Grey's Anatomy

SÉRIES

Grey's Anatomy (ABC)

Décima Temporada

Com: Ellen Pompeo (Dr. Meredith Grey), Patrick Demsey (Dr. Derek Shepard), Sandra Oh (Dr. Cristina Yang), Justin Chambers (Dr. Alex Karev), Chandra Wilson (Dr. Miranda Bailey), James Pickens, Jr. (Dr. Richard Webber), Kevin McKidd (Dr. Owen Wilson), Sara Ramirez (Dr. Callie Torres), Jessica Capshaw (Dr. Arizona Robbins), Jesse Williams (Dr. Jackson Avery), Sarah Drew (Dr. April Kepner).

Estreia: 26 de Setembro nos E.U.A.
Portugal: 3 de Outubro no canal Fox Life.

Anatomia de Grey volta com a décima temporada que promete muitas emoções e, aparentemente, uma morte logo no primeiro episódio, "Seal Our Fate", que terá duas horas de puxar a lágrima bem ao estilo dramático da série. Estreia já na Quinta, dia 3 no canal Fox Life às 22:00.

BONES

Séries

Bones (FOX)

Nona Temporada

Com: Emily Deschanel (Dr. Tenperance "Bones" Brennan), David Boreanaz (Seeley Booth), Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro), T. J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins), Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan), John Francis Daley (Dr. Lance Sweets).

Regressa: 16 de Setembo nos E.U.A.
Em Portugal: Passa na RTP2 às Quartas e na FOX (actualmente não passa).

A série Bones já está na nona temporada e estreou a 16 de Setembro nos E.U.A. A história da maior especialista em ossos já vai longa e a família cresceu. Resta saber o que irão descobrir e investigar Bones e Booth a seguir.

FALLING SKIES

SÉRIES FANTÁSTICAS

Falling Skies (TNT)

Terceira Temporada

Com: Noah Wyle (Tom Mason), Moon Bloodgood (Anne Blass), Deew Roy (Hal Mason), Connor Jessup (Ben Mason), Colin Cunningham (John Pope), Maxim Knight (Matt Mason), Sarah Carter (Maggie), Mpho Koaho (Anthony), Seychelle Gabriel (Lourdes), Will Patton (Dan Weaver).

Estreia: 6 de Junho nos E.U.A.

Portugal: 25 de Setembro no SyFy.

Falling Skies já estreou há alguns meses nos E.U.A., mas chega hoje a Portugal pelo canal SyFy. Pelas imagens, a terceira temporada promete muita acção e algumas surpresas. Esta série sci-fi tem mantido um nível bom ao longo das duas temporadas, mas espero que eleve um pouco a fasquia e que inove um pouco com esta terceira temporada.

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King
Doctor Sleep
2013

É lançado hoje um dos livros mais esperados do ano, a continuação do aclamado bestseller The Shining de Stephen King. Doctor Sleep chega hoje às livrarias de todo o mundo, a tão esperada continuação de um dos livros de terror mais marcantes do século XX. 

Sinceramente não sei se terá sido uma boa opção para Stephen King escrever esta continuação, uma vez que The Shining é um livro muito bom, conhecido e icónico dentro do género. Será que valia mesmo a pena voltar a esta história uma vez que esta tem um fim? Por outro lado, ainda hoje deve andar por aí muito leitor a perguntar-se como terá crescido Danny, o que andará a fazer, como será a sua vida?

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within dream."

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in Stephen's canon.

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
1859

'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!'

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novel’s hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris. One of Dickens’s most exciting novels, A Tale of Two Cities is a stirring classic of love, revenge, and resurrection.

With his sublime parting words, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done...", Sidney Carton joins that exhalted group of Dickensian characters who have earned a permanent place in the popular literary imagination. His dramatic story, set against the volcanic fury of the French Revolution and pervaded by the ominous rumble of the death carts trundling toward the guillotine, is the heart-stirring tale of a heroic soul in an age gone mad. A masterful pageant of idealism, love, and adventure.

Emmys 2013

Vaidade no Emmys

As noites de prémios televisivos e cinematográficos costumam ficar marcadas pela passadeira vermelha e pelo tradicional glamour associado a estes eventos. 

A Academia de Televisão, Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos da América revelou a noite passada os vencedores da edição 65 dos Emmy Awards.

