Pre-emptive German deal for Ben Peek

Piper Verlag has acquired German rights to Ben Peek’s Children fantasy trilogy…

‘Zoo City’ author Lauren Beukes pens new introduction to Halo Jones

Lauren Beukes is writing a new introduction to Ravenstone’s new edition of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s “The Ballad of Halo Jones”…

Books Received: Second Half of December 2012

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. (Book One of The Crescent Moon Kingdoms), DAW, $7.99, 368pp, pb, 9780756407780. Fantasy.

From Saladin Ahmed, finalist for the Nebula and Capbell Awards, comes one of the year’s most acclaimed debuts: Throne of the Crescent Moon, a fantasy adventure with all the magic of The Arabian Nights.… Read the rest

Dark Horse Announces the Promotion of Scott Allie to Editor in Chief

After eighteen years with the company, Scott Allie has been promoted to Editor in Chief at Dark Horse Comies…

Books Received: first half of September 2012

Books received for review during the first half of September 2012…

Top Box Office Grossers: End of August

Back-to-school means the end of sf’s domination of the box office…

SFScope transfer hiccups

As you can see, we’re still working on the transfer of SFScope. One of the newest hiccups is e-mail: if you used the “Contact Us” form or e-mailed editor [at] sfscope [dot] com in the last few days, your message has probably disappeared into the aether between the old and the new servers.… Read the rest

NASA Mars rover begins driving at Bradbury Landing

NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Curiosity, has started actually roving. And the landing site has been renamed for SF icon Ray Bradbury…

MonsterLibrarian Press Release: July is Monster Movie Month!

The Monster Librarian horror blog is celebrating July by talking about Monster Movies…

LFS Prometheus Newsletters Available Online

The Libertarian Futurist Society has decided to make its newsletters publicly available on its web site. At the moment, they’re digitizing the past 30 years’ worth (five years are already available), and will be posting new issues…

BFS Open Day to feature Stephen Jones & Les Edwards book launch

Stephen Jones and Les Edwards will be launching their new collection, Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M.R. James, at the British Fantasy Society’s Open Day on June 16…

Pottermore now scheduled to launch in April

The forces behind the long-anticipated Pottermore web site have announced an expected launch date in early April…

Stephen Gustav launches ‘The Really Big Idea’

Stephen Gustav launches ‘The Really Big Idea’ to interview small-press and independent authors about the underpinnings of their new novels…

World SF Blog Call for Fiction Submissions

The World SF Blog is seeking all sorts of speculative fiction submissions, reflecting its mandate to gather sf from around the globe…

World SF Blog to merge with The Portal; Expand Operations

Lavie Tidhar’s World SF Blog is absorbing Val Grimm’s The Portal to expand operations for both blogs focused on sf around the globe…