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Michael Crichton, author of Jusassic Park, died yesterday at at 66 after a battle with cancer.

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What the heck is going on here? Has someone been downing Pangalacticgargleblasters? A new Hitcherhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy book? What?
Yep, it’s true. BBC is reporting that Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series, has been commissioned to write “And Another Thing…“, the sixth book in the Hitcherhiker’s [...]

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A movie of the Dark Tower series of novels from Stephen King is in the planning stages!
Damon Lindelof is interested in doing it, but says:

“And the idea of doing that at the same time Carlton (Cuse, co-producer) and I are bringing Lost to a close is simply not viable. There are always Dark Tower conversations, [...]

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Thought there were no more Harry Potter books coming from JK Rowling? Well, there you would be wrong, my friend. Amazon has just announced that The Tales of Beetle the Bard will be available on December 4th. There will be both a collector’s edition and a standard edition.

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Randy Pausch, the professor that gave his ‘Last Lecture’ at Carnegie Mellon last year, has died.

Here he talks about the reaction to his lecture:
Read more at TheLastLecture.com.

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Need something to hold you until Lost starts in January 2009? ABC has started a Lost Book Club which shows all the literary references in the show through all the seasons so far. The producers even have a note for fans, which says (among other things):
We can’t promise you any of these books [...]

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