Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Dies
The British science fiction writer, futurist, inventior and author of
approximately 100 books died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the
age of 90. Clarke is most famous for his short story "the Sentinel",
later adapted by Stanley Kubrick into the 1968 movie 2001: A SPACE
ODYSSEY.
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Book Expo America Designates Graphic Novel Day
BEA has designated Saturday, May 31 as Graphic Novel Day, which kicks
off with a breakfast sponsored by Diamond Book Associates and featuring
Art Spiegelman, Jeph Loeb, Mike Mignola and Jeff Smith. The entire day
will be sponsored by New York Comic Con. "Since I run both BEA and New
York Comic Con, this is sort of like a dream come true," Lance Fensterman,
v-p and show manager, said in a statement. "I get to take one big show, in
this case New York Comic Con,
and give it a little home inside our other big show! Without a doubt,
the strength of the content and personalities involved in our graphic
novel programming this year give credence to the explosive impact
graphic novels are having on the publishing and book retail industry."
Penguin Launches Alternate Reality Game
We Tell Stories, an alternate reality game created by Penguin and startup Six to
Start, launches this morning. It will begin with six weekly
installments, based on a classic novel and written by a different
Penguin author, which tasks participants with finding their way through
the story through tools developed for the game. The seventh and final
installment will link up to the previous six and, according to Six to
Start chief creative Adrian Hon, is "a more traditional ARG,
and it sort of feeds into the other six stories and binds them
together. The seventh story gives you motivation to read all six
stories, and explains why they're written."
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