A beleza, o charme, a simpatia e o divertimento marcam estas noites cheias de estilo, onde as celebridades mostram as tendências da moda e promovem vestidos, jóias e sapatos. 

Este ano, os vestidos não eram particularmente espectaculares, mas mesmo assim houve um grande desfile de beleza pela passadeira vermelha.

  

Emmys 2013

VENCEDORES

A Academia de Televisão, Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos da América revelou a noite passada os vencedores da edição 65 dos Emmy Awards. Os prémios mais importantes da televisão norte americana foram apresentados por Neil Patrick Harris num espectáculo bastante calmo e apenas com dois números de coreografia e dança, algo divertido, mas muito contido em termos de piadas. De salientar as várias homenagens sentidas que foram feitas aos actores e actrizes que nos deixaram este ano.

No Drama os vencedores foram Breaking Bad (AMC) na categoria de Melhor Série e de Melhor Actriz Secundária para Anna Gun; House of Cards (Netflix) levou o prémio de Melhor Realização para David Fincher; Homeland (Showtime) venceu o prémio de Melhor Actriz para Claire Danes pela segunda vez e de Melhor Argumento para Henry Bromell; The Newsroom (HBO) venceu na categoria de Melhor Actor para Jeff Daniels; e Boardwalk Empire (HBO) levou o prémio de Melhor Actor Secundário para Bobby Cannavale.

Na Comédia, a série Modern Family (ABC) venceu mais uma vez na categoria de Melhor Série e de Melhor Realização para Gail Mancuso; The Big Bang Theory (CBS) venceu o prémio de Melhor Actor para Jim Parsons; Veep (HBO) venceu na categoria de Melhor Actriz para Julia Louis-Dreyfus e de Melhor Actor Secundário para Tony Hale; e Nurse Jackie (Showtime) na categoria de Melhor Actriz Secundária para Merritt Wever.

Na categoria de Mini-série ou Filme os vencedores foram Behind the Candelabra (HBO), que venceu os prémios de Melhor Mini-Série, de Melhor Actor para Michael Douglas e de Melhor Realização para Steven Soderbergh; Laura Linney da série The Big C: Hereafter (Showtime) venceu como Melhor Actriz; James Cromwell de American Horror Story: Asylum (FX Networks) venceu como Melhor Actor Secundário; e Ellen Burstyn de Political Animals (USA) venceu como Melhor Actriz Secundária.

Dado a atenção e projecção que as várias séries nomeadas têm tido ao longo dos últimos tempos, não houve grandes surpresas nos vencedores, principalmente na categoria de comédia. Confesso que pensei que Homeland levasse mais Emmys para casa, mas Breaking Bad e The Newsroom foram uma bela surpresa nas respectivas categorias vencedoras.

É com bastante pena minha que não vi duas séries muito boas, Dexter e Sherlock, nomeadas. E não posso deixar de mencionar algumas séries de fantasia, ficção científica e horror, que foram mais uma vez esquecidas e não reconhecidas, como foi o caso da última temporada de Fringe, The Walking Dead e Arrow ou ainda Game of Thrones (venceu dois Emmys em categorias técnicas) e American Horror Story: Asylum (venceu apenas dois Emmys). 

Outstanding Drama Series

Vencedor: Breaking Bad • AMC
Breaking Bad • AMC
Downton Abbey • PBS
Game Of Thrones • HBO
Homeland • Showtime
House Of Cards • Netflix
Mad Men • AMC

