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Garrett Putnam Serviss
2008-02-29 00:00:00
Some of the earliest Science Fiction books were written by Garrett Putnam Serviss.Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York, and majored in science at Cornell. He took a law degree at Columbia, but never worked as an attorney. Instead, in 1876 he joined the staff of the New York Sun newspaper, working as a journalist until 1892 under editor Charles Dana. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader, leading Andrew Carnegie to invite him to deliver The Urania Lectures on cosmology, astronomy, geology, and related matters. With Carnegie's financial backing, these lectures were illustrated with magic lantern slides and other effects to show eclipses, presumed lunar landscapes, and much else. Serviss toured the United States for over two years delivering these lectures, then settling down to become a popular speak...

Agatha Christie
2008-02-29 00:00:00
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE (15 September 1890 ? 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie , was an English crime fiction writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.Christie has been called ? by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others ? the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels. UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated individual author in the world with only the collective corporate wor...
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Cory Doctorow, science fiction books on the DS
2008-02-29 00:00:00
We are proud to present some contemporary Science Fiction , in the form of Cory Doctorow 's works. A Place so ForeignCraphoundDown and Out in the Magic KingdomEastern Standard TribeEBooks , Neither E nor BooksHome Again Home AgainReturn to Pleasure IslandShadow of the MothashipSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownSuper Man And The Bug OutOverclockedFor more information on Cory Doctorow, his books, and links to purchase his books, visit his website at: [link] Download Cory Doctorow
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Insecticide DS Goes Gold!
2008-02-21 00:00:00
Today Crackpot Entertainment and Gamecock Media Group have announced that Insecticide DS has gone gold! Your chance to join the ranks of Troi?s Insecticide Squad is just about here with the DS version shipping March 11, 2008. Also keep an eye out for the Downloadable Bi-sodic PC version coming soon!Mike Wilson, Grand Champeen of Gamecock Media Group has gone on record with his testimony: "We are so excited to bring DS gamers another rich, deep, 3D experience. The guys at Crackpot just kept putting on the polish in the final stages and delivered a fantastic game that will please action and adventure fans. It?s an amazing balance they've achieved."If you?re out of the loop on Insecticide, take a look at [link] and get a taste of the noir-style detective story that will pull you in faster than a moth to a lightbulb!
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Return of the Ghostbusters
2008-02-21 00:00:00
The Moon Books Project and Braxtan Film (braxtanfilm.com) are proud to present the Nintendo DS version of Return of the Ghostbusters .The mile high city is rocked when an ancient Egyptian menace comes to town, and the Denver Ghostbusters must return to save the universe once more. In this sequel to the internet cult hit Freddy VS Ghostbusters, the boys in gray find themselves up to their eyeballs in spooks, as a greater threat looms on the horizon...A talented cast and crew made up entirely of volunteers (see also: fanatics) worked over the internet and across borders for over two years. Featuring dazzling special effects, an original score, and an engaging story inhabited by quirky characters, this feature length film is a truly one of a kind fan made experience. Download Return of the Ghostbusters

Movies for $1
2008-02-17 00:00:00
I have started a new website called The Dollar Cinema, with some choice classic films for sale on DVD for $1.Everyone be sure to check it out. The Dollar Cinema
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GarageGames Announces Torque for Wii 1.5
2008-02-16 00:00:00
GarageGames, the leading technology provider for independent game developers, together with Pronto Games, co-developer on Torque for Wii, has announced a host of updates including the the 2D drag and drop functionality of Torque Game Builder to their Nintendo Wii game development solution.First unveiled at the Nintendo Developer Conference in June, Torque for Wii features extensible Wii Remote support, Wii optimized skinned mesh rendering, compressed texture, interior support, and hardware blending for terrain textures. Developers will also find a powerful WYSIWYG tool chain for designers, scripting language support, a comprehensive Lot Check compliance component, and Wii graphics and audio abstraction layers."We're thrilled to have had one of the first affordable solutions out there for Wii game development and with the huge success of the Wii platform, developer interest Torque for Wii has been off the charts," said Brett Seyler, GarageGames VP of Business Development. "Torque fo...

