Week Ending June 12th, 2015

Winner of the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel - Annihilation by

Jeff VanderMeer (ISBN 9780374104092 $13.00) Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has

reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one anotioner, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers--they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding--but it's the surprises that came across the border with

them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.

You can find the other titles of the ‘Southern Reach’ trilogy in todays ‘Showcase’ Variety is reporting that Natalie Portman is in early talks to star in the adaptation of the Jeff VanderMeer novel for Garland and Paramount Pictures. Scott Rudin is producing.

Jurassic World - Official Global Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJJrkyHas78

Lots of tie-in titles in today’s showcase

Bradley Cooper, Graham King, Todd Phillips Adapting ‘Hyperion’ (ISBN

9780553283686 $7.99) as Syfy Event Series http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/bradley-cooper-hyperion-syfy-1201516501/

Chiwetel Ejiofor’s ‘Doctor Strange’ Character Revealed: He’ll Play

Baron Mordo http://deadline.com/2015/06/chiwetel-ejiofor-doctor-strange-baron-mordo-marvel-benedict-cumberbatch-1201441281/

Releasing in August - Doctor Strange: Don't Pay the Ferryman See today’s ‘Showcase’ for title info

TV Review: ‘Dark Matter’ http://variety.com/2015/tv/reviews/dark-matter-review-from-dark-horse-comics-on-syfy-channel-1201515144/

Dark Matter V01: Rebirth (ISBN 9781595829986 $14.99)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: You won't see any punching in the 'Sandman' movie http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2015/06/08/joseph-gordon-levitt-sandman-punching-movie-neil-gaiman/

A Satisfying Steampunk Saga Winds Up In 'Clockwork Crown' (ISBN

9780062313980 $14.99) http://www.npr.org/2015/06/11/413188275/a-satisfying-steampunk-saga-winds-up-in-clockwork-crown

IN STOCK – The Geeky Chef Cookbook: Real-Life Recipes for Your

Favorite Fantasy Foods - Unofficial Recipes from Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and more (ISBN 9781631060496 $21.99) The Geeky Chef contains over 60 step-by-step, illustrated recipes for foods seen in sci-fi and fantasy TV, movies, games and books.

Geek out with recipes inspired by books, movies, television, and video games! You've conquered comic con. You binge watch Star Wars regularly. Now, it's time to get your geek on in the kitchen! Cassandra Reeder loves to cook, and she's a bona-fide mega-geek. Comic-lover, avid gamer, and sci-fi and fantasy lover, she started The Geeky Chef in 2008. She creates real-life recipes for all the delicious foods you've seen in your favorite sci-fi and fantasy movies, TV shows, and video games. From Game of Thrones and the Hunger Games to Doctor Who, the Legend of

Zelda and the World of Warcraft, this book features over 60 recipes and photos that you can re-create right in your own home for the geek in your life. Finally learn to create Butterbeer and Pumpkin Pasties from Harry Potter. Indulge in the Lemon Cakes from Game of Thrones. Sip from a bowl of Plomeek Soup from Star Trek and enjoy with Peeta's Cheesy Bread from the Hunger Games right in your kitchen! Fantasy foods are fantasy no longer...

Nice write up at ‘Shelf Awareness - http://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-

issue.html?issue=406#m7154

Michael Bay is attached to direct Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager (ISBN

9780765377180 $25.99) – July 7th release

Just released – Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of

Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels Edited by Tom Devlin (ISBN 9781770461994 $49.95) Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels celebrates the storied transformation of the Montreal publisher whose veneration of the medium's best cartoonists has never wavered. In 1989, when the term "graphic novel" was not commonly heard in the comic shop or bookstore, Chris Oliveros created a comics magazine that took the industry by storm with issues that featured Peter Bagge, Julie Doucet, Carol Tyler, Jacques Tardi, and Seth. Armed with an editorial aesthetic, design sense, and passion for its artists, D+Q grew from a one-man operation into a wildly influential boutique publisher. D+Q is renowned for an author-friendly ethos of high production standards, creative freedom, and fair business practices, with a roster that includes Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Chester Brown, Daniel Clowes, Tove Jansson, Shigeru Mizuki, Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, and others from around the globe. Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years is a celebration of the brilliant cartoonists whose talent and loyalty is the core of D+Q's success as an independent publisher. The book digs into the archives and features comics, biographies, personal reminiscences, and photographs; new work by Michael DeForge, Guy Delisle, Miriam Katin, R. Sikoryak, and Jillian Tamaki; essays by Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem, Sheila Heti, and Deb Olin Unferth; and interviews by Jeet Heer and Sean Rogers.

