Trailers like this make me wish that

1. That I was willing to pay for the most comprehensive cable plan, and that I could watch this any time soon.
2. That I had nothing better to do but watch British Sci Fi like this and Dr Who
3. 2 again.
4. 3 again.

via Next Read

The cross over between the video and on line gaming world to the Science fiction world is bound to happen now and again as both the gaming and sci Fi run along the same fantastical lines.
Eric Nylund seems to be at home in both worlds.
As Wiki says

Nylund is the author of three novels set in the Halo universe: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike and Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. He is employed as a writer for Microsoft Game Studios. His duties include the development of story bibles and other such fictional assets, the preparation of materials for marketing, and coordination with Microsoft localization, legal, and geopolitical departments.

In the 1990s he was hired by Microsoft to help rewrite and edit portions of Microsoft’s multi-media encyclopedia. Since then, he has written several novels based on Microsoft-published games, including the aforementioned Halo novels, and Crimson Skies, which was written collaboratively with Eric S. Trautmann.

Nylund has written many original novels as well, including Signal to Noise, A Signal Shattered and Dry Water

His latest book Immortal Coil, is waiting in the wings, to be released on February 3rd and sounds quite fascinating.

It is part one of a five part series, and this, the first book has no less than 608 pages an 82 chapters. Unlike other fantasy books, it is set in our modern world but deals with mythology like topics.

In a nutshell - it is about 2 15 year old twin teenagers that are being raised by their grandmother and her stark rules (very many of them - 106 to be exact). It seems as if all is not as simple as the initial layout, because the twins are the result of an affair between an immortal goddess and a fallen angel, and in order to keep them safe, there grandmother has to disguise them, and keep the truth from them. She manages in this task till their 15th birthday, at which point their Identity is disclosed, and both families get involved - trying to pull them over to their side (obviously they change the power balance - because until that point - those to groups - the gods and the infidels kept away from each other)
I have not read the book, only Robert Thomsons mouth watering review on Fantsay Book Critic, and I sugest you do the same.
You can read Eric Nylund’s official blog here.

This can’t come quickly enough for me. I somehow must have missed the book, but will rectify that shortly. No Matter how old I get, I will always love children’s fantasy, and always have.

To bad this wasn’t around when I was a child.

via Chris Roberson

Matt Smith is the young actor who will be the new Doctor Who.

I have spoken about Dr Who before and am glad that at least as far as this development goes I am not light years behind everyone else.
He will step into David Tennants Huge shoes.

Tennant announced the end of his Dr who stint last October, stating that 3 years in a part was enough, and although he loved the show and the Dr. he felt it was time to move on. The BBC Posted a Video with the new and old Dr Who’s speaking about the roll and show - each from their own perspective.

via Big Dumb Object

Next on my wish list : Implied Space by Walter Jon Williams.
any book that can be described in Bookgasm’s words

The book’s main character is Aristide, a researcher with a hugely distinguished past who is decades older than his body appears, thanks to memory-backup/body-switching technology that makes people nigh-immortal, able to restore themselves from a backup, should they die.

A little reminiscent of the Asgard’s from Star-gate, and Dr Who’s ability to change body’s when necessary thus living to a very ripe old age in a ridiculously young body is enough to catch my attention.

(not that I would personaly what that - For my own life I would go by enough is enough) but is does make for a good read.
For more of Ryun Pattersons review on Bookgasms click here.