VZSciFi SF Merchandise Releases: June 2000

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June 2000 Merchandise Releases
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JUNE ANIME VIDEO
US: Lost Universe Volume 1
ADV Films/Approx. 100 minutes, Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-fi Stereo English Dubbed and Japanese with English Subtitles versions
When intergalactic private eye Millie Nocturne ends up on the block at a shady auction, her troubles are only beginning! Unwillingly partnered with Kain Blueriver, the cape-obsessed, psi-blade-bearing master of the Lost Ship Swordbreaker, and his lovely sidekick Canal, the saucy holographic image of his shipās master computer, Millie finds herself stuck taking on any assignment that will keep the bill collectors at bay. Unfortunately, since most of the team's assignments come from the mysterious Rail Claymore of the Universal Guardians, the crew of the Swordbreaker usually get stuck with the jobs so dirty that nobody else is willing to take them!
Lost Universe will also be available on DVD.
US: Sakura Diaries Chapter 2
ADV Films/ Approx. 90 minutes, Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-fi Stereo. English Dubbed
Since the red-hot redhead Meiko only hangs with college studs, Touma tells her he was accepted into Keio University. Now all he has to do is show up at classes he's not enrolled in and take tests he'll never pass. But preppy Mashu also has the hots for Meiko, and he's not buying Toumaās alleged academia. Love-struck Urara knows he's lying too, and she'll do anything to get Touma. But if she confronts him, will Touma come clean? Or will his anger take on a dangerous sexual edge? Find out, because in this second scorching chapter of Sakura Diaries, somebody's going to get burned. (Sakura Diaries Chapter 2 will also be available on DVD).
US: Spell Wars: Sorcerer Huntersā Revenge 3
ADV Films/ Approx. 90 minutes, Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-fi Stereo. English Dubbed And Japanese with English Subtitles versions
After a deadly confrontation with Big Momma's knights, Zaha Torte closes in on Carrot, using the young man's dreams to seduce him to Zaha's dark cause. So when Carrot's behaviour becomes increasingly rebellious, the Hunters are left to wonder: Is this misguided independence, or the beginning of a new, treacherous nature? Thus, Big Momma is forced to summon the Hunters home for a dinner where murder just might be on the menu.
US: Martian Successor Nadesico 4 - Deadly Encounters
ADV Films/ Approx. 60 minutes, Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-fi Stereo. English Dubbed and Japanese with English Subtitles versions
Akito finds himself the object of a romantic rivalry between Yurika and Megumi as the crew of the Nadesico fights battle after battle in defense of the Earth. An encounter with a mysterious girl almost leads to tragedy as Akito and the Aestivalis team must take on a new and even more deadly form of Jovian fighter!
US: GLO * RI * A 3
SoftCel New Release/ Approx. 35 minutes, Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-fi Stereo. Japanese with English Subtitles
All SoftCel titles contain adult situations, nudity and sex and are Intended for Adult Audiences only!
The young ladies of the Gloria family are such willing pupils that it makes teaching a joy for their new tutors. So Kira and Beowulf make sure each of the girls under their tutelage receives personal attention. However, despite the eager minds and bodies before them, things are looking grim for the teachers. Someone is out to ruin the family, and they don't care who gets caught in the crossfire. But the truth will out, and when Kira and Beowulf discover who's behind the plot to destroy their charges, thereāll be hell to pay. The women of the Gloria family won't be the only ones going down in the dramatic conclusion of GLO * RI * A!

JUNE AUDIO
UK: Doctor Who: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
by Nicholas Pegg. Featuring the Sixth Doctor, Evelyn and the Brigadier. Big Finish
UK: Doctor Who: The Ghosts of N-Space
Featuring the Third Doctor and Peri. BBC Worldwide
UK: Soundtrack CD: Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
Featuring the First Doctor, Vicki and Steven. BBC Worldwide
UK: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Millennium
by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens

JUNE DVD
UK: Farscape Vol. 3
(Season One) Contender
US: Lost Universe Volume 1
US: Sakura Diaries Chapter 2

