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Sequels . . . lots and lots of sequels.

David Weber seemingly lives to write sequels. Alan Dean Foster will probably be writing "Pip & Flinx" novels when both Pip and Flinx are old and gray! And Peter F. Hamilton has a new novel - now out in paperback - called Fallen Dragon which appears to be a sequel to the Night's Dawn trilogy.

Yes, novelists and movie producers seem to be thriving on sequels. Speaking of movies, did you see the "Return of the King" trailer that New Line Cinema accidentally let out of the bag? If you missed it, it is now hard to find. New Line has asked everyone to please take it down. If your searching on the 'net, don't be fooled by the fake "Hobbit" trailer. Peter Jackson has not yet been asked to produce it. What you see is a fannish fake created using an early FOTR trailer and parts of a trailer for "Reign of Fire" (apparently).

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    Time Past
    Maxine McArthur

    Copyright © April 2002
    Warner Books, Inc.

Here's something that's no fake, however: Maxine McArthur's Time Past which, oddly enough, is the sequel to Time Future.

Time Past picks up a few months after or 95 years before the previous novel in the series. As if Commander Halley hadn't had enought trouble before, now she's stranded almost 100 years in her past, due to an accident with an experimental spacecraft. She's sick, she hurts, she can't get home . . . and she's the only one on Earth who knows that the aliens are about to land.

Even if she contacts the aliens and hitches a ride, she'll probably be thrown in jail once she gets back. She's not supposed to be in posession of the type of technology that got her into this fix.

Then her old buddy Bill Murdock shows up. How he managed to follow her, is another long story or three. So now, of course, she's got two people to try to get home. When the aliens finally land, the wild ride really starts.

This one is just as good as the original!

'Til Next Month,
Happy Reading

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