VZSciFi SF Merchandise Releases: November 2000

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NOVEMBER AUDIO CD
• UK: Doctor Who: The Holy Terror
Big Finish Audio CD featuring 6th Doctor and Frobisher, the shape-changing Whifferdil featured in many Doctor Who Magazine comic strips.

DVD
• UK: Thunderbirds - Episodes 17 To 20
Carlton Episodes: The Man From MI.5; Cry Wolf; Danger At Ocean Deep; Move - And You're Dead
• UK: Thunderbirds - Episodes 21 To 24
Carlton Episodes: The Duchess Assignment; Brink Of Disaster; Attack Of The Alligators!; Martian Invasion
• UK: Thunderbirds - Episodes 25 To 28
Carlton Episodes: The Cham-Cham; Security Hazard; Atlantic Inferno; Path Of Destruction
• UK: Thunderbirds - Episodes 29 To 32
Carlton Episodes: Alias Mr. Hackenbacker; Lord Parker's 'Oliday; Ricochet; Give Or Take A Million

Anime
• US: Lost Universe: Volume 3
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 100 minutes; Digitally Mastered DVD $29.98
Kain, Canal, and Millie continue their zany adventures. While the Universal Guardians handle most of the peacekeeping in the galaxy, trouble contractor Kain and his crew aboard the Swordbreaker always seem to get stuck with the assignments that nobody else wants. As always, they usually complete their missions, but their methods of operation are a little unusual to say the least. Along with the usual mayhem, in Ultimate Weapons the crew of the Swordbreaker is faced with one of their worst nightmares. The ship's only bathroom is lost in a giant maze!
• US: Samurai X: Betrayal / Rurouni Kenshin: Betrayal
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films Approx. 60 minutes; Digitally Mastered
DVD $29.98
After the Great Fire in Edo, Kenshin and Tomoe are sent into exile on a small farm. They experience peace and quiet for the first time in their turbulent lives. The rebellion, wounded after the events in Edo, is slowly rebuilding, far away from Kenshin and Tomoe. Their only link to the outside world is Iizuka, who brings them dire news from the city.
• US: ReBoot: Volume 1
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 90 minutes; Digitally Mastered DVD:$24.98
Ever wondered what happened inside your computer when you switch it on? This 3-D adventure takes you on an odyssey of epic proportions into worlds never explored before. Follow our heroes Dot, Enzo, Mouse, AndrAIa, and Phong into the uncharted reaches of The Web, where the search for a lost friend leads to a high-tech battle for survival.
• US: Gasaraki Volume 2: The Circle Opens
On Sale: 28 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 75 minutes; Digitally Mastered DVD: $29.98
Giant robots meet in fierce combat for the first time as betrayals and bloodshed tear the allied coalition apart. Friend and foe become meaningless words as brother sacrifices brother in a desperate battle for control of the secrets behind the T.A. And even as the T.A. team attempts to rescue Yushiro from the forces of an unknown enemy, his mysterious opponent reveals herself to him.

NOVEMBER GRAPHIC NOVELS
Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty
Publisher: Titan Books.128pp paperback/£9.99/On sale 24 November
Now in paperback, the hugely acclaimed cross-generation Batman saga. A classic!
Preacher: Dead Or Alive Ð The Collected Covers
Publisher: Titan Books.192pp hardback/£29.99/On sale 24 November
Every Glenn Fabry Preacher cover, plus previously unseen sketches and roughs, the perfect deluxe Preacher gift book.
Star Wars: Bounty Hunters
Publisher: Titan Books.112pp paperback/£10.99/On sale 24 November
Boba Fett headlines this ruthless gathering of the galaxyÕs most fearsome and deadly bounty-hunters.Spanning all eras of the Star Wars Universe, Bounty Hunters turns the spotlight on those with an appetite for the chase and a hunger for chaos. The vilest villains, the deadliest mercenaries, the dark underbelly of a galaxy at war is exposed as never before. Meet Aurra Sing, the dark femme fatale who strikes without warning or mercy, Dengar, 4-Lom and Bossk, whose prey is the pilot of a certain Millennium Falcon, and Kenix Kil, the bounty-hunter with an even darker past, one that begins with the rise and fall of the Crimson Empire!
Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
Publisher: Titan Books.72pp paperback/£7.99/On sale 24 November
Anarchic future journo, Spider Jerusalem returns... for the first time?!

