I recently picked up on the cheap (gotta love Ebay) a Gauntlet edition of Gateways - it is hard bound and with the same dust cover as the limited edition but it is unsigned and with no Limitation page. Anyone know anything about this??

Thanks.

Icarus

I just saw this yesterday. Better than the average teen slasher, but not by a long shot. For anyone looking for more than what you see in the previews you'll be disappointed. If you expect gore, you'll be getting what you paid for.

The 3D was pretty cool, they laid it on thick in the beginning, particularly. The premise is Harry Warden, a mine worker, gets trapped with a group of others after the teenaged son of the owner forgets to 'bleed the lines' (whatever that means) and there is a methane explosion. All but Warden die and it is soon revealed after they are recovered that it wasn't because of the collapse. Warden killed the others to conserve oxygen, but still wound up in a year-long coma. He wakes up and immediately kills everyone in the hospital and goes back to the mine to continue his work. There also happened to be a party of teens at the mine and he slaughters each as they file in. The owner's son comes with his girlfriend and everybody but those 2 and another couple are killed before the police get there, shoot warden a few times, and chase him farther into the mine.

Cut to a decade later, the owner's son has died and junior comes back to town to sign the final paperwork to sell it. Of course the killings pick up again as soon as he sets foot on the town's soil. Bleepity-blah a bunch of people die in much the same manner as they did all those years ago, the owner's son tries to semi-pick up on his former squeeze who's married another dude and popped out a tyke, but things are obviously very awkward as he just vanished after the initial mass murders.

There were some good scares, with decent use of the 3D, like the killer, dressed in his miner's garb, complete with face mask and lighted helmet pops through a window to reach for the babe of the hour and throwing his pike at some poor, unsuspecting victim. The only spot where I would say it disappointed is where it turns into another teen slasher and has [SPOILER]the two main suspects screaming at the girl that the other guy is the killer [/SPOILER]and just before that when the one guy [SPOILER]says how one of the victim's was killed[/SPOILER] and the girl asks, "[SPOILER]How do you know that[/SPOILER]?" and the guy answers, "[SPOILER]You told me[/SPOILER]," and it is so obvious by the look on both their faces that that SO did not happen.

But it was a fun movie. Take the missus and she should jump into your arms a few times. Unless she's like my steely, coal-eyed wife. She could have taken the killer in a best of 3.

from PW:

Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities F. Paul Wilson. Forge, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1277-8
Bestseller Wilson (By the Sword) displays an expert grasp of storytelling mechanics and an impressive breadth of themes and approaches in what he says in an afterword is his last collection. The title tale is a moving meditation on love and loss, built on the unlikely premise of lightning-strike survivors seeing the spirits of their dear departed at their near-death moment of electrocution. “Dreams” riffs on the Frankenstein theme with its speculation on how the monster might act were its brain to have retained aspects of its predeath personality. In “Interlude at Duane's,” urban mercenary hero Repairman Jack must foil a four-man holdup with found weapons fashioned from consumer goods on the shelves of the drugstore where it takes place. In all these efforts, Wilson establishes characters with a few deft strokes, quickly sets up a tricky plot, and then masterfully maneuvers the reader to a well-orchestrated (and sometimes surprising) ending. Fans will hope they haven't seen the last of Wilson's short fiction. (Mar.)

Just saw the flick last night with me buddies Claude and Mitch. I thought the actors were great, but the script was weak. People just don't behave the way they did in the flick. Example: The bad guys pull up to Tom's house and throw his son out of the car. "Look what we found!" Threat implicit. Tom had a shotgun in his hands. He's gonna =put it down=? How about, "Jack!--just walk away from them. You! Make a move to hurt my boy and I =will= kill you. Honey--call Sam! Call Sam!"
The whole flick was like that. Jack's transformation from a wimp to a butt-kicking badass?
I just didn't believe it.

Eh...maybe.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810003872/video/11535999

Wireless electricity is now a reality, apparently:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/132/brilliant.html

I just thought I'd post this to show my fanboyishness. What you will see is actually the third reprinting of this same thread in its most recent location. The original was five years ago on RottenTomatoes.

http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/to...ml#msg4142

Why the hell not?

Here's the first meeting between Glaeken and Rasalom:

http://repairmanjack.com/support files/Demonsong-set.rtf

FYI: A new edition of The Touch has been published in Germany.

Just catching up on my current events and saw that Heath Ledger won the Golden Globe for Dark Knight (best supporting actor).

Does he deserve the Oscar?

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