Warner Bros. won a heated bidding war for the movie rights to Uprooted (ISBN

9780804179034 $25.00), the new fantasy novel from Hugo Award-nominated

Naomi Novik, the author behind the dragon-laced Temeraire book series.

Making a rare foray into features with the tome is Ellen DeGeneres, who will produce the adaptation with Jeff Kleeman. Kleeman, her partner at A Very Good Production banner, identified the book and brought it to DeGeneres.

See today’s ‘Showcase’ for this and other Naomi Novik titles

Releasing in July – Armada by Ernest Cline (ISBN 9780804137256

$25.00) A cinematic, inventive, heartwarming, and completely nerdtastic adventure from the bestselling author of Ready Player One

It’s just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He’s daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom—if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he’s going crazy. A minute later, he’s sure of it. Because the UFO he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada—in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders.

But what Zack’s seeing is all too real. And his skills—as well as those of millions of gamers across the world—are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s about to befall it. Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught, Zack can’t help thinking of all the science-fiction books, TV shows, and movies he grew up reading and watching, and wonder: Doesn’t something about this scenario seem a little too…familiar?

MPH (ISBN 9781632152657 $14.99) by Mark Millar from Image (creator of KICK-ASS & KINGSMAN’S SECRET SERVICE) optioned for movie. http://icv2.com/articles/comics/view/28470/millars-mph-optioned-big-screen

ORPHAN BLACK has been renewed for a 4th season. The IDW graphic novel will be out in late September. http://deadline.com/2015/05/orphan-black-renewed-season-4-bbc-america-1201422130/

Now taking orders for the August release of….

The End of All Things by John Scalzi (ISBN 9780765376077 $24.99)

Hugo-award winning author John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with the direct sequel to 2013's The Human Division Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more. Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time-a couple of decades at most, before the ranks of the Colonial Defense Forces are depleted and the struggling human colonies are vulnerable to the alien species that have been waiting for the first sign of weakness, to drive humanity to

ruin. And there's another problem: A group, lurking in the darkness of space, playing human and alien against each other-and against their own kind -for their own unknown reasons. In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth, and keep humanity's union intact...or else risk oblivion, and extinction-and the end of all things.

You will find this title and many more John Scalzi titles in today’s Popazine ‘Showcase’

Releasing in July 7th – Tim & Eric's Zone Theory: 7 Easy Steps to Achieve a Perfect

Life by Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim (ISBN 9781455545438 $26.00) From Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, two of the 21st century's most vital and creative minds, comes a brand new, inspirational, and game-changing life system that promises to instantly provide wellness, happiness, and total, absolute fulfillment.

Nice review for the upcoming movie adaptation of ‘The Little Prince’ (ISBN 9780156012195 $10.00) – Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless classic gets a loving 21st-century makeover, especially in its handcrafted stop-motion sequences. http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/the-little-prince-cannes-review-1201503230/ This movie will release here in the fall More ‘Little Prince’ titles in today’s ‘Showcase’

Living Language Dothraki (ISBN 9780804160865 $19.99)

Invented language lessons from George RR Martin and other writers http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/08/invented-language-lessons-from-george-rr-martin-and-other-writers

Saga V05 (ISBN 9781632154385 $14.99) releases Oct. 6th

2015

The new AMC companion series Fear the Walking Dead has started production in Vancouver. Six episode, season one launches in late summer. Actor/singer/activist Ruben Blades joins the cast of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead as a series regular. Blades will play the father of Mercedes Mason’s character.

Trailer for fall season release of Lucifer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bF_quwNtw Lucifer is based on the graphic novels of the same name. Originally a spin-off of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman ‘series. The TV show will stick to the roots of the original comic: the Devil gets sick of Hell and abandons his post in favor of running a piano bar in Los Angeles. The TV show will also add the twist of having Lucifer use his demonic powers to help the L.A.P.D. solve crimes. The series will star Tom Ellis as the title character. The show’s cast also includes Lauren German, Rachael Harris, DB Woodside, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Nicholas Gonzalez and Scarlett Estevez. Kapinos and Wiseman are exec producers, and the project is from Warner Bros. TV, DC Comics and Jerry Bruckheimer Television.