NOVEMBER MAGAZINES
UK and Eire only: Simpsons Comics #47
It's television's latest sensation: 'The Homer Show'! Yup, Homer's life is being broadcast worldwide via satellite - that's every "doh" and every "woo hoo!" televised for all the world to see... blood curdling stuff!
£2.30/On sale 2 November
UK and Eire only: Star Wars Magazine #29
Episode II is underway, and not only is this magazine first with the news, it's also got the first in-depth interviews with the main cast! Plus, the Producer and Production Designer spill the beans on what's hot behind the camera. £3.25/On sale 6 November
World: Xena: Warrior Princess MagazineFeaturing Hercules #14
Everyone's favourite villain Autolycus is grilled, just to see how far you really can get with charm! US $5.99/UK £3.25/On sale 9 November.
UK and Eire only: Star Wars Comic #2
The latest chilling instalment of a new Darth Maul story, in which more of the Sith's past is revealed! £1.99/On sale 20 November
UK, Eire, Australia and New Zealand: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Magazine #15
Everything you'll want to know about Wesley Wyndham-Pryce and the lowdown on how to be a vamp and still keep your tan, courtesy of the special f/x team at Optic Nerve.£2.75/On sale 21 November.
UK, Eire, Australia and New Zealand: Star Trek Monthly #73
It's an all-villains special this month, as the track records of the galaxy's greatest threats are put under the microscope, with the aim of finding out who's the baddest of them all. Plus we take a look at Star Trek's evil counterparts. £3.50/On sale 24 November
UK and Eire only: Simpsons Comics #48
The chilling story of Brain Freeze Steve, the kid whose head exploded (apparently) when he drank a Squishee with two straws. It's rumoured he haunts the Kwik-E-Mart to this very day, and Bart, Lisa, Martin and Milhouse are about to discover the terrible truth! £2.30/On sale 30 November.

NOVEMBER MAKING OF BOOKS
Blade Runner: The Inside Story
Publisher: Titan Books. 80pp hardback/£16.99/On sale 24 November
Go behind-the-scenes on Ridley ScottÕs cult classic, in this insightful behind-the-scenes book, probing the visual effectswizardry that created future LA. Contains many rare photos.
The Worldwide Guide To Movie Locations
Publisher: Titan Books. 416pp paperback/£16.99/On sale 24 November
Ever wondered just how far, far away the Star Wars galaxy really is, or where OO7 shot the Man With the Golden Gun, or just how exactly to find the Lost World: Jurassic Park? Well, trouble your grey cells no longer, The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations has the answers and more besides. A travel guide and a film guide all in one, Movie Locations takes you behind the scenes of over 1500 films, allowing you to literally follow in the footsteps of Darth Vader, James Bond, that T-Rex and many other movie legends. Pack your lightsaber!

NOVEMBER 2000 NOVELS
Hardcover
• UK: The Orokon Book IV: Sisterhood of the Blue Storm
by Tom Arden. Publisher: VGSF £16.99 (HB)
In a time lost to legend, the many Isles of Wenaya were united in worship of Javander, goddes of the seas. From her vast, fantastical plaace beneath the waves, Javander presided over a caste of priestesses, linked in a psychic web. Then the web was broken, Javander's people turned to false gods and the priestesses who once served her so well became the evil Sisterhood of the Blue Storm.... slave galleys, ghost ships, shipwrecks and sea monsters are onlyu part of this enthralling fantasy as the explorer Jem and his companions arrive on the isalnd of Javander pursuing their mystic quest for the long-lost crystals of the Orokon...
Tom Arden official web site: Go
• UK: Winter's Heart
by Robert Jordan. Tor. Hardcover. £17.99. Published 23 November
All the series' favourite characters are back. Rand and Min are fleeing from the evil Cadsuane. Meanwhile, Faile is imprisoned, Mazrim Taim is caught lying, and Perrin's army is on the move. How will the Daughter of the Nine Moons affect the Seanchan? How will the White Tower withstand rebel attack?
The Wheel of Time has proved to be one of the most significant and biggest-selling fantasy series of recent years, its popularity and importance hgrwoing with each new novel. SF magazine Locus called it "A great read... the volumes only get richer as they go along."
US: The Independent Command: Flight Engineer III
by James "Scotty" Doohan & S.M.Stirling. Baen Books. (HB)
• US: Ceres Storm
by David Herter. Tor. Hardcover.
• US: Winter's Heart
by Robert Jordan. Tor. Hardcover.Published 7 November
Newcomers to the Wheel of Time series should start with Book One, The Eye of the World. • UK (paperback) • US (hardcover)
• US: Abandon in Place
by Jerry Oltion. Tor. Hardcover.
• US: The Arms of Hercules
by Fred Saberhagen. Tor. Hardcover.
• US: When the King Comes Home
by Caroline Stevermer. Tor. Hardcover.
• US: Night of Madness
by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Tor. Hardcover.

