At 4:00 p.m today Christopher Paolini, authour of Eragon, announced live on his website that there will be a fourth book in the Inheritance “Trilogy”, which will now be called the Inheritance Cycle. He also announced there would be a suprise ending to the third book which will come out on September 23, 2008. He said [...]

We set off early so there wasn’t a line up when we got there, which was likely a bad thing. I could have used more time to prepare. We made our way through the corridor created by the ropes on each side of us under the watchful eyes of the man behind the makeshift counter at [...]

Darth Vader, everyone’s favourite villian, will be in Winnipeg this weekend for the Manitoba Comic Con and Sci-Fi Expo. David Prowse, the man behind the mask and under the suit of Darth Vader will be a “media guest” available for questions from the media between 10 and 2 p.m. today.  Anyone with tickets can also [...]

A little while back I blogged about Project Gutenberg, the internet’s oldest producer of electronic books or ebooks, designed to let readers access classic public domain fiction for free on-line. DailyLit.com takes the idea one step further and sends bite-size portions of classic books via e-mail or RSS feeds to readers each day. The books are sent to [...]

Everyone in Winnipeg and possibly in Edmonton has likely heard about the collection of mostly science fiction and fantasy books, fan magazines and correspondence  donated by Winnipeger Chester D. Cuthbert to the University of Alberta.  Winnipeg media reported on the story last week as the collection, valued at about a million dollars and numbering some 60,000 [...]