Royal Mail to honor Doctor Who
Eleven 1st class Royal Mail stamps will depict all eleven doctors, with an additional sheet for the foes. Enter a contest now to win exclusive merchandise…
Archive for December, 2012
Book Release: Seasons of Insanity by Gill Ainsworth & Frank W. Haubold
Apex Publications’ newest horror anthology examines the causes and consequences of human madness, by Stoker-nominated Gill Ainsworth and Lasswitz-winner Frank W. Haubold…
Kim Harrison’s Ever After available signed if you pre-order
Making up for not being able to travel everywhere, Kim Harrison is offering to sign her forthcoming Ever After for everyone who pre-orders through Nicola’s Books. Additionally, she may appear in either Atlanta or Minneapolis, depending on votes…
British television producer Gerry Anderson dies
British television producer Gerry Anderson (1929-2012) created supermarionation hit Thunderbirds, as well as live-action cult classic Space: 1999…
Deconstructing Tolkien is free December 26 and 27
Padwolf Publishing is offering free Kindle copies of Edward J. McFadden’s Deconstructing Tolkien for two days only. Enhance your enjoyment of the new Hobbit film by digging deeper into Toklien’s master works…
Actor Charles Durning Dies
Actor Charles Durning (1923-2012) won a Golden Gloe, and was nominated for three others, as well as two Oscars, and nine Emmys. He played nearly every type of supporting actor in a career spanning more than fifty years, including Kermit the Frog’s nemesis and a Senator chasing a time-traveling aircraft carrier…
Actor Jack Klugman Dies
Actor Jack Klugman (1922-2012) will be remembered as grumpy sports writer Oscar Madison and insightful coroner Quincy M.E…
Would you like a little comedy with your impending doom?
The Coffee Table Book of Doom presents a full list of possible doomsday scenarios, threatening us all just out of sight in a comic manner to leaven the heavy message…
Top Box Office Grossers – third week in December 2012
Apparently, every studio knows to avoid the release of the next Peter Jackson/J.R.R. Tolkien collaboration, as fully 7 of the top 10 movies are sf/f/h (either fully or partially)…
Long Island, New York’s I-Con 32 Postponed
The 32nd iteration of SUNY-Stony Brook’s annual convention I-Con has been postponed due to financial concerns…
The Apocalypse is free, this weekend only
Padwolf’s anthology Apocalypse 13, edited by Diane Raetz, is free as a Kindle edition, this weekend only…
Amazing Stories opens for Beta Testing of Phase 1 on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
More than fifty writers sign on to provide genre-related content to the relaunching Amazing Stories’ web site….
Daily Science Fiction’s January 2013 line-up
January’s offerings from Daily Science Fiction will include stories by Ken Liu, Melissa Mead, Cat Rambo…
Fantagraphics explores the apocalypse and retells Snow White
Fantagraphics is publishing Tom Kaczynski’s Beta Testing the Apocalypse and Richard Sala’s Delphine in January…
Kevin Hearne sells six to Del Rey
Kevin Hearne’s newest six-book deal with Del Rey includes the three concluding volumes of what will be the nine-book Iron Druid Chronicles…
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