Trade paperback
• UK: Warriors of the Tempest
by Stan Nicholls. Publisher: VGSF £9.99
The follow up to Bodyguard of Lightning and Legion of Thunder, the highly-regarded first and scond books of Orcs: First Blood, set in a world where orcs are the heroes...
• UK: Everien Book Two: The Riddled Night
by Vallery Leith. Publisher: VGSF £10.99
The sequel to the acclaimed Company of Glass returns to a well rounded, carefully thought out magical realm. Everien is a land where time and landscape alike shift and change, creating an original fantasy land. Istar the warrior again finds herself fighting an enearthly Sekk, roused by the discovery of an ancient winged skeleton...

• US: The Marriage of Sticks
by Jonathan Carroll. Tor. Trade paperback.
• US: Svaha
by Charles de Lint (Orb). Tor. Trade paperback.
• US: Foreign Bodies
by Stephen Dedman. Tor. Trade paperback.
• US: The Arms of Hercules
by Fred Saberhagen. Tor. Trade paperback.
• US: Epiphany of the Long Sun
by Gene Wolfe (Orb). Tor. Trade paperback.

• UK: SF Collector's Editions: Beasts
by John Crowley. Publisher: VGSF £9.99
One of the most important SF novels of the 1970s, Beast creates a resonant and enduring myth of man and nature for our time. Painter is a leo - part man, part lion - the result of one of man's genetic experiemnts, a powerful, beautiful, enigmatic creature deemed a 'failure' to be hunted down. But Painer has two advantages in this world of small, bickering nation states and political accommodation and compromise: his own strength and integrity, and the guile of Reynard, another of man's experiments, a subtle and potent intriguer, a king-maker.
• UK: SF Collector's Editions: Floating Worlds
by Cecelia Holland. Publisher: VGSF £9.99
A delightful and funny space opera finds Captain Pausert, master of the old pirate-chaser venture having finally found his metier. Unlucky in love and unsuccessful at business, he seems to have a knack for selling job-lot cargoes around the fringes of the Empire. In fact, he's so far ahead of the game that he even finds time to perform the occasional noble deed. Which is how, on the dull, dumpy, sixth-rate planet of Porslumma, he rescues three poor child-slaves from their abuisive masters. And finds himself broke, hunted by the authorities of his home planet and at odds with the most malevolent force in all of space...
• UK: SF Collector's Editions: Fury
by Henry Kuttner. Publisher: VGSF £9.99
The earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors of the catastrophe who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more...
• UK: SF Collector's Editions: The Witches of Karres
by James H. Schmitz. Publisher: VGSF £9.99
A delightful and funny space opera finds Captain Pausert, master of the old pirate-chaser venture having finally found his metier. Unlucky in love and unsuccessful at business, he seems to have a knack for selling job-lot cargoes around the fringes of the Empire. In fact, he's so far ahead of the game that he even finds time to perform the occasional noble deed. Which is how, on the dull, diumpy, sixth-rate planet of Porslumma, he rescues three poor child-slaves from their abuisive masters. And finds himself broke, hunted by the authorities of his home planet and at odds with the most malevolent force in all of space...
• UK: SF Masterworks: Pavane
by Keith Roberts. Publisher: Millenium. £6.99
1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spamish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. In 1968, England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. As Catholicism and the inquisition tighten their grip however, rebellion is grwoing... This is one of Roberts' finest novels, highly regarded by his peers and fans alike with an intriguing alternate timeline tale supposrted by some superbly created characters that bring it to life. Recommended. A fantastic addition to the SF Masterworks library.

