Author Archives: W. Blaine Dowler

As you may be able to tell, my formal training is not as a writer. My degrees are in physics and education. In my day job, I work in supplemental education, which is why my productivity is lowest when report card season hits.

Upcoming game collection reviews

My copies of Mega Man Anniversary Collection
(containing Mega Man 1-8 and the two Mega Man Power
Battle games not previously released in North
America) and Midway Arcade Treasures
(including over 20 classic arcade games, including
Rampage, Paperboy, Joust,
Gauntlet, and others) shipped the other day.
When they are eventually reviewed, should the 30
games get individual reviews, or two reviews of the
collections?

Official Serenity Movie Website Is Official

rickyjames
writes, Check it out! Universal Studios has
opened up the
official Serenity movie website. In other news,
Browncoat fan Bob has posted his
adventure as a Serenity extra, complete with non-plot-spoiling
pictures from the set. Exterior photography is
complete; now the action is all aboard the Serenity
set. Keep flyin’. Yes, this is nearly a
duplicate of the previous article. However, we have
now confirmed (with the help of Xiadix) that it is
the official site. (The doubt was because it used to
have the HTML title bar “Official Serenity Movie Fan
Site,” but that’s since been changed to a simple
“Serenity” instead.) The above links give
link-through credit to rickyjames, who has an eye on
one of the T-shirts they give as a part of their
incentive programs to spread the word.

Official Serenity Movie site up?

If you check out comments posted by Emmett here
and here,
you’ll see links to this page,
which is labelled the “Official Serenity Fan Site”.
Copyright credit is given to Universal Studios, but
it’s bloody early in production, and it is labelled
as a fan site, with one instance linking back to
unofficial fan pages. Is this the official site, or
a fan creation?

Ringworld’s Children official site

Larry Niven has forwarded a message from Tor to the
larryniven-l discussion list, asking for people to be
made aware of the official
Ringworld’s Children page of Tor’s
website. It was released on June 1. I have my copy
already, but I want to reread The Ringworld
Throne first; I’m 41 pages into that one.
Expect both books to be reviewed by the end of the
summer. (Ringworld and The Ringworld
Engineers have already been reviewed; see this
list while I still have that webspace.) UPDATED: Title changed from Ringworld’s Throne official site to Ringworld’s Children official site to match the actual content of the article.