VIDEOS, ZINES &  BOOKS  REVIEWS - 6º EDITION (NEW!!)

COLLECTOR PRESS BOOKS:

SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 20TH CENTURY - An Illustrated History -By FRANK M. ROBINSON (Book , Hardcover w/embossed and foiled dust jacket.10" x 13", 256 full-color pages 450 full-color images- COLLECTORS PRESS- USA).

This is, without doubts, one of the most exquisite and beautiful editorialx works that already saw. The edition is luxurious and the graphic design work is very sophisticated, but that is the less important. The most important is the content of that wonderful volume, a detailed and well researched historical of the Scientific Fiction from its appearance to the current days, with prominence for the literature but also speaking about SF in the movies, the text is very well written and the book is full of marvelous colored images removings of pulp magazines, digests, slicks, paperbacks, hardcovers, and film posters. The book is divided in chapters in a very creative and unusual way: "Future Dream", "Stellar Companions and Dwarf Stars", "The Death of Science Fiction?", etc. Winner of the 2000 Locus Award and to 1999 Hugo Award nominee. that is a necessary book in the shelf of any studious or lover of SF!!! Buy it now!!!! Contacts: www.collectorspress.com  / loric@collectorspress.com  (EF)

HORROR OF THE 20TH CENTURY - An Illustrated History -By ROBERT WEINBERG (Book - Hardcover w/embossed jacket 10" X 13", 256 pages , 450 full-color images - COLLECTORS PRESS - USA).

Another great release of publishing Collectors Press. That is an important historical study of the history of the horror from its appearance with the gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto" by the English writer's Walpole, going by the american pulp magazines of the beginning of the century highlighting the work of geniuses as Edgar Allan Poe and Lovecraft, for the legendaries horror movies actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney and arriving to the authors' modern horror as Stephen King and Clive Barker. The work is illustrated richly with hundreds of colored art reproductions taking from pulp magazines (including a study of the artistic evolution of the covers - nudes and censors!), of books and film's posters, some of them very rare. The author is the winning writer of horror novels Robert Wenberg, with dozens of books writings, now he comes to add to his production this indispensable research work. If you like horror and want to know the subject more deeply that is a very valuable work!! Contacts: www.collectorspress.com  / loric@collectorspress.com  (EF)

COMIC BOOK CULTURE - An Illustrated History -By RON GOULART ( Book - Hardcover w/jacket -10 ½" x 11", 208 pages, 440 Four-Color Images - COLLECTORS PRESS - USA)

The author Ron Goulart is a meticulous and careful researcher of the called "Golden Age of American Comic Books" (thirties & forties). This is a very interesting book contends a great number of reproductions of comic book's covers of that period and still a good text talking about some of the main artists of the comics of that such important period for the american comic's history. The research is including and it involves from the famous super heroes comics as Captain Marvel & Superman going by the humor's comics books as Archie & Teena and arriving to the adventure and SF comics as Jungle Comics, Planet Comics & Wonder Comics. The edition is luxurious and beautifulI. An extraordinary work for the lovers of the theme. Contacts: www.collectorspress.com  / loric@collectorspress.com  (EF)

ZINES:

LAMENTATION - Issue 11 (Zine / English - 400 pags - Slovakia). This zine have an impressive work of diagramation and a fabulous number of  reviews, more than 300!!!! Good interviews with bands like RAIN FELL WITHIN, ABORTION, THE GREAT KAT, CENTINEX and much more, the interviews are interesting and some answers are very funny: "How many cigars Monica Lewinsky used to smoke a day? When did Bill last see her cunt? (to Aurora Borealis)" and "Do you have to stimulate your clitoris to come off during fucking?" (to Monica from mexican band Antiqua)... Strange ?!!! No, it's funny!!! Good zine with great proposal! Contacts: lamentation@galamb.net   (EF)

A OBSCURA ARTE - Issue 2 (Newsletter / portuguese- 44 pags - Brazil). It is an luxuruous black & withe newsletter from the brazilian black metal label "Evil Horde Records", beutiful graphic work with black color, the most of the pages is composed by titles of the label's distro catalog , but the zine still has some very interesting interviews with the legendary act LIMBONIC ART and another bands:   TSJUDER, POSTHUMOUS & SETHERIAL. It is worthwhile to check! Contacts: www.evilhorderec.com / blacklegion@vrs.com.br  (EF)

VIDEO:

GREAT KAT - Castration (Music Video - 1:12 minute - Thomas Public Relations - USA). THE GODESS FROM HELL IS COME BACK!!! This is another crazy piece elaborated by the insane&genious mind of american classic gore grind godess GREAT KAT, only 1 minute and 12 seconds of putrid color images with SM insinuations and castatrion images!!! KAT hate the penis of your slaves and mutilated them....Mini ophera for serial Killer!!!! See now or she will catch you and your cock, he, he!!!! Contacts: www.greatkat.com / kthomas@thomas-pr.com  (EF)