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Screenlife Games, creator of Scene It?, the number one DVD game, announced the release of Scene It? Star Trek Deluxe Edition. Featuring trivia questions, on-screen puzzlers and real clips from their favorite live-action TV series and movies, the game will challenge and entertain everyone from casual “Star Trek” viewers to the most die-hard fan.

Players boldly go where no one has gone before, as they race around the Flextime® board and test their knowledge of everything from Troublesome Tribbles to Borg Queen factoids. Ideal for parties and gatherings with friends, relatives or favorite Klingons, Scene It? Star Trek Deluxe Edition features Screenlife Games’ patented Optreve® randomization technology, which ensures fresh content after multiple plays, and allows the games to play like no other. Scene It? Star Trek Deluxe Edition is a licensed product from CBS Consumer Products.

For the first time ever, Screenlife Games has created two signature embossed Deluxe Edition collector’s tins for Scene It? Star Trek, including a Captains box, and a limited edition Ships version. All Scene It? Deluxe Edition games contain more content than standard editions and all feature signature embossed collector’s tins. The perfect gift for yourself or anyone you know, for any occasion, the games can be found online and at fine retailers around the world. Please visit http://www.screenlifegames.com for a full list of Scene It? Deluxe Edition games and retailers.

Courtesy of Screenlife Games and Sideways Media, one lucky winner will receive Star Trek Scene It? (the Deluxe Edition)!

Contest is open to U.S. residents only. To enter, post a Star Trek trivia question below. Winner will be chosen from the most creative questions. Multiple entries are allowed. Please, no duplicate questions.
Contest ends July 31. Winner will be chosen on August 1, and notify winners via email.

Good luck!

Here are the books/tv I received in June for review and/or giveaways:

TV:
FOX 2009-2010 Pilot Episodes
FOX’s Virtuality

Titan Books:
Star Trek Official Movie Magazine
Lost: Messages from the Island: The Best of The Official Lost Magazine by Titan Books
Primeval: Fire and Water by Simon Guerrier

Mirrorstone:
Brass Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham
Green Dragon Codex by R.D. Henham
Dragon’s Heart: The Pit Dragon Chronicles by Jane Yolen
Activities Inspired by the Practical Guide Series
Practical Guides Calendar

Ace:
MythOS by Kelly McCullough
Red Gold Bridge by Patrice Sarath
The Dark Reaches by Kristin Landon
Wireless by Charles Stross
Darkness Calls by Marjorie M. Liu

Roc:
Winter Duty: A Novel of the Vampire Earth by E.E. Knight
Vigilante by Laura E. Reeve

Daw:
Rift in the Sky by Julie E. Czerneda
First Rider’s Call by Kristen Britain
Gamer Fantastic by Martin H. Greenberg

Viking:
The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood by Nicholas Meyer
The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Orbit:
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler

Pocket:
Vicious Circle by Linda Robertson

Avon:
Dark Time by Dakota Banks

St. Martin’s:
Evermore by Alyson Noel
Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
The Dark-Hunters, Vol. 1 by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Wizards of the Coast:
Dragons of the Hourglass Mage by Margaret Weis

The Sci Fi Channel, relaunching on July 6th as SyFy, is remaking the 1988 classic scifi movie/series Alien Nation. Tim Minear (Angel, Firefly) is writing the series.

Check out the TVGuide article here:
Tim Minear and SyFy Explore a New Alien Nation:
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Minear-Alien-Nation-1007547.aspx

And more here from SciFiWire:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/07/a-new-alien-nation-series.php

First V, now Alien Nation. Talk about a flash-back to my childhood!

The Calling, by David Mack

Tom Nash seems like an ordinary man with a wife and child on the way. But Tom has a gift. He can hear people’s prayers and feels a compulsion to answer them. When he hears a terrified young girl pleading for her life, Tom knows that he must help her. Tom embarks on a mission to save a kidnapped girl, and along the way discovers that he’s not the only one with special gifts. And not everyone uses them for good.

Mack has created an incredible fantasy world of angels (the Called) and demons (the Scorned), among other super-powered beings. Tom Nash is a good man with a destiny to help people. When faced with deadly adversity, he doesn’t even question what he’s doing. He simply makes up his mind that helping an innocent stranger is his only option. Along the way, he meets another Called like himself, with not as wholesome morals. But the Scorned are pure evil. And when the forces of evil team up with vicious mafia, Tom is confronted with a danger he has never faced before.

The supporting characters are vivid and mysterious. It’s difficult to go into much detail without giving away some surprises. But there are several twists to the story, with some revelations at the end that leave it open-ended for a sequel. Here’s hoping!

The Calling is an exciting, dark and suspenseful urban fantasy tale. Fast-paced and thrilling, this is definitely one of my favorite original novels of the year. This is a must read for urban fantasy fans.

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The Calling releases from Pocket Books on July 21st.

Shadow of Betrayal, by Brett Battles, is the third in his Jonathan Quinn series.

Jonathan Quinn is a professional, contract “cleaner” making bodies disappear and covering tracks. When a simple job gets out of hand, Quinn and his apprentice Nate begin to uncover a vast conspiracy. But when Quinn is targeted for a crime he didn’t commit, things get personal.

Following events in the previous books The Cleaner and The Deceived, Quinn must deal with the consequences of making a decision that cost his apprentice his leg. And with Orlando back in his life, Quinn’s character is growing and changing from who he was in the earlier installments. With loose ends being tied up from previous books, it is helpful to read them in sequential order. In fact, I wish I had read them closer together, as I had forgotten a lot over the past year because of the number of book that I read. But the main characters are hard to forget.

This latest novel also revolves around Marion, a UN worker who mysteriously flees Africa with a young child. We are kept in the dark until the very end, why this ominous group is after Marion and the girl she is trying to protect. With just as much suspense and intensity as Battles’ previous novels, Shadow of Betrayal is another exciting and fun thriller. Don’t miss this series.

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Shadow of Betrayal releases July 7th from Delacorte Press.