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MADNESS BECKONS: As previously announced, February's book club book is going to be _At the Mountains of Madness_ by H.P. Lovecraft. We'll start talking about it on February 1st. If you haven't yet picked up a copy, our February voting thread has some advice about which anthologies the story is in.
Madness Books
REVIEWS PAST: Our review queue is currently empty, but we hope you enjoyed our reviews from last week of _Three Shades of Night_, for World of Darkness, and _Ender's Game_, by Orson Scott Card.
Ender's Game
Three Shades of Night
Industry News
WRITER'S STRIKE: The writer's strike is in a state of flux right now because the Director's Guild, which was next up in line to negotiate, popped in and made a deal with the studios. The writer's guild has been entirely silent about the directors' deal, pretty much to their deficit among their constituents, and it might be enough to break the strike even though the DGA deal is pretty far from what the writers feel they need. But as of this week it's all up in the air. The studios have started talking to the WGA again for the first time in over a month. Within the next week, we'll probably know whether we'll see May sweeps or whether it'll be next Fall (or later!) before we see our shows again.
DGA Deal
LOST: Meanwhile, the networks continue to trot out their various delayed shows, to pretend that they still have a TV season. For us the next big one is _Lost_, which premieres a week from Thursday. There's a thread to talk about the show's lurking mysteries.
Lost Mysteries
OTHER THREADS OF NOTE: Here's some other threads which got some notable attention in the last week:
Lovecraft for Newbies
What We Read in 2008
About the Sci-Fi Channel
Stargate Atlantis
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