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Vencedor: The Newsroom • HBO • Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy
Breaking Bad • AMC • Bryan Cranston as Walter White
Downton Abbey • PBS • Hugh Bonneville as Robert, Earl of Grantham
Homeland • Showtime • Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody
House Of Cards • Netflix • Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood
Mad Men • AMC • Jon Hamm as Don Draper
The Newsroom • HBO • Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Vencedor: Homeland • Showtime • Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison
Bates Motel • A&E • Vera Farmiga as Norma Bates
Downton Abbey • PBS • Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley
Homeland • Showtime • Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison
House Of Cards • Netflix • Robin Wright as Claire Underwood
Mad Men • AMC • Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson
Nashville • ABC • Connie Britton as Rayna James
Scandal • ABC • Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Vencedor: Boardwalk Empire • HBO • Bobby Cannavale as Gyp Rosetti
Boardwalk Empire • HBO • Bobby Cannavale as Gyp Rosetti
Breaking Bad • AMC • Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut
Breaking Bad • AMC • Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman
Downton Abbey • PBS • Jim Carter as Mr. Carson
Game Of Thrones • HBO • Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister
Homeland • Showtime • Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Vencedor: Breaking Bad • AMC • Anna Gunn as Skyler White
Breaking Bad • AMC • Anna Gunn as Skyler White
Downton Abbey • PBS • Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Game Of Thrones • HBO • Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen
The Good Wife • CBS • Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart
Homeland • Showtime • Morena Baccarin as Jessica Brody
Mad Men • AMC • Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series
Vencedor: Scandal • ABC • Dan Bucatinsky as James Novack
The Good Wife • CBS • Nathan Lane as Clarke Hayden
The Good Wife • CBS • Michael J. Fox as Louis Canning
Homeland • Showtime • Rupert Friend as Peter Quinn
Mad Men • AMC • Robert Morse as Bertram Cooper
Mad Men • AMC • Harry Hamlin as Jim Cutler
Scandal • ABC • Dan Bucatinsky as James Novack

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
Vencedor: The Good Wife • CBS • Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni
The Americans • FX Networks • Margo Martindale as Claudia
Game Of Thrones • HBO • Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell
The Good Wife • CBS • Carrie Preston as Elsbeth Tascioni
Mad Men • AMC • Linda Cardellini as Sylvia Rosen
The Newsroom • HBO • Jane Fonda as Leona Lansing
Shameless • Showtime • Joan Cusack as Sheila Jackson

Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series
Vencedor: Homeland • Q&A • Showtime • Henry Bromell 
Breaking Bad • Dead Freight • AMC • George Mastras
Breaking Bad • Say My Name • AMC • Thomas Schnauz
Downton Abbey • Episode 4 • PBS • Julian Fellowes
Game Of Thrones • The Rains Of Castamere • HBO • David Benioff; D.B. Weiss
Homeland • Q&A • Showtime • Henry Bromell

Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
Vencedor: House Of Cards • Chapter 1 • Netflix • David Fincher 
Boardwalk Empire • Margate Sands • HBO • Tim Van Patten
Breaking Bad • Gliding Over All • AMC • Michelle MacLaren
Downton Abbey • Episode 4 • PBS • Jeremy Webb
Homeland • Q&A • Showtime • Lesli Linka Glatter
House Of Cards • Chapter 1 • Netflix • David Fincher

Outstanding Comedy Series
Vencedor: Modern Family • ABC
The Big Bang Theory • CBS
Girls • HBO
Louie • FX Networks 
Modern Family • ABC
30 Rock • NBC
Veep • HBO

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Vencedor: The Big Bang Theory • CBS • Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper
Arrested Development • Netflix • Jason Bateman as Michael Bluth
The Big Bang Theory • CBS • Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper
Episodes • Showtime • Matt LeBlanc as Matt LeBlanc
House Of Lies • Showtime • Don Cheadle as Marty Kaan
Louie • FX Networks • Louis C.K. as Louie
30 Rock • NBC • Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
Vencedor: Veep • HBO • Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer
Enlightened • HBO • Laura Dern as Amy
Girls • HBO • Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath
Nurse Jackie • Showtime • Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton
Parks And Recreation • NBC • Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope
30 Rock • NBC • Tina Fey as Liz Lemon
Veep • HBO • Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Vencedor: Veep • HBO • Tony Hale as Gary Walsh
Girls • HBO • Adam Driver as Adam Sackler
Modern Family • ABC • Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett
Modern Family • ABC • Ed O’Neill as Jay Pritchett
Modern Family • ABC • Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy
Saturday Night Live • NBC • Bill Hader as Various characters
Veep • HBO • Tony Hale as Gary Walsh

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Vencedor: Nurse Jackie • Showtime • Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow 
The Big Bang Theory • CBS • Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler
Glee • FOX • Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester
Modern Family • ABC • Sofia Vergara as Gloria Pritchett
Modern Family • ABC • Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy
Nurse Jackie • Showtime • Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow
30 Rock • NBC • Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney
Veep • HBO • Anna Chlumsky as Amy Brookheimer