Mass Paperback
• UK: Bloody Bones
by Laurell K. Hamilton. Orbit. £5.99. Published 2 November 2000
When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Missouri, to do the deed, the job gets more interesting. A psychotic sword-wielding vampire starts committing multiple murders in the area, and Anita must call on Jean-Claude, her powerful fanged suitor, for help. As always, Anita prevails over the undead, keeping Jean-Claude at arm's length, clearing the cemetery land of an ancient enchantment, and nailing the vampiric killer in one fell swoop.
• UK: The Killing Dance
by Laurell K. Hamilton. Orbit. £5.99. Published 2 November 2000
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is now herself a hunted woman. Who put the $500,000 price on her head -- a man or a monster? It's not just her own skin she needs to save; the rivalry between her werewolf boyfriend, Richard, and Marcus, the other alpha werewolf in his pack, has come to full boil. And there's always Jean-Claude, the vampire who's been waiting for just the right moment to slip inside Anita's head and heart. Don't assume anything, though -- Hamilton's probably got a few more surprises in store.
• UK: Third Book of the Orokon: Sultan of the Moon and Stars
by Tom Arden. Publisher: Millenium. £6.99
Prince Jemany is plunged into a seething hotbed of political machinations and rebellion as he begins the next stage of his quest to recover the long-lost crystals of the oroiokon. Already the anti-god Toth Vexrah is working his evil upon the suceptible and easily swayed. Only jem stands in his way - but he's trapped in the bizarre, horrifying dreamworld of the enchanter Almoran...
•UK: Farscape 1: Ship of Ghosts
by David Bischoff. Publisher: Boxtree. Published 10 November, 2000
John Crichton would have answered the distress call Moya received for altruistic reasons alone. However his desperate alien shipmate fugitives had other plans. Survival! Then Rygel recognized the ships markings. This race knew the starways like the back of its ventral tentacle! However, inside the alien ship the crew found instead a mystery wrapped up in an enigma and shunted into a ghost-universe. Would Crichton, the wandering Earthman, Rygel XVI the power mad schemer, Ka D'Argo the haunted warrior, Pa'u Zotoh the exotic blue priestess and Aeryn Sun the Peacemaker at war with herself, find the key that would take them home? Or would the Ship of Dreams and ghosts add their troubled souls to its grisly collection in a galaxy beyond Death itself?
•UK: Farscape 2: Dark Side of the Sun
by Jim Mortimore. Boxtree. Published 10 November
Following a disastrous trade agreement, Moya is forced to hide inside a hollow world orbiting within a collapsing supergiant star. Inside the planet a society of ocean-dwellers is threatened with extinction. Clan war begins for possession of the only means of escape. Millions of lives are at stake. But Moya is dying and a cure can only be found at the heart of the sun. With their only means of escape blocked by lethal traders, Moya and the crew must race the death of a star to save the life of a world. The journey will take Crichton to the depths of his soul, Rygel to the heights of ecstasy and Moya to the dark side of the sun.

• US: Dragon and Phoenix
by Joanne Bertin. Tor. Paperback. Published November 2000.
• US: The Silk Code
by Paul Levinson. Tor. Paperback. Published November 2000.
• US: Borderlands of Science
by Charles Sheffield. Baen Books. Published November 2000
An absolutely fascinating science fact/how-to book for SF writers. Already out in hardcover.
• US: A Wizard and a Warlord
by Christopher Stasheff. Tor. Paperback. Published November 2000.
• US: Bios
by Robert Charles Wilson. Tor. Paperback. Published November 2000.

NOVEMBER 2000 VIDEO
UK: The Tenth Planet/Attack of the Cybermen
Featuring the First Doctor, Ben and Polly/The Sixth Doctor, Peri
Combining two stories featuring the planet Mondas -- and the Cybermen, of course. According to Doctor Who Magazine (#291) The fourth, missing, episode of The Tenth Planet will probably be visualised by combining the original soundtrack with off-screen telesnaps and narration, as was done for the 1998 The Ice Warriors Collection.

Anime
• US: Lost Universe: Volume 3
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 100 minutes; Digitally Mastered
English-Dubbed VHS $19.98 English-Subtitled VHS $29.95
For details see DVD release above
• US: Samurai X: Betrayal
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 60 minutes; Digitally Mastered English-Dubbed
VHS: $19.98 English-Subtitled VHS: $29.95 For details see DVD release above
• US: ReBoot: Volume 1
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films
VHS English: $14.98 For details see DVD release above
• US: Gasaraki Volume 2: The Circle Opens
On Sale: 28 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 75 minutes; Digitally Mastered English-Dubbed
VHS: $19.98 For details see DVD release above
• US: Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040: Volume 9 - Kill Zone
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 60 minutes; Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-Fi
English-Dubbed VHS: $19.98 English-Subtitled VHS: $29.95
Follow Linna, Sylia, Priss, and Nene as the Knight Sabers continue their mission to protect Tokyo from Genom's monolithic power.
• US: Weird-Ohs Volume 1
On Sale: 28 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 110 minutes; Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-Fi
VHS (English): $12.98
In a world off Route 66 and just beyond the speed limit, there's Weirdsville, a fast moving society were even the baby buggies are built for speed. It's a place where cars rule, and racing is a way of life. Unfortunately for Digger, Eddie, and Portia, their biggest problem is just keeping up.
• US: Burn Up W (Complete Series) (Re-release)
On Sale: 14 November Distributor: ADV Films
Approx. 120 minutes; Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-Fi
English-Dubbed VHS: $14.98 Get the entire Burn Up W collection on one video cassette.
• US: Golden Boy: Episodes 1-3 (Re-release)
On Sale: 28 November Distributor: ADV Films Approx. 75 minutes; Digitally Mastered VHS Hi-Fi English-Dubbed VHS: $19.98
Own episodes 1-3 of Golden Boy, now on one video cassette.