Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman have written Aziraphale and Crowley's New Year's resolutions. They're expected to be up somewhere at http://www.harpercollins.com/ just after Christmas in time for your own resolutions.
Robert Sheckley, a short-story and novel writer who was among the first to fuse satire with science fiction, creating a sub-genre called "galactic humor," has died. He was 77.
Sheckley, who had been fighting emphysema, died from complications of a brain aneurysm Dec. 9 at Vassar Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., said Ziva Kwitney, his former wife.
Considered a master of satire and irony, Sheckley also was one of the first science-fiction writers to give mechanical devices the ability to think for humans, according to a 2003 feature in Locus, a magazine that covers science fiction news.
"Ringers: Lord of the Fans" is here. First shown earlier this year on the big screen at Slamdance Film Festival and at the Newport Beach Film Festival, this documentary was quietly released on DVD at the end of November. It claims to be "by, about and for the fans" of professor J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginary world. Ringers is available on DVD at most major outlets and on amazon.com.
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