Just a quick note to mention October's title. We'll be reading The Hunger Games , the first in Suzanne Collins recently completed trilogy. The meeting's on the 21st.

Here's a link to The Solo Adventures. It's a student film produced at the DAVE School in Orlando which reveals how Han Solo ran afoul of Jabba and exactly what was in the cargo he dumped before the beginning of Star Wars. Very well done and aside from one point, I'd be perfectly willing to accept it as part of the canon. Hopefully, we'll see more of these shorts.

Lastly, the winners of the British Fantasy awards have been announced. They are as follows:

Best Novel: the August Derleth Fantasy Award: One, Conrad Williams (Virgin Horror)

Best Novella: The Language of Dying, Sarah Pinborough (PS Publishing)

Best Short Fiction: "What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night", Michael Marshall Smith (Nightjar)

Best Anthology: The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20, edited by Stephen Jones (Constable and Robinson)

Best Collection: Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman (Big Finish)

The PS Publishing Best Small Press Award: Telos Publishing, David Howe

Best Comic/Graphic Novel: "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?", Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert (DC Comics/Titan Books)

Best Artist: Vincent Chong

Best Non-Fiction: Ansible, David Langford

Best Magazine/Periodical: Murky Depths, edited and published by Terry Martin

Best Television: Doctor Who, head writer: Russell T Davies (BBC Wales)

Best Film: Let the Right One In, directed by Tomas Alfredson (EFTI)

Best Newcomer – the Sydney J. Bounds Award: Kari Sperring, Living with Ghosts (DAW)

The British Fantasy Society Special Award: the Karl Edward Wagner Award: Robert Holdstock

Barring the extraordinary, the next "Out of the Box" should be up tomorrow night.