JUNE GRAPHIC NOVELS
US: Provisional: Past Prime
by Matt Wagner. Wagner has recruited one of the hotter names in comics to write an illustrated Grendel novel (ala the format of the Hellboy novel). Entitled Past Prime, story and words will be handled by Greg Rucka of DC's Detective Comics and Oni's Whiteout, while Wagner provides a new painted cover as well as over 50 black & white illustrations.
"The story follows Susan Veraghen (from War Child and Homecoming) on her quest to locate the errant cyborg, Grendel Prime," explained Wagner. A tough and sexy action story, it establishes the long-running relationship between the main characters that was hinted at in Batman/Grendel II. Source: Comic Book Net EMag #249.
UK: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Hollower
Titan. £8.99/UK and Ireland only
UK: Danger Girl
Titan. £8.99/UK & Ireland only.
UK: Star Wars: Prelude to Rebellion
Titan /ISBN 1840231394/£10.99/UK & Ireland only.
Features first appearance of Jedi Knight Ki-Adi-Mundi.
UK: Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the cutting edge of comics
Titan. /£19.99/UK & Ireland only

JUNE MAGAZINES
Dreamwatch #71
Revamped and improved, the latest edition, on sale 29 June features a stunning Buffy cover plus some great interviews and features!

JUNE NOVELS
UK: On Basilisk Station
by David Weber. Publisher: Earthlight (Simon & Schuster) £5.99
First book in the Honor Harington series. Commander Honor Harrington of the Royal Manticoran Navy has been exiled by a superiror officer who she made to look foolish. Now she is in charge of an average light cruiser, patrolling a godforsaken quadrant, blamed by her crew for their exile...
Beyond Heaven's River book cover

UK: Beyond Heaven's River
by Greg Bear. Publisher: Victor Gollancz Millennium £6.99 Published 8 June 2000
Kawashita had passed up the chance to die honourably, to go down with the mortally wouned carrier Hiryu. And when the alien spacecraft plucked him from the sea near Midway, he was sure he'd made the wrong choice: now he would certainly die, but it would be alone and without honmour. But the aliens did not kill him. Instead, they gave him a world of his own, a world in which he was supreme master, able to recreate and alter history, to indulge in any fantasy. Then suddenly, he was once again amongst humans -- for whom World War II was a half-forgotten memory, four cneturies past...
UK: SF Masterworks 30: A Case of Conscience
by James Blish. Publisher: Victor Gollancz Millennium £6.99 Published 8 June 2000
Father Raimon Ruiz-Sanchez S.J. is part of a four man scientific commission to the planet Lithia, there to study a harmonious society of aliens living on a planet which is a biologist's paradise. He soon finds himself troubled: how can these perfect beings, living in an apparent Eden, have no concept of sin or God? And, if such a sinless Eden has been created apart from God, then who is responsible?
James Blish was born in New Jersey in 1921. Drafted during World War II he served until 1944 as a medical technician and on returing to the United States he re-enroled at Columbia and joined the Furutirains. Moving to England in 1969 he continued to write, and earned high praise for his adaptations of the original Star Trek series into short stories, working in a pre-video age and blending the original scripts with the final transmitted versions. He was the first author to have an original Star Trek novel, Spock Must Die, published, which is worth tracking down if only for its amusing discussions between leading crew members about the possibilities of teleportation in the creation of matter, which the series itself has always avoided!
UK: Fantasy Masterworks 6: The Chronicles of Amber
by Roger Zelazny Victor Gollancz Millennium £7.99. Published 15 June 2000 Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself -- Shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealoousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs.
In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from a freak accident; amnesia has robbed him of all his memory, even the fact that he is Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber, rightful heir to the throne -- and he is in deadly peril...
Here together in one volume are the first five books which make up the Chronicles of Amber -- Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn. The Hand of Oberon and The Courts of Chaos. Roger Zelazny was one of the pioneers of 'new wave' science fiction exploring evnts and characters internally rather than externally using psychology, sociology and lingusitics, often expressed using mythology as a structure -- Lord of Light being a classic example of this. He wrote over 150 short stories and 50 books, winning Nebulas and Hugos along the way. Zelazny wrote 10 books in the Amber sequence, a veritable feast of alternate worlds and magic, and today they are considered to be some of his finest work, influencing many readers. Zelazny died in 1995.
UK: A Civil Campaign
by Lois McMaster Bujold Earthlight (Simon & Schuster) £6.99
Hugo Award Nominee, the latest Miles Vorkosigan novel.
UK: Crown of Silence: Magravandias Chronicles Book Two
by Storm Constantine Gollancz Millennium £9.99. Published 29 June 2000 in hardback and trade paperback.
UK: The Immortal
by Roger Zelazny. Victor Gollancz Millennium
Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. He has also been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour around the shattered remains of Earth after a catastrophic nuclear war is not something he relishes. Especially when it rapidly becomes clear that he is at the centre of high-level intrigue that could determine the future of earth itself. But Conrad Nomikos is a very special guy and he's been around -- for a very long time.
UK: Mindbridge
by Joe Haldeman. Victor Gollancz Millennium
Jacque LeFarve is a tamer -- a member of one of the tough and honed exploration teams that, since the dramatic discovery of the Levant-Meyer Translation, humankind has been able to send to the stars. And Jacque's first world is the second planet out from Groombridge 1618. It isn't an especially promising place; the planets accompanying small stars rarely pan out. But the strange and mysterious creature that Jacque and his colleagues find there, with its gift of telepathy, leads to contact with the alien and enigmatic L'vrai and confronts humankind with an awesome opportunity -- and appaling danger... Described by writer Spider Robinson as "A genuine masterpiece".
Important Note: Ansible 158 revealed this yellowjacket' reissue cunningly follows the 1980s Futura edition which lost the final Chapter 53!
UK: Nostralia
by Cordwainer Smith. Victor Gollancz Millennium
The discovery of the stroom, a drug that confers near immortality on humans, has made Old North Australia rich. So rich that when Rod McBan has to flee the planet because someone wants him dead, he buys Earth. His picaresque adventures on Old Earth offer an exuberant, eccentric and wildly imaginative vision of the universe -- a vision like no other.

