All Men Must Read: A Game of Thrones premiere review!

All Men Shall Read: A Game of Thrones premiere review!

by Anastasia Bosakowski, Editorial Staff of The Science Fiction Book Club They promised us epic, and it truly was!
I got to go to the Game Of ThronesEpic Fan Experience at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn last night, and it was a blast. For a little background, this was an event that HBO threw together to give 7000 fans an advance screening the first episode of season 4 (the actually premiere was…

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Cover Story: Randy Gallegos

Cover Story: Randy Gallegos, Lunacon Artist Guest of Honor this weekend, his video demo and more @lunaconsf @gallegosart

The amazing art for last month’s catalog cover of The Science Fiction Book Club was painted by illustrator Randy Gallegos. The painting itself, Alieis,is an original oil painting and a very large painting measuring at 4′ x 6′. Randy has a career spanning the past 20 years having produced hundreds of pieces of art for the gaming and publishing industry. You may be familiar with his work from…

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On the Cover: Kari Christensen

On the Cover with illustrator @kariartwork Kari Christensen

I started the year off by featuring this piece of art by Kari Christensen for the member’s catalog of The Science Fiction Book Club. It’s a fitting image to start of the new year in a very science fictional way. The Last Human is one of the latest pieces by illustrator Kari Christensen.
I met Kari at New York Comic Con several years ago as he sat among hundreds of other artists in Artist’s…

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Concept Art Sketches for the Clone Wars Stories We Never Saw

The final batch of Star Wars: The Clone Wars made its debut on Netflix on Friday — and now, here’s a glimpse of what we might have seen if the show hadn’t been canceled.
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DreamWorks introduces its new alien characters in a short prequel film

The upcoming animated film Home is about a group of alien refugees who conquer the Earth. Instead of meeting them and their Steve Martin-voice captain through a trailer, we get a short film about their difficulty in finding a planet to inhabit.

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Brand new Captain America 2 concept art will make you pump your fist

You might even utter a “heck yeah” after witnessing the fiery glory of these eight new pieces of concept art from…

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A graph showing all the languages whose words invaded English

Languages are evolving, living things, a fact that this graphic that charts just which languages English has been taking its loanwords from over time makes clear. Read more…

Carrie Fisher Will Reportedly Be Filming Star Wars: Episode VII In London For Six Months

What you are about to read is based entirely in hearsay. However, it is also about Star Wars. I think we’re all willing to allow hearsay where Star Wars is concerned.
Follow me, here: Carrie Fisher will be appearing in an episode of the FXX comedy series Legit. The star of that show, Jim Jefferies, was a guest on Sirius XM’s Opie and Anthony Show. There, he told the show’s hosts what Fisher had…

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Maybe The Characters on Game of Thrones Can’t Keep Track Of Each Other, Either [Video]

This parody doesn’t expressly say that it’s about Game of Thrones, but…c’mon. It’s Game of Thrones.
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Preview The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon

John Harris has been one of my personal favorite artists since I began working at Tor Books 20 years ago. Of course I love the scale of his work—everything feels weighty and important—but it’s his ability to portray a future that seems simultaneously possible and dream-like that resonates with me the most. His paintings are never labored or overly rendered. Instead they invite the viewer to…

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