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SFFMedia grows a little more

Category: Something else to say

20 April 2010

Gerard Wood

It's been some time since I've visited this page, let alone updated it. I see that I promised a review of Robert Holdstock's final novel, Avilion, months ago. It hasn't happened - sadly, the novel lacked the power of the earlier novels in the Mythago Cycle and it simply didn't hold my attention. I may give it another go sometime. We'll see.

There have been some important developments for SFFMedia in recent weeks, most significant of which is that we outgrew yet another server and were brought to our knees yet again by a ruthless Web Host. The upshot is that we've made the move to a dedicated server with heaps of room to grow and (we hope) the resources to cope with those massive surges in traffic we get.

Publishers Simon and Schuster have sent us a review copy of Jane Slayre, "co-authored" by Sherri Browning Erwin and Charlotte  Brontë. The latest in a fairly new literary mash-up genre, Jane is reimagined as a vampire slayer and Mr. Rochester's wife as a werewolf. This could be fun if the language and conventions of Brontë's classic are captured and allowed to work alongside the outrageous new angle. We'll let you know.

A review copy of Merlin, Season One, has made its way to us from Warner Bros. I haven't watched much of this series before, although it has many of the ingredients that normally appeal to me. I can only hope it's better than Dominic Minghella's Robin Hood, which is the last series Warner Bros. sent us... A review is forthcoming!

I picked up the Ltd Edition of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere not so long ago. It's said to be Gaiman's preferred text and I'm tempted to write something about how it compares to the earlier version of the novel and to the TV series on which the novel is based. Any opportunity to write about Gaiman's work is worth taking.