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It is a new month!

You know what that means, right?

That’s right! New additions to the Suvudu Free Library!

All are great books!

And the best part. I can’t say it enough. They are free!

• Magic Kingdom For Sale—Sold! by Terry Brooks
• For Love of Mother-Not by Alan Dean Foster
• Star Wars: Precipice by John Jackson Miller

Pretty cool, huh?

Magic Kingdom For Sale—Sold! by Terry Brooks is the first book in the Landover series. Terry is best known for the epic fantasy of his Shannara series but he has written two other series that are also well-written and great tales! If you are a Shannara fan but haven’t tried Landover, here is your chance to try it for free!

For Love of Mother-Not by Alan Dean Foster is the first chronological book in his wondrous Pip & Flinx series, which just wrapped up last month in Flinx Transcendent. Here is your chance to try Alan’s work!

Star Wars: Lost Tribe of The Sith: Precipice by John Jackson Miller is a Star Wars short story. To read more about this great free tale, read what Kyle had to say about it last week HERE! Then go download it and read it—for free!

Visit the Free Library page and decide how you want to download them. You never know. You might find your next favorite writer!

More coming soon! So stay tuned!

Here are the other book, DVD and movie releases for the week!

BOOKS

• Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster

• Batman [Blu-ray]
• A Bug’s Life [Blu-ray]
• Outlander
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Blu-ray]
• True Blood: The Complete First Season

• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
• Terminator Salvation

Thirty-seven years. The series is older than the characters.

In many ways, Flinx and I have grown up together, though I’m aging twice as fast as he is. On the other hand, I don’t have the fate of the galaxy resting in my hands, as Flinx does in FLINX TRANSCENDENT. My choices are easier, though helping him with his is as difficult as ever. That’s because I wanted his maturation, from street thief to adventurer to reluctant and seriously conflicted possible savior, to be as believable as that of an actual person. He has doubts, he has trouble with love, and more than anything else he just wants to be left alone.

Life, unfortunately, doesn’t leave us alone. Flinx the hermit would make for a pretty dull tale, so I’ve placed him in far more dangerous and troubling situations than the character ever would himself. If I met him in a dark alley he’d probably sic Pip on me, and I wouldn’t blame him. But I love the guy, though I wouldn’t trade places with him for all the useful pharmaceuticals on Drowning World. Being a hero is a tough business. Those who want to be heroes usually wind up dead. Flinx is a hero, but he has no martyr complex. Given the choice he’d rather head off in the other direction. Throughout the course of the series he’s certainly given it a try on more than one occasion. Unfortunately for him, at heart he’s too moral, too much of a decent human being, to run from responsibility. Not on his own behalf, but because of the friends he values and loves. That’s who, ultimately, he’s grudgingly willing to sacrifice himself for.

And that is what makes a hero.

“The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.”

I bet Skynet disagrees with that litany!

May 21, 2009 will see the release of Terminator: Salvation, the fourth movie in the popular Terminator series and the hope of Warner Bros. to revitalize the franchise after the disappointing Terminator: Rise of the Machines. The early trailers have shown a dark movie, set in 2018, where mankind has fallen to the machines and its only chance of survival is in the mind and heart of one man—John Connor. The movie appears to weave an interesting story amidst more intriguing human dilemmas: What does it mean to be human? How much can we lose before we lose our humanity entirely? Can a machine ever be human?

The movie looks great! Or least to me it does…

But there are several book tie-ins, being created by Titan Books, that I think might be great as well, a means to delve even more into those darker aspects of ourselves and the story itself.

Timothy Zahn, of Star Wars fame, has written Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes, the authorized prequel to Terminator: Salvation. Anyone who has read Zahn’s work knows he is a fantastic writer, loves science fiction, and he probably jumped at the chance to work in this all-important series. The prequel will be published in mass market paperback on March 17, 2009!

Alan Dean Foster, another great writer who has dozens and dozens of novels, novelizations and short stories, has written the novelization to Terminator: Salvation. As with most novelizations, Foster will most likely be allowed to delve into elements of the story the movie simply cannot cover, truly getting into the mind of John Connor and friends. The mass market paperbook will be released on April 28, 2009, almost a month before the movie hits theaters!

Titan Books has also put together two other Terminator tie-ins: Terminator Salvation: The Movie Companion, which chronicles the making of the film with interviews and commentary from the cast and crew, and The Art of Terminator Salvation, another book release that reveals the movie’s intricate creative design, production art and the computer-generated imagery that create the breathtaking vision of the Terminator universe’s violent, dystopian future.

So, for all of you Terminator fans out there, it is a good time to be alive!