NDS Homebrew News Blog
2008-02-16 00:00:00
The Moon Books Project staff has set up a homebrew news blog. It basically gathers all of the NDS homebrew news from various news sites into one handy location. If you know of any news sites you would like to see news from, please let us know. NDS Homebrew News
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Read Conan Books on the Nintendo DS
2008-02-16 00:00:00
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a fictional character often associated with the fantasy subgenre sword-and-sorcery (also known as heroic fantasy). He has been credited with being the most famous fictional barbarian, and indeed one of the best known and most universally recognizable iconic figures in modern popular culture.Created by American writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories sold to Weird Tales magazine, the character has since appeared in licensed books, comics, films, television programs, and video games, contributing to his long-standing popularity.And now you can read Robert E. Howard's Conan series of books on the Nintendo DS.Included in this archive are the following books:* The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)* The Scarlet Citadel (1933)* The Tower of the Elephant (1933)* Black Colossus (1933)* The Slithering Shadow (1933)* The Pool of the Black One (1933)* Rogues in the House (1934...
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The Image Of Bruce Lee
2008-02-12 00:00:00
The Image of Bruce Lee was originally released in Hong Kong as Meng nan da zei yan zhi hu (Internation English title: Storming Attacks), although the Bruceploitation title was added for its American release. On the website Bruceploitation, 'Keith' more or less sums up the appeal of the film by writing: "Oh yeah kung fu carnage and gratuitous full frontal nudity, with a formula that like that you can't go wrong! I liked this movie it was cool. Every five minutes somebody was getting in a fight except one time, but that was a part with the nudity, so that makes up for it. Watch this movie if you can cuz it's good." Download The Image Of Bruce Lee

The Bible on the Nintendo DS
2008-02-12 00:00:00
The Moon Books Project is proud to announce the availability of an excellent homebrew bible application for the Nintendo DS. This software has been created for ease of use, and allows you to quickly switch from one verse or book to another. Speaking of books, there are five different translations available: KJV, ASV, BBE, WEB, and NET. Download The Bible for the Nintendo DS
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A Boy And His Dog
2008-02-12 00:00:00
A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by L. Q. Jones and based on the Harlan Ellison short story of the same title, which originally appeared in 1969. A revised and expanded version was printed in Ellison's 1976 story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, and Ellison continued the story in the graphic novel Vic and Blood. The film version is often cited as an inspiration for George Miller's Mad Max though Miller has said he didn't view Jones' film until after he had completed his own. The movie was also distributed after the initial run under the name, "Psycho Boy and His Killer Dog" among other titles.This is a post-apocalyptic tale in which the earth's surface is devastated by nuclear war, and the few survivors who stayed above ground must forage and fight for food, ammo, and women. Of these necessities, women are the rarest finds; as explained in the movie, most survivors are male because while the males were o...

Hercules Film Festival
2008-02-09 00:00:00
In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera," was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, nephew of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules , with whom the later Roman Emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximianus, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.Extraordinary strength, courage, ingenuity, and sexual prowess with both males and females were among his characteristic attributes. Although he was not as clever as the likes of Odysseus or Nestor, Heracles used h...
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Of Human Bondage
2008-02-07 00:00:00
The 1934 film Of Human Bondage was the first film adaptation of the 1915 novel of the same name by the British author W. Somerset Maugham.The novel Of Human Bondage is a strongly autobiographical work that, although it is in itself a work of fiction, draws several of its scenes directly from the life of its author.The 1934 film was the first film to bring real critical success to its star Bette Davis, who would later refer to her acting career in terms of two stages - "before Maugham" and "after Maugham".The tragic adaptation about a crippled doctor's destructive and compulsive passion for a coarse waitress was advertised with the tagline on one of its posters: "The Love That Lifted a Man to Paradise...and Hurled Him Back to Earth Again." The melodramatic film was remade in 1946 with Eleanor Parker and Paul Henreid, and again in 1964 with Kim Novak and Laurence Harvey. This film is mostly known because Bette Davis' star-making, over-the-top, theatrical performance was passed over ...