The ‘Lucifer’ titles are listed in today’s ‘Showcase’ as well as ‘The Sandman’ titles

Releasing June 30th – The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who (ISBN

9780062386960 $19.99) Doctor Who stories are many things: thrilling adventures, historical dramas, tales of love and war and jelly babies. They’re also science fiction—but how much of the science is actually real, and how much is really fiction?

Empire of the Dead, the 15-issue graphic novel from zombie master George A. Romero and published by Marvel Comics, is being

adapted for TV. The series will be written by Romero and longtime partner Peter Grunwald and exec produced by the pair alongside Demarest partners Sam Englebardt and William D. Johnson. No network has yet been revealed. About the book - Welcome to New York City years after the undead plague has erupted...but just because Manhattan has been quarantined, don't think that everyone inside is safe! Not only do flesh-eaters roam Manhattan, but there's another ancient predator that has taken a bloody bite out of the Big Apple: vampires rule the city! But who is plotting against the Mayor? Is there a zombie uprising afoot? Who is the firecracker known as Dixie Peach? And in the pit of the bloody Circus Maximus, can anything stop the unchained fury of the zombie gladiator known as Zanzibar?

George Romero's Empire of the Dead: Act One (ISBN 9780785185178 $19.99) George Romero's Empire of the Dead: Act Two (ISBN 9780785185192 $19.99) George Romero's Empire of the Dead: Act Three (ISBN 9780785185208 $19.99) – October release

Luc Besson to Direct ‘Valerian’ In Return to Sci-Fi, Sets 2017 Release Date – Update http://deadline.com/2015/05/luc-besson-valerian-movie-europacorp-1201425149/

Valerian titles listed in todays ‘showcase’

Releasing in July - The Complete Eightball 1-18 by Daniel Clowes

(ISBN 9781606997574 $119.99) This is a two-volume, slipcased facsimile edition of the Daniel Clowes comics anthology; it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more. Before he rose to fame as a filmmaker and the author of the best-selling graphic novels Ghost World, David Boring, Ice Haven, and The Death Ray, Daniel Clowes made his name from 1989 to 1997 by producing 18 issues of the beloved comic book series Eightball, which is still widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential comic book titles of all time. Now, for the 25th Anniversary of Eightball, Fantagraphics is collecting these long out-of-print issues in a slipcased set of two hardcover volumes, reproducing each issue in facsimile form exactly as they were originally published. Included are over 450 pages of vintage Clowes, including such seminal serialized graphic novels/strips/rants as “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron,” “Ghost World,” “Pussey,” “I Hate You Deeply,”

“Sexual Frustration,” “Ugly Girls,” “Why I Hate Christians,” “Message to the People of the Future,” “Paranoid,” “My Suicide,” “Chicago,” “Art School Confidential,” “On Sports,” “Zubrick and Pogeybait,” “Hippypants and Peace-Bear,” “Grip Glutz,” “The Sensual Santa,” “Feldman,” and so many more.

Teaser trailer to Syfy’s three night event - Childhood's End (ISBN

9780345347954 $7.99) December 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKPNpBjSf8g

Trailer for Minority Report (ISBN 9780806523798 $14.95) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fLl-DMzxrk Minority Report is being turned into a TV series, and Fox has just released its first trailer. Like the movie, Fox's show is about using people known as "precogs," who can more or less see the future, to help stop crimes before they're committed. However, the series is more of a sequel than a new take on the same material: it takes place many years after the film, when the law enforcement unit using precogs has been dismantled. It focuses on a remaining precog, still receiving flashes from the future, who pairs up with a detective to secretly prevent the crimes he predicts.