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series
Vencedor: The Big Bang Theory • CBS • Bob Newhart as Arthur Jeffries/Professor Proton
The Big Bang Theory • CBS • Bob Newhart as Arthur Jeffries/Professor Proton
Modern Family • ABC • Nathan Lane as Pepper Saltzman
Nurse Jackie • Showtime • Bobby Cannavale as Dr. Mike Cruz
Saturday Night Live • NBC • Louis C.K., Host
Saturday Night Live • NBC • Justin Timberlake, Host
30 Rock • NBC • Will Forte as Paul

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
Vencedor: Louie • FX Networks • Melissa Leo as Laurie 
Enlightened • HBO • Molly Shannon as Eileen Foliente
Glee • FOX • Dot-Marie Jones as Shannon Beiste
Louie • FX Networks • Melissa Leo as Laurie
Saturday Night Live • NBC • Melissa McCarthy, Host
Saturday Night Live • NBC • Kristen Wiig, Host
30 Rock • NBC • Elaine Stritch as Colleen Donaghy

Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series
Vencedor: 30 Rock • Last Lunch • NBC • Tina Fey, Tracey Wigfield
Episodes • Episode 209 • Showtime • David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik
Louie • Daddy’s Girlfriend (Part 1) • FX Networks • Louis C.K., Pamela Adlon
The Office • Finale • NBC • Greg Daniels, Written by
30 Rock • Hogcock! • NBC • Jack Burditt, Robert Carlock
30 Rock • Last Lunch • NBC • Tina Fey, Tracey Wigfield

Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series
Vencedor: Modern Family • Arrested • ABC • Gail Mancuso
Girls • On All Fours • HBO • Lena Dunham
Glee • Diva • FOX • Paris Barclay
Louie • New Year’s Eve • Louis C.K.
Modern Family • Arrested • ABC • Gail Mancuso
30 Rock • Hogcock! / Last Lunch • NBC • Beth McCarthy-Miller
 
Outstanding Miniseries Or Movie
Vencedor: Behind The Candelabra • HBO
American Horror Story: Asylum • FX Networks
Behind The Candelabra • HBO
The Bible • HISTORY
Phil Spector • HBO
Political Animals • USA
Top Of The Lake • Sundance Channel

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Vencedor: Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Michael Douglas as Liberace
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Michael Douglas as Liberace
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Matt Damon as Scott Thorson
The Girl • HBO • Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock
Parade’s End • HBO • Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens
Phil Spector • HBO • Al Pacino as Phil Spector

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Vencedor: The Big C: Hereafter • Showtime • Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison 
American Horror Story: Asylum • Jessica Lange as Sister Jude Martin
The Big C: Hereafter • Showtime • Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison
Phil Spector • HBO • Helen Mirren as Linda Kenney-Baden
Political Animals • USA • Sigourney Weaver as Elaine Barrish Hammond
Top Of The Lake • Sundance Channel • Elisabeth Moss as Robin

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Vencedor: American Horror Story: Asylum • FX Networks • James Cromwell as Dr. Arthur Arden
American Horror Story: Asylum • FX Networks • James Cromwell as Dr. Arthur Arden
American Horror Story: Asylum • FX Networks • Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Thredson
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Scott Bakula as Bob Black
The Big C: Hereafter • Showtime • John Benjamin Hickey as Sean
Top Of The Lake • Sundance Channel • Peter Mullan as Matt

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Vencedor: Political Animals • USA • Ellen Burstyn as Margaret Barrish Worthington
American Horror Story: Asylum • FX Networks • Sarah Paulson as Lana Winters
The Girl • HBO • Imelda Staunton as Alma Hitchcock
Political Animals • USA • Ellen Burstyn as Margaret Barrish Worthington
Restless • Sundance Channel • Charlotte Rampling as Sally Gilmartin
Steel Magnolias • Lifetime • Alfre Woodard as Ouiser

Outstanding Writing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special
Vencedor: The Hour • BBC America • Abi Morgan 
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Richard LaGravenese
The Hour • BBC America • Abi Morgan
Parade’s End • HBO • Tom Stoppard
Phil Spector • HBO • David Mamet
Top Of The Lake • Sundance Channel • Jane Campion, Gerard Lee

Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special
Vencedor: Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Steven Soderbergh 
Behind The Candelabra • HBO • Steven Soderbergh
The Girl • HBO • Julian Jarrold
Phil Spector • HBO • David Mamet
Ring Of Fire • Lifetime • Allison Anders
Top Of The Lake • Part 5 • Sundance Channel • Jane Campion, Garth Davis

Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program
Vencedor: Project Runway • Lifetime • Heidi Klum, Host; Tim Gunn, Host
American Idol • FOX • Ryan Seacrest, Host
Betty White’s Off Their Rockers • NBC • Betty White, Host
Dancing With The Stars • ABC • Tom Bergeron, Host
Project Runway • Lifetime • Heidi Klum, Host; Tim Gunn, Host
So You Think You Can Dance • FOX • Cat Deeley, Host
The Taste • ABC • Anthony Bourdain, Host

Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Vencedor: The Voice • NBC 
The Amazing Race • CBS
Dancing With The Stars • ABC
Project Runway • Lifetime
So You Think You Can Dance • FOX
Top Chef • Bravo
The Voice • NBC

Outstanding Variety Series
Vencedor: The Colbert Report • Comedy Central 
The Colbert Report • Comedy Central
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Comedy Central
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon • NBC
Real Time With Bill Maher • HBO
Saturday Night Live • NBC

Outstanding Variety Special
Vencedor: Louis C.K.: Oh My God • HBO
The Kennedy Center Honors • CBS
Louis C.K.: Oh My God • HBO
Mel Brooks Strikes Back! With Mel Brooks And Alan Yentob • HBO
Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday (Part One) • NBC
12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief

Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series
Vencedor: The Colbert Report • Comedy Central
The Colbert Report • Comedy Central
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Comedy Central
Jimmy Kimmel Live • ABC
Portlandia • IFC •
Real Time With Bill Maher • HBO
Saturday Night Live • NBC

Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special
Vencedor: Louis C.K.: Oh My God • HBO 
The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards • NBC
Louis C.K.: Oh My God • HBO
Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs • Comedy Central
Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update Thursday (Part One) • NBC
66th Annual Tony Awards • CBS

Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series
Vencedor: Saturday Night Live • Host: Justin Timberlake • NBC • Don Roy King 
The Colbert Report • Episode 8131 • Comedy Central • James Hoskinson
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Episode 17153 • Comedy Central • Chuck O’Neil
Jimmy Kimmel Live • Episode 13-1810 • ABC • Andy Fisher
Late Show With David Letterman • Episode 3749 • CBS • Jerry Foley
Portlandia • Alexandra • IFC • Jonathan Krisel
Saturday Night Live • Host: Justin Timberlake • NBC • Don Roy King

Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special
Vencedor: The Kennedy Center Honors • CBS • Louis J. Horvitz
The Kennedy Center Honors • CBS • Louis J. Horvitz
London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony • NBC • Bucky Gunts, Hamish Hamilton
Louis C.K.: Oh My God • HBO • Louis C.K.
The Oscars • ABC • Don Mischer
12-12-12: The Concert For Sandy Relief • Michael Dempsey

Everness

Ian McDonald
Everness Series

Everness é uma série concebida por Ian McDonald lançada em 2012, que conta com dois volumes publicados e um terceiro será publicado em 2014. A história tem mistério, aventura, muitas engenhocas e será possível viajar no multiverso e conhecer Terras paralelas. O conceito é interessante e as capas são fabulosas. E o autor virá a Portugal já em Novembro, por isso toca a ler os livros do senhor.

Planesrunner (2012)

There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one among billions of parallel earths.

When Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer. Suddenly, this teenager has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse—the Infundibulum—the map of all the parallel earths, and there are dark forces in the Ten Known Worlds who will stop at nothing to get it. They’ve got power, authority, the might of ten planets—some of them more technologically advanced than our Earth—at their fingertips. He’s got wits, intelligence, and a knack for Indian cooking.

To keep the Infundibulum safe, Everett must trick his way through the Heisenberg Gate that his dad helped build and go on the run in a parallel Earth. But to rescue his dad from Charlotte Villiers and the sinister Order, this Planesrunner’s going to need friends. Friends like Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, her adopted daughter, Sen, and the crew of the airship Everness.

Can they rescue Everett’s father and get the Infundibulum to safety? The game is afoot!

Be My Enemy (2013)

Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price.

