Amazing Stories #603

[nikolai]

The cover picture is up on Pazio's website and it should be on the stands quite soon. It looks very interesting. http://www.paizo.com/amazing

See also the Weblog: http://www.paizo.com/amazingblog.shtml

Contents Include

• Saving the Superhero - on superhero movie adaptations with contributions from Stan Lee, Peter David (who's he - anyone?) & X-Men-screenwriter David Hayter.
• Redoing the Dark Knight - screenwriter David Goyer explains what he's done for Batman Begins, and also talks about Blade: Trinity.
• Four-Color Fantasy - George R. R. Martin & Dabel Brothers Productions talk about The Hedge Knight and upcoming fantasy comics.
• A Dimension of Sound - a new radio adaptations of the Twilight Zone.
• Short Stories by Timothy Zahn (wrote the Star Wars Thrawn trilogy), Bruce Sterling (?), Gene Wolfe (wrote the Book of the New Sun), Ray Vukcevich (?), Harlan Ellison (lots and lots of sci-fi) & Neil Gaiman (Sandman, American Gods, etc., etc., etc.).
• Interviews with Larry Niven & Robert Silverberg, who are both sci-fi writers I can't place.
• & lots of reviews.

Thoughts?

P.S. Would anyone mind telling me why Harlan Ellison's name is - according to the cover - a registered trademark.

 

[takyris]

Peter David is a reputable comics guy -- he also writes a lot of media tie-in fiction (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Hulk, the Spider-Man 2 novel). He has a real gift for capturing voices and injecting humor into dark situations.

I thought my story was going to be in #603, but it's actually looking like that's not the case. I don't know if I was remembering that wrong, or if a bunch of A-List people signed on for the first issue and I got bumped. Fine either way -- I'd certainly bump me off if it meant getting a ton of A-list folks for the first issue -- but probably just a brain fart on my part. Looking back through the contract, there isn't any mention of what issue I'm gonna be in...

 

[Jamdin]

Here is what I found doing some research on Google:

Harlan Ellison went to the effort of registering his own name as a trademark (effective Dec 2002, claiming commercial use back to 1949). Presumably to protect his name from misrespresentation (this is Harlan, after all). By trademarking his name, he gets certain limited rights to his name that he would not have otherwise, preventing use by others in ways (1) related to what he does, and [inclusive] (2) trying to make commercial use of his name.
Mainstream celebrities also do this, to protect their name from being used by others in commerce as well.

Billy Joel supposedly has registered his name as a trademark too.

 

[your father is]

Planet Ray

Ray Vukcevich (?)

Ray Vukcevich is one of my favorite writers. If you're unfamiliar with his work, start with Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Boy and The Wages of Syntax.

 

[nikolai]

I thought my story was going to be in #603, but it's actually looking like that's not the case. I don't know if I was remembering that wrong, or if a bunch of A-List people signed on for the first issue and I got bumped. Fine either way -- I'd certainly bump me off if it meant getting a ton of A-list folks for the first issue -- but probably just a brain fart on my part. Looking back through the contract, there isn't any mention of what issue I'm gonna be in...

My post isn't a complete list of contents. It was just the infomation I was able to compile as being in that issue from the cover image and the weblog. There looks to be a lot of different articles in each issue, I'm sure I didn't manage to list them all. I have no idea if your story is in this issue or not, but I by no means intended to suggest that it wasn't in there.