterprise-E didn't make it back to their time on their first attempt. They were actually thrown back to the then-present Marvel Universe where they teamed up (after a brief battle) with the X-Men. There are problems with the timeline and Kang the Conqueror asks (orders) the two groups to repair them.

Of course they do and the Enterprise crew returns to their time. (After all, you can't alter the status quo even slightly in a licensed product!)

[[ Continues ]]

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Happy Birthday, John Hodgman
Posted on 06.03.09 by Widge @ 3:05 pm
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Historians have long debated the actual birthdate of Prof. John Hodgman. Some place it as February 29th, some as Arbor Day, and there is at least one who states that Hodgman has always existed and was never actually "born"--but the current consensus among scholars is that it is June 3rd. So we say a good evening to one of the world's greatest historians. Why is he great? Because he knows his own birthday--and all of these other historians must simply debate the matter. That is concrete proof.

Here we have his classic tale of Hobo Matters:

Direct link for the feedreaders.

This was taken, of course, from the audiobook of The Areas of My Expertise. The bad news is that due to a hobo conspiracy, it is no longer in print. The good news is that despite their best efforts, the dark forces that control the earth have not destroyed all the copies and you can still snag it.

[[ Another vid down here... ]]

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Robert Anton Wilson's Website Relaunched
Posted on 05.19.09 by Widge @ 11:30 pm
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Robert Anton Wilson is Watching

So Christina, the daughter of Chazzie Lifetime Achievement Award winner Robert Anton Wilson (who is partly responsible for this madness of a website here--yes, blame a dead man, go ahead, he won't care) has relaunched Prof. Wilson's official website. Also some news that she's putting together an auction of his stuff to help settle some final debts of his. So we tried to get everybody to rally to his aid while he was still with us, we don't want to leave Christina in a lurch either. So we'll try to keep you posted on when the auction goes live.

In the meantime, check out the site--because the quote front and center is one of the best things you'll read this week.

Found via Boing Boing.

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Harlequin Turns 60; Should Have Celebrity Readers More Often
Posted on 05.03.09 by Widge @ 3:51 pm
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We're no strangers to Harlequin Romances around here. At least from the standpoint of advising them (for free) of new alliances they could make in addition to the one they've done with NASCAR. But ABC News has done something that we only wish we could have done at the time: got a guy from NASCAR to do a reading from one of those books. And indeed, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and even Wolfgang Puck (among others) give their own particular dramatic spin on some Harlequin prose. And as interesting as this genre of books is and its number one publisher, it's the readings that sell this piece. Sit through the whole thing.

Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via The Consumerist.

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Gaiman's Video Audiobook of The Graveyard Book
Posted on 04.05.09 by Widge @ 3:03 am
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Neil Gaiman on his Graveyard Book tour

We've talked before about how Neil Gaiman is a great reader. It's not just his cool accent, it's the way he gives his characters distinct voices ("he do the book in different voices") and knows just where to put the emphasis and the darkness...it's all good. I've also recommended, wherever possible, catching him doing a live reading--because those are fantastic.

As Neil pointed out on Twitter (and I somehow missed this announcement), he read a chapter at each of some stops on his Graveyard Book tour in October, and the result is you can watch him read the entire freaking book on his Harper Collins website. Nice, huh?

Once you get done with that you'll want to snag either the Graveyard Book audiobook or some of his other audiobooks. Excellent, all.

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