From Star Wars Fan Works:Today marks the second anniversary of Star Wars Fanworks, the second anniversary of Requiem of the Outcast, and the first anniversary of Star Wars and Beyond With this being a big month for Fanworks, it seems only natural that it would turn out to also be a big month for fan audio releases.

New releases this month include ChronoRadio, Star Wars and Beyond, Star Wars FM, Fan Audio Made Easy, Other Voices and Adventures of the Galactic Star Force Power Squad. Visit Star Wars Fan Works for more details.

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The star of Star Trek: New Voyages, James Cawley, who plays Captain Kirk on the fan-produced series, will appear in Star Trek: Hidden Frontier's upcoming episode "Vigil" as Captain Mackenzie Calhoun from the Star Trek: New Frontier series of books.

Carlos Pedraza, the producer of Hidden Frontier, announced the casting in a press release with more details on the web site.

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Today I believe I've reached a new level of Nerd Nirvana. On a whim, I decided to record a 30 second podcast ad for PlanetFandom.com. In case anyone was wondering . . . that is indeed me on the advertisement, since Star Wars en Direct is scheduled to air tomorrow at 7:00, I decided to throw this together and see if I could get it submitted so it would "air" before the show starts. Anyways, hope you like it . . . I think it came out pretty well.

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During this episode we will have the chance to talk live on the phone with Rob Watkins, the man behind the Star Wars Miniatures game from Wizards of the Coast.

You have questions for Rob and/or about the Universe Huge set or the Miniatures in general, send them (or phone number for us to call) to studio@swendirect.com. You can also be in our chatroom during the interview and leave questions to the hosts.

The live broadcast begins this Tuesday at 7PM Eastern

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An article on CNN published Friday discussed some public library's efforts to try and keep up with Information Age technology. It's no secret that the Internet has changed the way we look at information (I never once had to use a library to do a research paper in college, for example), and libraries must find new ways to adapt if they don't want to become relics of the past. The article talks about "A new way to borrow audiobooks" that in some ways resembles podcasting, hence it seems somewhat apropriate to mention it here.

... public libraries from New York City to Alameda, California, are letting patrons download Tom Clancy techno-thrillers, Arabic tutorials and other titles to which they can listen on their computers or portable music players -- all without leaving home. Read the Full Story

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For those of you who have been following the Star Wars fanfilm scene for awhile, you're probably aware of the runaway hit that took the Grand Prize in the 2003 Atomfilms Fan Film Contest, Pink Five. Since the premiere of the original hilarious piece by The Truly Dangerous Company, it was followed up by Pink Five Strikes Back which won the Atomfilms Audience Choice Award in 2004. Now they're looking to bring in installment #3, Return of Pink Five, which if the previous two installments are any indication--will be absolutely hilarious and very well produced.

But, as fanfilms sometimes tend to do, the Pink Five production has run into a few financial snafus, and so they need your help. Check out Pink Five's Blog for more information.

From TheForce.net: TF.N and Rebelscum are working together to get donations for the fan film Return of Pink Five. In case you don't know, Pink Five won the George Lucas Selects award in Lucasfilm's 2003 Official Star Wars Fan Film awards - its sequel, Pink Five Strikes Back won the Audience Choice Award the following year. We love their work.

There are only 58 shirts in mixed sizes and once they are gone, well, they are gone. After that, or in addition to it, you can buy Pink Five stuff over at HERE, or if you can donate even a dollar, you can do so HERE.

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Fan productions everywhere got a cumulative boost with the popularization of Star Wars Fanfilms, and George Lucas' generous policy toward people who make spin-off features about his pet universe. But one area of great creativity and talent that is often overlooked is the fan audio community. From dramatic "radio" shows to introspective podcasts (like Star Wars en Direct), sci fi fans (and not just of Star Wars) have been creating compelling and entertaining audio content for quite sometime.

That's what makes sites like Nathan P. Butler's Star Wars Fanworks so useful. Stealing a bit of TheForce.net's thunder (which tends to more heavily focus on fanfilms), this website is the authoritative source for news Star Wars themed fan audio. Like all fan projects, some of the material catalogued on Nathan's site is quite good, like Second Strike, and fan audio doesn't have to be watched on your computer or television. You can upload it to your iPod, for example, and listen on the road or on a jog.

Whatever your preference, if you're into SciFi fandom productions, Star Wars Fanworks is definitely worth a bookmark.

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Sean Bartlett offers an extremely well-done Star Wars fan animation titled "Grape Scented." I don't exaggerate in the slightest when I say this is the best fanfilm animation I have ever seen. The production is extremely high quality, the animation is clean and professional, and the storyline is amusing. Not to mention that the "hero" reminds me of one of my high-school buddies. It clocks in at a slender 3 minutes 11 seconds and 26 megabytes and is well worth the download.

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Loren Javier, a fellow Sci Fi enthusiast over at Confessions of a (thirtysomething) drama queen, recently posted an article discussing grassroots organizing and how it relates to science fiction. As something of a "fanboy advocate," I find Fandom and the hidden power of a fanbase to be a seductive and compelling side of Sci Fi. Unfortunately, it's still the exception rather than the rule where a television series maker will take notice of their core fanbase and purposefully try to toss them a few bones every once in awhile . . .

One need only look at the debacle that was Star Trek: Enterprise to realize that it's much more common that a producer will try to press their own vision onto the audience rather than listen to the fans in any reasonable capacity. As they go about their arbitrary march toward their great "vision" that will doubtlessly "revitalize the franchise," they often quote misnomers to the naysayer like "it's what the mainstream wants" and that the hard-core fans are simply "a vocal minority" to be at best ignored and at worst ridiculed. I won't dispute that a producer, writer or director has the absolute right to screw up their series as much as they please, but fans also have the right to point it out when they do so. It's our job to criticize the media we love, and writers and producers ignore us at their own peril.

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