His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All World.

And Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild, random Heisenberg Jump to a random parallel plane.

Everett is smart and resourceful and from a frozen earth far beyond the Plenitude plans to rescue his family.

But the villainous Charlotte Villiers is one step ahead of him.

Empress of the Sun (2014)

The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. There they find an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter.

Then they meet the Jiju, the dominant species on a plane where the dinosaurs didn't die out. They evolved, diversified, and have a twenty-five million year technology head-start on humanity. War between their kingdoms is inevitable, total and terrible.

Everness has jumped right into the midst of a faction fight between rival nations, the Fabreen and Dityu empires. The airship is attacked, but then defended by the forces of the Fabreen, who offers theEverness crew protection. But what is the true motive behind Empress Aswiu's aid? What is her price?

The crew of the Everness is divided in a very alien world, a world fast approaching the point of apocalypse.

Creepy Horror (2)

Euro Steam Con 2013

Programa

A organização já divulgou a programação completa da EuroSteamCon - Porto 2013, que pode ser vista aqui e no site Clockwork Portugal.

11.00 - Abertura - Clockwork Portugal

11.15 - Sessão “Crowdfunding em Steampunk” - Joana Lima e André Nóbrega

11.45 - Sessão “Jogos Steampunk” - Nuno Mendes, Sofia Romualdo, Cláudia Silva e Ricardo Tavares

12.30 - Pausa para almoço

14.30 - Sessão “Romances Steampunk” - Alexandra Rolo e Joana Lima

15.00 - Sessão “Cinema e séries Steampunk” - Nuno Reis (ScifiWorld Portugal)

15.30 - Ciclo de Cinema (Aurora + Airlords of Aria + Invention of Love + The Tale of Mr Rêvus)

16.30 - Pausa para chá e convívio

17.30 - Sessão “Rui Alex - Ilustração” - Rui Alex, apresentado por Joana Lima

18.00 - Lançamento do Almanaque 2013 + Sessão de autógrafos com os autores

Lojas:

Oficial: Skypirate Creations

Águas Furtadas + Koollook

Prendinhas da Rosário

Decorrem paralelamente:

- Concurso Cosplay

- Cupcakes e biscoitos da Chá das Cinco

- Nanozine

- Banca de Almanaques

- Demonstração de jogos Steampunk

- Exposição da BD e trabalhos do Rui Alex

BANG! Brasil

Já está disponível online a revista BANG! Brasil. A Saída de Emergência parece estar decidida a apostar no mercado brasileiro que, diga-se de passagem, já ultrapassou o nosso em fantasia, ficção científica e horror (uma vez que falamos de uma escala muito superior à nossa) há algum tempo. 

Para além da publicação da revista BANG! Brasil, que parece ter os mesmos moldes da que é publicada em Portugal, a editora também vai começar a publicar autores ligados ao fantástico no Brasil.

Por cá, sairá uma nova BANG! em Outubro. (É uma pena sairem cada vez menos por ano).

Revista BANG!

Fórum Fantástico 2013

Ian McDonald

O Fórum Fantástico divulgou que Ian McDonald é o convidado principal da edição deste ano. O conhecido autor de ficção científica virá ao maior evento do Fantástico do nosso país através de de uma parceria do evento com a editora ASA/Leya.

Em Portugal há apenas um livro do autor publicado, Brasil, pela Gailivro na Colecção Mil e Um Mundos. No entanto, Ian McDonald é senhor de uma vasta obra. 

 

O autor nasceu em 1960 em Manchester e vive em Belfast desde 1965.

O seu primeiro livro publicado foi Desolation Road em 1988, que mais tarde continuou com The Luncheonette of Lost Dreams (1994) e Ares Express (2001). 

Os mais conhecidos fazem parte de uma trilogia que começou com River of Gods (2004), que decorre na Índia, Brasyl (2007), que se passa no Brasil e The Dervish House (2010), com base na Turquia.

Ian McDonald já foi nomeado e venceu vários prémios ao longo da sua carreira, incluindo o prémio Philip K. Dick pela fantasia King of Morning, Queen of Day. Ultimamente tem publicado a série Everness composta por Planesrunner (2012), Be My Enemy (2013) e Empress of the Sun, que sairá em 2014.

Mais informações em Fórum Fantástico.