From Buzz Feed - 11 Things to Know about Syfy’s “The Magicians” Series http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/things-to-know-about-syfys-the-magicians-series?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Books+513&utm_content=Books+513+CID_5eb7ce6934ca735ab4eb4a240e4dbe32&utm_source=BuzzFeed%20Newsletters&utm_term=11%20Things%20To%20Know%20About%20Syfys%20The%20Magicians%20Series#.qmzqN23e0

‘The Magicians’ Picked Up To Series by Syfy Lev Grossman’s best-selling fantasy book trilogy The Magicians is headed to Syfy’s primetime as the network has given a 12-episode series order to its pilot. http://deadline.com/2015/05/the-magicians-series-syfy-1201420427/

The Magicians (ISBN 9780452296299 $16.00)

The Magician King (ISBN 9780452298019 $16.00)

The Magician's Land (ISBN 9780670015672 $27.95) – Trade

paperback, ISBN 9780147516145 $16.00, releases June 9th

Also releasing in June - The Magicians Trilogy Box Set (ISBN 9780147517388 $48.00)

A brilliantly twisty, turny supernatural mystery from the author of the Ex-Heroes series

IN STOCK - The Fold by Peter Clines (ISBN 9780553418293

$25.00) The folks in Marco Leland’s small New England town would say he’s just your average, everyday guy. And that’s just how Marco likes it. Sure, the life he’s chosen may not be much of a challenge to someone with his gifts, but Marco is content with his quiet and peaceful existence. That is, until an old government friend presents him with an irresistible mystery—one that Marco seems uniquely qualified to solve: it seems that a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device that could make teleportation a reality. But something is very wrong with the project. The personalities of the scientists who work on it are changing. People are dying. And reality itself seems to be…warping.

Marco soon learns that the machine is not at all what it appears to be—and that its creators may have opened a doorway to something horrible that lurks just outside our world’s borders.

Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic Channing Tatum On ‘The Forever War’ (ISBN 9780312536633 $14.99)

As Warner Bros., Sony Battle For It http://deadline.com/2015/04/channing-tatum-the-forever-war-movie-richard-edlund-1201418549/

New Trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7EKraqvxE THE STRAIN ON FX RETURNS FOR SEASON TWO THIS SUMMER

The Strain MTI (ISBN 9780062344618 $9.99 Night Eternal MTI (ISBN 9780062344632 $9.99)

The Fall MTI (ISBN 9780062344625 $9.99)

Season two of FX’s The Strain debuts Sunday, July 12 at 10p. Its freshman year, the Carlton Cuse drama was 2014’s most-watched new scripted series among basic and cable nets in A18-49 (2.4 million). In Live+7, the show drew 6.28 million total viewers and 3.49 million A18-49.

Roger Deakins to Shoot ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel http://variety.com/2015/film/news/blade-runner-requel-roger-deakins-1201501693/

See todays ‘Showcase’ for title info

IN STOCK - Star Trek: The Next Generation: Armageddon's Arrow by Dayton Ward (ISBN 9781476782690 $7.99) An all-new novel of The Next Generation expanded universe from the New York Times bestselling author! It is a new age of exploration, and the U.S.S. Enterprise is dispatched to “the Odyssean Pass,” a region charted only by unmanned probes and believed to contain numerous inhabited worlds. Approaching a star system with two such planets, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew find a massive alien vessel, drifting in interstellar space for decades. Sensors detect life aboard the derelict—aliens held in suspended animation. Thought to be an immense sleeper ship, the vessel actually is a weapon capable of

destroying entire worlds...the final gambit in a war that has raged for generations across the nearby system. Captain Picard is now caught in the middle of this conflict and attempts to mediate, as both sides want this doomsday weapon…which was sent from the future with the sole purpose of ending the interplanetary war before it even began!

Debuts June 13th on BBCAmerica

BBC Trailer for Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1nsOoTJos&feature=youtu.be

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Trade Paper – ISBN 9781582346038 $18.00 Mass Market – ISBN 9780765356154 $9.99 6/12/15 – From Flavorwire - BBC America’s ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’ Will Delight Fans of the Book and Newcomers Alike http://flavorwire.com/522539/bbc-americas-jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-will-delight-fans-of-the-book-and-newcomers-alike?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=FlavorwireSocial

Releasing October 2015

Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir (ISBN 9781501107726 $30.00) 4/23/15 - from Comicbook.com - http://comicbook.com/2015/04/23/stan-lee-to-write-graphic-autobiography-with-peter-david-and-art/

For ordering info on all the above titles, visit our Showcase page at – https://orders.bookazine.com/POPZ-NEWS-JUNE-12TH-2015/45/bookazine4/show-list-sc