Events/Books/Films

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1999: MAY • JUN • JUL • AUG • SEP • OCT • NOV • DEC

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---- August 1999 Events ----

August Conventions include:
Aug 26-29: Conucopia/NASFiC in Anaheim CA

---- August 1999 Books ----

Anderson, Poul • Operation Luna • (Tor, hc) Banks, Iain • The Business • (Little Brown UK, hc) Baxter, Stephen • Time • (HarperCollins/Voyager, hc) Blaylock, James P. • The Rainy Season • (Ace, h, hc) Burns, Jim • Transluminal • (SFBC, 1st US, hc, art) Clarke, Arthur C. • Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds: Collected Works 1944-1998 • (St. Martin's, nf, hc) Egan, Greg • Teranesia • (Orion/Gollancz, hc, tp) Newman, Kim • Life's Lottery • (Simon & Schuster UK, a, hc) Rushkoff, Douglas • Coercion: Why We Listen to What ''They'' Say • (Riverhead, hc, nonfiction) Silverberg, Robert • Lord Prestimion • (HarperPrism, 1st US, hc) Straub, Peter • Mr. X • (Random House, h, hc) Turtledove, Harry • The Great War: Walk in Hell • (Ballantine Del Rey, hc) Vonnegut, Kurt • Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction • (Putnam, c, hc) Williams, Walter Jon • The Rift • (HarperPrism, hc) Zelazny, Roger & Jane Lindskold • Lord Demon • (Avon Eos, hc) Zubrin, Robert • Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization • (Jeremy P. Tarcher, hc, nonfiction)

---- August 1999 Films ----

Aug 6: The Iron Giant -- d. Brad Bird. Based on a novel by Ted Hughes; animated adventure about a machine that falls to Earth and is befriended by a boy in Maine town. website
Aug 6: Mystery Men -- d. Kinka Usher; st. Ben Stiller, Geoffrey Rush. Superhero parody. website
Aug 6: The Sixth Sense -- d./wr. M. Night Shyamalon; st. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment. Willis is a psychologist who treats a boy who sees dead people. website
Aug 13: Bowfinger -- d. Frank Oz; wr. Steve Martin; st. Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy. Associational interest. Martin is a low-budget Hollywood director trying to make a sci-fi film with top star Murphy.
Aug 20: Universal Soldier: The Return -- d. Mic Rodgers; st. Jean-Claude Van Damme. (Columbia) website
Aug 27: The 13th Warrior -- d. John McTiernan; st. Antonio Banderas. Based on Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead. (Touchstone) website
Aug 27: The Astronaut's Wife -- d. Rand Ravich; st. Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron. Depp is an astronaut who loses contact with NASA for two minutes and can't remember what happened. website
Aug 27: Dudley Do-Right -- d. Hugh Wilson; st. Brendan Fraser. Associational interest. (Universal) website
Aug 27: The Muse -- d. Albert Brooks; wr. Albert Brooks & Monica Johnson; st. Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell. website

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1999: MAY • JUN • JUL • AUG • SEP • OCT • NOV • DEC

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Forthcoming books are selected titles from the comprehensive listings updated every three months in Locus Magazine. This color indicates 1st editions published in the UK; This color indicates 1st US editions of books previously in the UK or elsewhere; others are 1st editions published in the US. Abbreviations indicate hc=hardcover, tp=trade paperback; c=collection, a=associational [non-genre], h=horror, nf=nonfiction. If not indicated hc or tp, the book is mass-market paperback or we're not sure. Schedules are tentative and subject to change -- particularly in later months.

Film listings are drawn from Coming Attractions, Entertainment Weekly, and Web Film Release Schedule. Dates are highly subject to change!