UK:Queen of Angels
by Greg Bear. Publisher: Victor Gollancz Millennium £6.99 Published 8 June 2000
In a world of wonders, wealth and 'perfect' metal health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder. Why? That crime and that question lead a biotransformed policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind -- into the nightmare soul -- of the psychopath himself. This is science fiction at its best: a detective story, a story of virtual reality entrapments and the coming of consciousness of an Artifical Intelligence.
UK: Sea Dragon Heir: Magravandias Chronicles Book One
by Storm Constantine Gollancz Millennium £9.99. Published 1 June 2000
UK: Tangents
by Greg Bear. Publisher: Victor Gollancz Millennium £6.99 Published 8 June 2000
Tangents was Greg Bear's second collection of short stories and includes two tales that won both Hugo and Nebula Awards: the title story Tangents, a remarkable account of contact with beings of another dimension, and the roiginal short version of contact with beings from another dimension, and the original short version of his classic novel Blood Music.
UK: The Wanderer
by Fritz Leiber. Victor Gollancz Millennium
All eyes are watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer came. Only a few scientists had even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly, it was there, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc with Earth's tides and weather. The huge, Garishly coloured artificial world had only stopped in the solar syatem to refuel but its mere presence is a catastrophe for the inhabitants of Earth, who all struggle in their different ways to survive the climactic chaos it unleashes.
UK: Doctor Who: The Banquo Legacy
by Andy Lane & Justin Richards. BBC Books. Featuring the Eighth Doctor.
UK: Doctor Who: The Heart of the TARDIS
by Dave Stone. BBC Books. Featuring the Second and Fourth Doctors, Romana.
UK: Star Trek -- Vulcan's Heart
by Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Sequel to Vulcan's Forge.
UK: Star Trek -- New Earth Book One: Wagon Train to the Stars
by Diane Carey
Set after Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first part of a six-part saga. Presented free with Star Trek Monthly #67
UK: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time
by Andrew J. Robinson
A diary, of sorts, of the enigmatic Cardassian Garak, written by the actor who played the role. Recommended!

JUNE VIDEO
UK: Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction and The Pilot Episode: An Unearthly Child
Featuring the First Doctor,Ian, Barbara and Susan. BBC Video
UK: Star Trek: The Next Generation -- The Defector/The Hunted/The High Ground
UK: Star Trek Voyager 6.4 -- Riddles/One Small Step

Sources: Doctor Who Magazine, Simon & Schuster, Victor Gollancz Millennium

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