Teenagers From Outer Space
2008-02-06 00:00:00
Teenagers from Outer Space is a 1959 science-fiction B-movie about an extraterrestrial ship landing on Earth to use it as a farm for its food supply. The crew of the ship includes several teenagers (who ironically look quite old for teenagers), two of whom oppose each other in their activities. The independent film was originally distributed by Warner Brothers.Teenagers from Outer Space was filmed on location in and around Hollywood, California, with a number of tell-tale landmarks like Bronson Canyon in Griffith Park and Hollywood High School giving away the film's hazy locale. One notable aspect of the film is that it was largely the work of a single person, Tom Graeff (1929-1970), who, in addition to playing the role of reporter Joe Rogers, wrote, directed, edited, and produced the film, on which he also provided cinematography, special effects, and music coordination. Producers Bryan and Ursula Pearson ("Thor" and "Hilda") and Gene Sterling ("The Leader") provided the film's $...
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Hyena AudioGame Player for the DS
2008-02-06 00:00:00
Hyena is an AudioGame player for multiple platforms.Inspired by the AudioBooks, Hyena allows game-books to be played with only sound and just one button. This makes it possible to play games while your body is occupied with other things, like driving or out running (or while sitting in Church ).Hyena v1.00 is bundled with: Lone Wolf - Flight From The Dark, by Joe Dever and Gary Chalk - [link] and with speech synthisis generated by NeoSpeech - [link]Homepage at [link]Brandon's Note: I am very excited about this piece of homebrew. It is an idea that is completely new, and works extremely well. Download Hyena digg_url = 'http://digg.com/nintendo/Hyena_AudioGame _Player _for_the_DS';
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Moon Books Interviews Rob Van Dam
2008-02-04 00:00:00
Recently The Moon Books Project was graced with an opportunity to interview Rob Van Dam. Below is the result of said interview.MB: did you come up with the van dam gimmick?RVD: Wrestling promoter Ron Slinker came up with it in 1991.MB: is your relationship with sabu still the same?RVD: Yes. He will be on RVD TV at robvandam.comMB: was it your first in ring persona?RVD: Sabu? Of course not.(editorial note - oops, our bad)MB: how did you ever summon up the courage to do the somersault over the rails into the crowd?RVD: I have a very large comfort zone and I'm out to impress!MB: what was your relationship with mick foley like in ecw? friends? rivals? just business?RVD: He was gone before I got there but we're friends now.MB: what do you think of the current state of ecw? do you agree its now smackdown lite? just a "c" level brand? will it ever be of what it was?RVD: I agree that it looks like the weakest of the 3 brands and they don't want ...
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Escape From Sobibor
2008-02-04 00:00:00
Escape from Sobibor is a made-for-TV film which aired in 1987 on the Columbia Broadcasting System. It deals with the extermination camp at Sobibór, the site of the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (there were two other uprisings, at Auschwitz and Treblinka). The film was directed by Jack Gold.On October 14th, 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance succeeded in covertly killing eleven SS and a number of Ukrainian guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, although most were later re-captured and killed. The escape forced the Nazis to close the death camp, dismantling it and planting a forest to hide what they had done.The screenplay was based on the book of the same name written by Richard Rashke. Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer were the primary stars of the film. After it was filmed at Avala, Yugoslavia, Rutger Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television). Download Escape Fro...
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Penny Serenade
2008-02-04 00:00:00
Penny Serenade (1941) is a film melodrama starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, and Edgar Buchanan. It was directed by George Stevens and written by Martha Cheavens and Morrie Ryskind.Cary Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.Roger (Cary Grant) and Julie Adams (Irene Dunne) suffer a tragedy when she miscarries in an earthquake. They are told that she cannot have children. They adopt a girl, but must struggle to make ends meet and to retain their parental rights when Roger loses his job. When the little girl dies suddenly, the emotional strain threatens to destroy their marriage. The songs that mark episodes in the action are from records from their collection. The title refers to a song of the same name. At the end, they are offered the opportunity of adopting a little boy, miraculously saving their marriage. Download Penny Serenade
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we need a new logo...
2008-02-04 00:00:00
anyone want to make us a new logo?check out the top left graphic to see what we are looking for. should look good on black.
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Frankenstein's Daughter
2008-01-31 00:00:00
Frankenstein's Daughter , released theatrically December 15, 1958, was the third of four drive-in classics crafted by producer Marc Frederic and director Richard Cunha in their late-'50s moviemaking heyday.Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A. Download Frankenstein's Daughter

Svengali
2008-01-31 00:00:00
Svengali (1931) is a drama/horror film starring John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, and Bramwell Fletcher, directed by Archie Mayo, written by J. Grubb Alexander, and released by Warner Brothers. It is based on the gothic horror novel Trilby (1894) by George du Maurier. The film was originally released on May 22, 1931. Warner Brothers was so pleased by the boxoffice on this film that the studio hurriedly reteamed Barrymore and Marsh for another horror film The Mad Genius, released November 7, 1931. Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. He meets a beautiful model, Trilby, and becomes infatuated with her, but she, in turn, falls for a young artist called Billee who also loves her. One day Svengali hypnotizes Trilby to cure her headache, but also examines her upper palate and decides i...

