Just read on Joystiq about Gears of War getting a prequel book ... I'm really not sure if I should be excited about it or not. The story of the game was quite interesting for me and the end was definitely tailored in a way to make the game open to novells and stuff. Nothing heard about it yet but if this book is mostly about the background of Marcus Fenix and also about why he supposedly became a "traitor", I'm not really interested. And given that the title of the book is supposed to be "The Pendulum Wars" it's quite a fair guess :-(
Over several decades, the Pendulum Wars took place between various human countries, and ended with the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) taking control of the planet. The war quickly came to an end on "Emergence Day", when a ravenous force known as the Locust Horde bursts from underneath major human cities using a network of underground tunnels.
So I guess nothing new about the Locust in there, something that would have been (at least for me) way more interesting.
A few days ago I learned via a post by 
Every now and then I come across a site that really makes me come back
every other minute. So happened 2 days ago with 
One of the longest story-lines in the Star Trek universe is definitely
the one about those almighty beings called the Q. They, together with their
most well known representative Q (portraid by John de Lancie), had their first
appearance right in the first episode of the second Star Trek show: Star Trek:
The Next Generation and since then appeared in not only a couple of other
TNG-episodes (including the last one) but also in DS9 and Voyager. With 