Posts Tagged ‘Alien’

Library Additions: Two Centipede Press Books

Friday, July 30th, 2021

Two more books came in from Centipede Press:

  • Boyett, Stephen R. The Architect of Sleep. Centipede Press, 2021. First hardback edition, #355 of 400 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. Really interesting novel about a man transported to an alternate earth where raccoons evolved as the planet’s sentient life form. Originally published as an Ace paperback original back in 1986 and became something of a cult classic, and I’ve sold a lot of PBO copies of this and Ariel over the years (and indeed, if you just want to read it, I have copies available). Recommended. This signed edition is already sold out from the publisher. I’m hoping this new edition prods Boyett into revising and finishing the still-unpublished sequel, The Geography of Dreams.

  • Foster, Alan Dean. The Director Should’ve Shot You: Memoirs of the Film Trade. Centipede Press, 2021. First hardback edition, #430 of 500 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, still in shrinkwrap. I haven’t read any Foster novels since one of the early Pip and Flinx books way back in my misspent youth, but this one interests me. As the king of media tie-in novels, from Star Wars to Alien to Krull, Foster has worked on a lot of big hits (and misses), and in this book he dishes on all the behind-the-scenes drama he witnessed in in his career. This signed edition is already sold out from the publisher.

    The white square visible on the front is a numbered card inside the shrink wrap that will get laid in when it’s opened.

  • I will have copies of both of these in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (currently in progress).

    H. R. Giger, RIP

    Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

    Pioneering artist H. R, Giger has died at age 74. Few other 20th century artists produced work so technically accomplished, pioneering, and disturbing (all at the same time) as his biomechanical paintings, which were mostly produced by airbrush. Even if Giger had never done the design for Alien, his work would still have been hugely influential. And few artists are able to open successful museums of their own work in their own lifetimes.

    Howard Waldrop and I Review Prometheus

    Monday, June 11th, 2012

    Over at Locus Online. It wasn’t as good as we hoped it would be.

    New Prometheus Trailer

    Sunday, March 18th, 2012

    The second trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is out:

    When this was first announced, it was disclosed that it was set in the Alien universe, but it wasn’t clear whether the xenomorphs themselves would make an appearance. After this trailer, I feel pretty safe in saying that they will.

    Howard Waldrop and I will review this when it comes out.

    Obituary Watch: Dan O’Bannon

    Friday, December 18th, 2009

    Dan O’Bannon, the screenwriter for Alien, the writer/star of Dark Star, and the director of The Return of the Living Dead has died at 63.

    That’s a pretty worthy legacy to leave behind…