Update

I am currently reading Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott, the first novel in her new Crossroads series.

With the American Writer's Strike still in full swing, there is a dearth of SF TV at the moment, although Lost returns for a short (eight episode) fourth season in February 2008 and Battlestar Galactica follows with ten new episodes airing from the end of March.

Fans of the Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence will no doubt be intrigued by the news that Ian Cameron Esslemont's second contribution to the series, Return of the Crimson Guard, will have a limited two-volume edition released by PS Publishing several months prior to the 'official' publication of the novel by Bantam UK. The covers for this edition have now been released on the PS website and are very nice indeed.

Users of Amazon.co.uk may be intrigued to learn the PC roleplaying game based on Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series of novels and collections is currently half-price, and the DVD box sets of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are currently retailing at a very respectable £17.99 apiece.