Are there plans to have the Updated/Edited AC books in paperback form in the foreseeable future? The collectors limited editions are a little beyond my current situation.

Keith the Elder

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For Immediate Release

Noted Horror Writer Invites Readers Into The Keep.

San Diego, CA (June 21, 2005) The keep had stood empty in the Transylvanian Alps for some 500 years. No one knew who built it, or why. But on the eve of WW II, German soldiers moved in and awoke something—something hungry… something more merciless than the SS einsatzkommandos accompanying them. Author F. Paul Wilson, the creator behind the Adversary Cycle series and Repairman series, adapts his own New York Times bestselling novel. He is joined by artist Matthew Smith (Hellboy) on the first installment of the story that the Providence Journal called, “A battle between good and evil that staggers the imagination, with an ending as exciting as any horror fan could wish!”


Available in September, The Keep #1 will be the first issue of a five-issue miniseries.

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IDW PUBLISHING is a division of Idea + Design Works, LLC, a revolutionary creative service company with a wide range of clients. Among their best-selling titles are CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Konami’s Metal Gear Solid; and GrimJack: Killer Instinct. IDW has films in development at Sony Pictures, Dimension Films, and Paramount Pictures.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
16 June 2005

Infrapress is pleased to announce it will publish F. Paul Wilson's classic SF novel WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS. The edition will include stories "Higher Centers" and "The Man with the Anteater" as well as a new introduction by the author. This means Infrapress will now be issuing all the LaNague Federation fiction (three core novels and all the short stories) together, in three volumes, for the first time. Previously scheduled re-publication of the first and third novels -- AN ENEMY OF THE STATE and HEALER (each with related short stories) -- of the LaNague Federation series will be slightly delayed in order to issue all three books at the same time. These are the definitive versions as revised by the author.

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS, Wilson's second novel, won the first Prometheus Award for Libertarian fiction in 1979. The award helped pigeonhole the author as "that Libertarian science fiction writer" and Wilson consequently dropped out of SF and wrote horror thriller (and beginning of the Repairman Jack franchise) THE KEEP (1981). In 2004, after more than two decades of publishing horror, adventure, medical thrillers, and virtually everything in between, Wilson no longer needed to be concerned about labels and was again honored with the Prometheus Award for SIMS.

"Higher Centers" (published in "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact", April 1971) and "The Man with the Anteater" ("Analog", July 1971) were Wilson's first two published stories. The have never been reprinted

The Infrapress edition of HEALER includes short story "To Fill the Sea and Air"; shorts "Lipidleggin'" and "Ratman" are reprinted in AN ENEMY OF THE STATE. Both books include an introduction by the author.

HEALER and AN ENEMY OF THE STATE had been scheduled for July 2005 release. They will now be delayed until fall in order to issue all three volumes at the same time. Covers for the previously announced books can be seen on the Infrapress Web site (http://www.writers.com/publishing or http://www.infrapress.com) WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS will have a similar look. All three will be 6"X 9" trade paperbacks.

1) Healer (ISBN: 0-9766544-1-5) $15.95

2) Wheels Within Wheels (ISBN: 0-9766544-3-1) $15.95

3) An Enemy of the State (ISBN: 0-9766544-2-3) $17.95

I just got back from Batman Begins. All I can say is wow! This is the way the Dark Knight is suppose to be. Moody, very little comedy, decent story... everything was right with this.

That is except for Katie Holmes. For some reason her character was weak. It may have been that there wasn't enough time dedicated to her or it could be that she was just plain. I'm going to have to watch it again to decide.

But over all this is the way Batman was meant to be. If you have kids it might be a little scary for them especially when the Scarecrow starts infecting people.

Hello lads and lassies. I'm selling Fiction #4 on ebay:

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hi, this is lovecraft68 and i am brand new to the sight. i am a huge horror fan and the biggest thrill i ever got reading was when f. paul wilson put my favorite villian rasalom in with repairman jack my favorite vigilante. my question is in the haunted air it is mentioned by lyle about an upcoming darkness that will embrace all and jack has been told he is one of a handfull who will try to stop it. is this leading up to nightworld? i know these books were written after nightworld but was wondering if they take place before? or is there another big thing happening? only one small complaint i fell Rasalom is to powerful a villian to keep poping up in these novels lurking in the shadows and shaking his fist at jack impotently in the end(conspiracies) and one other thing i have not yet read all of the rmj novels(they have been ordered!) but Gia pregnant? am i the only one who kind of thinks this is a bad idea? anyway if someone could help with the question i would appreciate it! my e-mail is arsonist68@yahoo.com thanks for reading!

As I was watching the NBA finals last night (Go Spurs, not a fan just really really don't like the Pistons) ABC was playing ads for their new series, "The Nightstalker" It is a remake of the 70's Nightstalker with Darin McGavin.

It is being done by the creator of the X-Files Chris Carter so I am holding out hope it will be as good as I remember the original being.

I used to love that show.

Well, About two weeks ago I posted a thread about this arrival of this French import. I even had the audacity to proclaim the French as the savior of the horror genre. I highly anticipated this film, waited with bated breath to see the film that some said was a return to barebones horror and gore.

I read up on the film on Rottentomatoes.com, I knew there was a twist ending in the movie, a twist that reviled many viewers. A lot claimed they didn't get it, that the twist made no sense. I thought I could handle it, that I could figure it out and shame the many viewers who were dumbfounded by the smart and clever reveal. I thought that I could go on message boards and proclaim the writer a genius as I clearly explained what transpired; I am after all an educated fella.

Well color me fucked.

