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Daikaiju! contributor Eric Shapiro -- has just announced the publication of his latest novel. Here's what he had to say about it: "Upon
our last encounter, in the pages of It's Only Temporary,
we found a civilization that was collapsing in fast-forward, and
there wasn't much we could do about it. But the good thing about
writing is, even if you end the world, you can always bring it back
again. Signed copies are available from Shocklines, but you can also buy from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. |
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"Death is a place where the party's just getting started. That's the way Greensboro horror writer Stephen Mark Rainey sees it anyway...." So begins an interesting article on Daikaiju! contributor Stephen Mark Rainey in his local entertainment paper, YES, WEEKLY. Mark talks about horror, his writing career and, of course, Godzilla and co. Read it here. |
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Daikaiju! 2/3 contributor Michael Boatman has just learnt that Dybbuk Press will publish his horror/dark fantasy collection, God Laughs When You Die. It will be published in late 2006 to early 2007. |
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Daikaiju! and Daikaiju! 2 contributor Terry Dartnall's short story collection, The Ladder at the Bottom of the World, is now available as an ebook from Trantor Publications. See also: www.cit.gu.edu.au/~terryd and click on the picture of the Ladder at the Bottom of the World. The collection contains 31 of Terry's best stories, with graphics by R&D Studios and an introduction by Robert Hood. |
Daikaiju!2 contributor, Tony Frazier has sold a story to Baen's Universe. The story, titled "Astromonkeys!", features Digger, the main character from "Out of His League", his Daikaiju!2 story. |
Interior artist for Daikaiju! and cover artist for Daikaiju! 2, Todd Tennant, informs me that his Guidolon artwork will be used as part of Frank Wu's dramatic reading of "The Tragical History of Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken" (see previous entry). Todd comments: "I am very excited to see what comes from this, and hope some Hollywood 'suits' will also be there to sign Frank up! This would make a great 'campy' film, don't you think?" Yes, indeed! |
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Daikaiju! contributor Frank Wu will be doing a dramatic reading of his "Tragical History of Guidolon the Giant Space Chicken" screenplay (which appeared in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) at Loscon -- a sci-fi convention in Los Angeles at the LAX Marriott, this weekend (25-27 November 2005). The con runs Friday to Sunday, but the reading is Sunday 27 November at 2:30 pm. Frank hopes that any daikaiju fans in the LA area will come to the con and see the reading, "which will have props and everything!" |
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Daikaiju! 2 contributor Richard Becker's short story "The Revolt of the Ultraists!" will be appearing in the upcoming anthology Spicy Slipstream Stories, edited by Nick Mamatas and Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2006. |
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Daikaiju! 2 contributor Steven Cavanagh has a short-short piece in the Shadow Box charity horror e-anthology. It can be ordered from the Shadowed Realms website, with proceeds going to Mission Australia. Steven has also been accepted into the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild's anthology The Outcast, due to be release Easter 2006. |
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Daikaiju! 2 contributor Richard Becker ("The Return of Cthadron") sent in notice of the following:
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Daikaiju! contributor Andrew Sullivan has just sold a story, 'The Many-body Problem', to editor Damien Broderick at Cosmos magazine. It will hopefully be in the December/January issue. |
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Daikaiju! 2 contributor T.P. Keating hopes that you enjoyed reading his story [once it appears -- ed.], and says thank you to the editors for including it in Daikaiju! 2. Current news and more details about the author's pulp writing can be found at www.tpkeating.com. Or you can provide giant monster feedback via keatingwrites@yahoo.com. |
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A slew of good news from Daikaiju! 2 contributor Shane Jiraiya Cummings:
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Trent Jamieson, Chris McMahon and Jason Nahrung also have stories appearing in The Devil in Brisbane, a Prime Books anthology edited by Zoran Zivkovic, to be launched by Brisbane Lord Mayor Campell Newman at the City's writers' festival on September 29. |
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Paul A. Toth will join Todd Dills and Jeb Gleason-Allured for a reading at Hungry Brain on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 8:00 p.m. Location: 2319 W. Belmont, Chicago. Tel.: (773) 935-2118. Toth's second novel, Fishnet, was released in July. Jonathan Messinger of Time-Out Chicago wrote: "It's astounding how much pathos Toth packs into this strange, short novel. While the reader is busy contemplating the meaning of Mercy's decline and Maurice's imaginings, Toth slips in devastating sentences, the kind you hope to never hear about your own relationship." More information available at Toth's site. |
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Stephen
Mark Rainey has sold his novel, Blue Devil Island, to Five
Star Books; it will be released in mid- to late 2006. Blue Devil
Island is a WWII historical drama, set in the Pacific during
the Solomons campaign of 1943. A US Navy fighting squadron, stationed
on a remote island known as Conquest, discovers something a bit
more unusual than the Japanese. Although it's not Godzilla, something
on the island is distinctly larger than life... |
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Eric Shapiro's apocalyptic novel It's Only Temporary got off to a great start in July 2005. Visit www.itsonlytemporary.com to read reviews, interviews, and more ... |
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August 2005 British Fantasy Award nominee Sean Wright holds his hands up in claiming to have discovered this highly talented author, stating: "Sometimes an unknown writer comes along whose work stuns you. James Cooper is an original voice in fantasy/horror, a new author who possesses not only a powerful imagination, but one who can tell a story that really grips the reader socially, morally and politically and refuses to let go. The Midway is an important novel, and James Cooper is an important new voice -- one to be reckoned with." For more information visit: www.crowswingbooks.co.uk or the author’s own web site at: www.81x.com/jscooper/themidway |
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The anthology is to be published by Agog! Press.You can email the editors at <daikaiju@roberthood.net>but read this first!