Faust
2008-01-31 00:00:00
Faust is a classic silent film produced in 1926 by UFA, directed by F.W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, Camilla Horn as Gretchen/Marguerite, Frida Richard as her mother, Wilhelm Dieterle as her brother and Yvette Guilbert as Marthe Schwerdtlein, her aunt. Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic version.This carefully composed and innovative feature contains many memorable images and special effects, with careful attention paid to contrasts of light and dark. Particularly striking is the sequence in which the giant, horned and black winged figure of Mephisto (Jannings) hovers over a town sowing the seeds of plague. The acting by Ekman (who miraculously transforms, in the course of the film, from a bearded old man to a handsome youth) and the sinister, scowling, demonic Jannings is first rate and the virtually unknown actress Camilla Horn gives a memorable performance as the tragic figur...

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
2008-01-28 00:00:00
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away. He abandoned her and a sailor on a mysterious island and has come back after all these years to see if she is still alive and if the nightmares he has will stop. The daughter has been found by five survivors of a Union Army Balloon that crashed near the island. At sea, Professor Aronnax was aboard the ship 'Abraham Lincoln' when Nemo rammed it and threw the Professor, his daughter and two others into the water. Prisoners at first, they are now treated as guests to view the underwater world and to hunt under the waves. Nemo will also tells them about the Nautilus and the revenge that has driven him for all these years. This version is notable for its groundbreaking work in actual underwater photography by George M. Willi...
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Bleh... I'm sick / Lack of updates
2008-01-26 00:00:00
Due to me being sick, computer problems and life I've been unable to do many updates since Christmas. I am getting a handle on things, so there will be updates again, soon. Brandon
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Powder version 1.00, plus an interview with the author Jeff Lait
2008-01-26 00:00:00
To celebrate 100 releases of Powder, and version 100 we have a miniature interview with the author, Jeff Lait. me: Congrats! Jeff: Thank you! me: no problem, so, when do you plan to add wifi multiplayer? Jeff: Shortly after the heat death of the universe.wifi shared bone files might be doable, though me: hmm... actually that's a good idea... you could create a communal graveyard me: or a special graveyard level Jeff: Likewise some form of lobby for the ascended Jeff: But, many other things first Download Powder
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Autism Speaks
2008-01-20 00:00:00
The band, Five for Fighting, is generously donating $0.40 to Autism Speaks for each time the video is viewed. The funding goes toward research studies to help find a cure. When you have a moment, please visit the link below to watch the video and pass it along to your friends and family.They are aiming for 10,000 hits, but hopefully we can help them to surpass this goal. [link]

Steal This Film 2
2008-01-13 00:00:00
The Moon Books Project, in co-operation with the filmmakers are proud to present to you, the only pirate movies you need to see this year: Steal This Film 2 Steal This Film Two (sometimes subtitled 'The Dissolving Fortress') was produced during 2007. It premiered (in a preliminary version) at a conference in Berlin, Germany in November. A cam version leaked soon after. It was officially released on file sharing networks on December 28, 2007 and, according to the filmmakers, downloaded 150,000 times in the first three days of distribution.Thematically, Part Two examines the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the implications of the internet for copying. It includes an exploration of Mark Getty's infamous statement that "Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century'. It was selected for the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival and is forthcoming at a number of other film festivals worldwide. Download Steal This Film 2

The Grass is Greener
2007-12-20 00:00:00
The Grass Is Greener is a 1960 comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and featuring an ensemble cast consisting of screen veterans Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons. The film was adapted by Hugh Williams and Margaret Vyner from the play of the same name which they had written and found success with in London's West End.While the film was a moderate success at the U.K. box office, it fared much worse in the United States. Reviews of the film were mostly lukewarm. Despite its initial failure, the film has since developed a following and has been a staple of American cable television. At the time of its release, Jean Simmons's performance as a madcap heiress earned some praise for the British stage actress, earning her a Laurel Award nomination. Download The Grass is Greener

Suddenly
2007-12-19 00:00:00
Suddenly is a 1954 American film noir directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale.The drama features Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, among others.The tranquility of a small town is jarred when the U.S. President is scheduled to pass through and a hired assassin takes over the Benson home as a perfect location to ambush the president.Suddenly became part of the colorization controversy in the mid-1980s when the movie was colorized for home video, turning Sinatra's blue eyes brown.Film critic Carl Mazek makes the case that John Baron's "Machiavellian attitude" (Frank Sinatra's character) links the picture with the brutal films noir of the 1950s like The Big Night (1951) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955). Moreover the themes of violence, sense of claustrophobia and despair, mark the film as completely amoral, and, as such, Suddenly is quite opposite of non-noir films like The Desperate Hours (1955).The film received good reviews from the cri...