The film is first and foremost, initially, a BLATANT ripoff of INTENSITY by Dean Koontz. I suspected as much in the description of the film in the many reviews I read. What I did not realize is just how identical the film is to the book, how closely the events mirror Koontz's yarn.

The film takes place in southern France, two college friends Marie and Alexia (Alex) journey to the remote cabin home of Alexia's parents to study for finals. Fifteen minutes into the film the fun begins, unbeknownst to the viewer that in approximately an hour, the fun would come to a grinding halt.

If you have read Koontz's INTENSITY the events that follow will come as no surprise, but for those who have not read the book on which the movie borrows it's main action, this is for you...

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Marie meets Alex's family, as sweet and loving as a French family can be, practically welcoming Alex as a member of the family, her picture is already on the mantle of their fireplace.

With the meet and greet done, Marie calls Alex a slut, (Several times in this film), goes outside to smoke, sees Alex showering and watches a little to long then goes inside to masturbate while listening to American music on her headphones.

This is when the killer shows up and begins his assault on the family in what is a beautifully filmed, white-knuckle moment that clearly defines this throwback to slaughter films of the 80's direct to video era. The dispatches are heinous, vulgar and disgusting. Surprisingly though nothing that hasn't been seen in a Friday the 13th film. Obviously we in the states have received a watered down version which is far different from the original French release and the UK release aptly entitled Switchblade Romance.

Still, it is good to see the gore back on the screen, the likes of which haven't been seen since horrors 80's heyday.

Marie, finally done with her prolonged autoeroticism removes her headset in time to hear the carnage and discover the family, save for Alex, systematically slaughtered. She finds her friend gagged, bound and raped and promises to help her.

When the killer returns Marie hides as her friend is hauled off and tossed into the back of an old truck. Marie sneaks on board and is hauled off in tow to an apparent truck stop which is void of any truckers. Marie sneaks off the back of the truck as the killer fuels up and begs the lone attendant to call the cops as the killer enters. Marie hides in the back of the store and does her best to not be seen.

I will forego the rest of the explanation, suffice it to say the attendant bites the dust and there is more tense cat and mouse moments as hunter and hunted switch roles periodically throughout the film.

There is a misplaced car chase in which Marie flies after the truck in a sports car only to once again become the hunted as the sneaky killer ends up behind her in a scene ripped from the opening of Jeepers Creepers.

It is around this time that Marie, totally exhausted and fearing for her friends life, the friend she promised she would save, fights back and ropes the audience in making you want to cheer as she chooses her weapon and prepares to make a stand.

It is here where the twist is revealed, the very twist that I thought I could explain. The big twist will make your jaw hit the floor initially, but the shock only lasts a split second until you realize that you have been lied to and that the writers Aja and Gregory Levasseur have done the worst thing imaginable, they cheated.

The cheat is unforgiveable as it makes almost everything the viewer witnessed up until that point impossible, but the worst part is it makes you not care anymore. The twist has been done before and been done better, but even in the movie that obviously inspired such an insipid and out of place revelation, it had the same effect, it made the movie inconsequential.

That is exactly what happens here and all the tension and fear the film successfully built deflates like a blow up doll bitten on the neck in the throes of passion.

The cinematography, direction and music in the film are delightful and add to the anxiety in the film. There is, up until the twist, a ticking clock. The film sets into motion a chain of events that seem to play out in real time. It is borderline genius and creates a sense of impending doom, the heart rate definitely gets a boost while watching this film.

So is High Tension worth a look? Yes, but do yourself a favor and as soon as you think the movie should end, leave. Flee flee flee on gossamer wings and don't look back for that is the only way to enjoy this film.

The only other drawback aside from the revelation is that Lion's Gate obviously decided that a dub would be better than a subtitle, and someone in the ranks disagreed so they settled on a hybrid. The characters will be speaking English only to switch into their native dialect mid conversation. This happens periodically making the viewer wish the distributor would have setteled on one or the other. A minor distraction if one at all, depends on if you are a purist or not.

High Tension had so much potential and is definately worth a look, it was the first film that actually scared me in a long time, but that moment takes place at the beginning of the film long before the rug was pulled out from under me and the writers hazed me with urine and feces while I was down.

I would love to see the uncut French or UK release, maybe they will re;ease the full NC-17 version on DVD. I will be adding it to my collection because despite it's unforgiveable flaw, the movie was still a good scare and a fun throwback to the days where horror movies were R-rated and not witty, hip, clever, smart or any other adjective reviewers used to describe any film Written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven in the past decade.

If I had a star rating I would say 2 1/2 out of 5 for almost getting it right.

-Tony

It happened in Narita international airport. I saw this in morning news.

A lot of people were gathering around, screaming. Everybody has camera, and they took pictures. Sometimes it happen in Japan, but this time, this is a special moment. This is for June 29.

Check this, then you will know that reason.

http://wmp.mainichi-msn.co.jp/MSN/2005/0...0613_1.wmv

His name is Sam Bicke. He is furniture's salesman. He is too shy, so his sales ability is not good. He has an estranged wife and children. Sometimes he is paying a little alimony.

But she dislike husband and she said "I don't wanna see you."

He is lonely.

He watched Richard Nixon in TV news. He hated governments. His bad luck, his solitude, his state........He felt anger and got desperate. He put the blame upon governments.

Then, he decided....

Yeah, of course you know about this. We know history. He tried it, but as a result, he couldn't assassinate Nixon. This movie is not like "Jackal". This movie is about lonely guy. Sean Penn as Sam Bicke. As an actor's ability, he is perfect as much as "Mystic River" and "21 grams". Also, Naomi Watts's role is his wife, she changed her hair to black, she was cool like ice.

Ken V, if you haven't seen this movie, check this ASAP.


This is a based on true story.