io9: book trailers

Only A Book Trailer With Nothing To Lose Could Bring So Much Spicy Death Sauce

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:00:00 PST

Here's the most crashtastic book trailer we've seen in ages. A man with a past finds a crashed 747 full of corpses, including the First Lady... and bad guys have stolen a secret technology. Witness the insanity of The Breach.

A Lovely Cyborg Ponders Her Existence, In A Book Trailer That Looks Like A Video-Game Cut Scene

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:11:40 PDT

Former video-game programmer David J. Williams' novel, The Burning Skies, comes out soon, and his Homeworld collaborator Paul Ruskay crafted this haunting book trailer. A lovely cyborg ponders whether she's inhuman... or more than human.

See For Yourself The Terrible Truth Of Our Forgotten Iguana Atrocity

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:30:00 PST

Here's archival footage of military experiments with giant lizards during World War II. We reviewed Morrow's book Shambling Towards Hiroshima, and here's an exclusive look at the trailer. NSFLH="not safe for lizard-haters."

Show Your Book Trailer To Movie Audiences — And Stephen King

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:00 PDT

We've already told you about the hot trend of Youtube trailers for books, and now it's going to the next level — a book trailer chosen by Stephen King will appear in movie theaters.

Okay, so it's only a couple of theaters: at a New York city movie premiere and in the winner's hometown. But that's still pretty awesome. The trailer must be a promo for a book published by Shomi, an imprint of Dorchester that publishes books combining fantasy, science fiction, cyberpunk, thrillers and romance. To enter the Shomi contest, upload your trailer to Youtube. Before you start pitying Stephen King for having to sit through tons of trailers for cyberpunk time-travel romance novels, be reassured: he only has to watch the five finalists, as chosen by Shomi. Presumably he'll be judging them against the high standards of his own directorial debut. [Galleycat]