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"If I had known how much you talk, I'd never come out of my coma."
-Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton), WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Revealed! 666 is the cellphone number of the Beast!  Art: Tom Holtkamp, originally published in STARLOG #346 (2006)
Established 1974! Our news column hears the lamentations of your women. Robert E. Howard’s fabled hero, Conan the Barbarian, is riding closer to a silver screen incarnation, with director Marcus Nispel in charge.
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 DON’T read this review. I’m being serious. In fact, don’t read ANY reviews of MOON. I mean, if you absolutely HAVE to read a review, well, then, read mine. But still, I urge you to click back to the homepage, ignore this review (which I toiled oh-so-hard on) and spend your time checking out the other new content on STARLOG’s site. Why, you ask, am I demanding that you pay never no mind to this well-written, spot-on, entertaining and informative review? (Cue the sarcasm). Well, because in this age of SPOILER reviews and full-disclosure trailers, the delight of being surprised while watching a cinematic story unfold has been lost. In this era of instantaneous information overload, it seems like we know the beginning, middle and ends of most movies before they’re even released (WOLVERINE anybody?).
 CYBERABAD DAYS: RETURN TO THE INDIA OF 2047by Ian McDonald (Pyr, tpb, 330 pp, $15.98)CYBERABAD DAYS is soooo good. I've heard positive things about McDonald-especially his Hugo-nominated RIVER OF GODS-but I've never read anything by him before. Boy, have I been missing out. Set in the world of RIVER OF GODS, CYBERABAD DAYS is an anthology of seven short stories. The first, "Sanjeev and Robotwallah," which was selected for both THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: 25TH ANNUAL COLLECTION and YEAR'S BEST SF 13, concerns "robotwallahs"-teenage soldiers who serve as robot jockeys in the War of Separation. But what happens to these boy-soldiers once the conflict ends?
Next up for a well-known ham: an apocalyptic yet commercial vehicle (with prime product placement).  Art: John Langton, originally published in STARLOG in 2000
Established 1974! Our news column has been around the block.  Outbound from the science fiction universe, Katee Sackhoff will now fight evil as part of the 24 ensemble.
 ACT OF WILL by A.J. Hartley (Tor, hc, 336 pp, $24.95) ACT OF WILL reads like it's the offspring of an Andre Norton and Fritz Leiber collaboration. Hartley's hero talks and talks and talks his way in and out of trouble, narrating his adventures with gusto and a sly, self-deprecating charm that draws in the reader. While the plot is enjoyable and well-developed-an actor and playwright on the run from the Empire falls in with a group of adventurers investigating a mystical army wrecking havoc on the countryside-it's hero Will Hawthorne who holds the reader's attention.
Remember STAR WARS? Or is it time to go fishing?  Art: "Big Bad Bubba" (Alain Chaperon), originally published in STARLOG in 1999
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