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| Cory Doctorow/Charles Stross charity appearance to support Open Rights Group | |||
| People > Activities | March 30, 2009 | ||
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Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross will be giving a benefit talk for the Open Rights Group, entitled "Resisting the all-seeing eye" on 1 May in London, England...
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| Elliot Shorter Hospitalized Again | |||
| People > Activities | March 19, 2009 | ||
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Fan Elliot Shorter (aka "Master El of the Two Knives") has again been hospitalized in Rhode Island...
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| Zack Snyder's "Life in Movies" in Newsweek | |||
| People > Activities | March 12, 2009 | ||
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Zack Snyder is the featured filmmaker in the 16 March 2009 Newsweek's "A Life in Movies"...
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| Catherine Asaro's newest novel comes with its own soundtrack, which she helped write | |
| People > Books | March 10, 2009 |
 Catherine Asaro's Diamond Star will be released in May, preceded by the soundtrack, from the band Point Valid, which is coming in April. The book tells of the royal prince-turned-rock-star caught in interstellar political intrigue...
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| Natasha Mostert's new novel to support "Fighting for Peace" | |
| People > Books | February 26, 2009 |
 Some of the proceeds from Natasha Mostert's fifth novel, Keeper of Light and Dust, will go to support the Cooperation for Peace and Unity's "Fighting for Peace", an initiative teaching Afghan women to box...
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| Will F. Jenkins [Murray Leinster] Day declared in Virginia | |
| People > Activities | February 23, 2009 |
 The Virginia State Legislature has declared 27 June 2009 "Will F. Jenkins Day". The date, 113 years, 11 days after the birth of the author who wrote as Murray Leinster, will be celebrated by his family. The text of the resolution...
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| Tom Deitz suffers heart attack | |||
| People > Activities | January 23, 2009 | ||
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Fantasy author Tom Deitz suffered a heart attack and is currently in the hospital...
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| Warren Lapine returns to sf with magazine, books, and checks | |
| People > Publishers | January 22, 2009 |
| After two years of silence, the former publisher of DNA Publications is returning to the speculative fiction fields, launching a magazine and a book line, while covering all the debts of the old company... | |
| Two chances to appear in the final "Wheel of Time" novel | |||
| People > Activities | January 20, 2009 | ||
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Brandon Sanderson is offering readers several chances to appear in the final "Wheel of Time" book. The opportunities are fund-raisers for Heifer International...
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| Ellen Datlow seeking recommendations of sf/f/h cat stories | |||
| People > Books | January 20, 2009 | ||
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Editor Ellen Datlow is soliciting suggestions for a reprint anthology of sf/f/h cat stories from the past twenty years...
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| Ellen Datlow reading for Best Horror of the Year | |||
| People > Books | January 16, 2009 | ||
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After the recently announced death of the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthology series, founder Ellen Datlow announces she's reading for a new Best Horror of the Year anthology, to be published by Night Shade Books...
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| Michael A. Burstein to edit special issue of Apex Magazine | |||
| People > Magazines | January 14, 2009 | ||
 In honor of his Apex-published collection I Remember the Future, Michael A. Burstein will edit the April issue of Apex Magazine with a related theme...
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| Author Stephen Goldin suffers "ministroke" | |||
| People > Activities | January 13, 2009 | ||
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Author Stephen Goldin suffered a Transient Ischemic Attack, or "ministroke", last week, but appears to have no lingering ill effects therefrom...
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| Catherine Asaro's "The Spacetime Pool" available for free | |||
| People > Authors | January 13, 2009 | ||
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Catherine Asaro has posted her novella "The Spacetime Pool", which first appeared in Analog and is currently on the preliminary Nebula ballot, on her Facebook page...
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| Robert J. Sawyer to be writer-in-residence at Canadian synchrotron | |||
| People > Activities | January 7, 2009 | ||
 Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer is following up his 2005 visit to Canadian Light Source by being named the facility's first writer-in-residence, for two months this summer...
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| Author Terry Pratchett to be knighted | |||
| People > Activities | January 7, 2009 | ||
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British author Terry Pratchett, OBE, appears on the Queen's New Year's Honours list to be named a Knight Bachelor...
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| Friends of Ed looking for donations to help Ed Bryant | |||
| People > Activities | January 5, 2009 | ||
 Writer, reviewer, and teacher Ed Bryant is in hard financial straits, and a group of his friends and neighbors has formed a third-party trust fund to help him out...
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| Eugene C. Myers now represented by JABberwocky Literary Agency | |||
| People > Activities | December 16, 2008 | ||
 Eugene C. Myers is now represented by Eddie Schneider of the JABberwocky Literary Agency. Schneider is Joshua Bilmes's new number two, and Myers is his first client with the firm...
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| Actor Peter Falk suffering from Alzheimer's | |||
| People > Activities | December 16, 2008 | ||
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The actor best known for his television role Columbo also appeared in The Princess Bride...
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| Orson Scott Card featured at B&N's SF Book Club | |||
| People > Activities | December 8, 2008 | ||
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Orson Scott Card is the featured author for Barnes & Noble's SF Book Club from 8 to 11 December. He 'appears' at the online book club forum at least once every day during that time to answer some questions and/or respond to reader comments...
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| Leigh Grossman update: good news | |||
| People > Activities | December 1, 2008 | ||
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Updating our previous article, Leigh Grossman reports that he is "home now, still weak and heavily medicated but doing hugely better." He sends his appreications for all the good thoughts and love.
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| Leigh Grossman Hospitalized | |||
| People > Activities | November 21, 2008 | ||
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Editor/Publisher Leigh Grossman has been hospitalized with interstitial pneumonitis and acute respiratory failure, the result of a vent pipe leak in his office...
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| Author Tobias Buckell Hospitalized | |||
| People > Activities | November 18, 2008 | ||
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Tobias Buckell has been hospitalized and is undergoing tests to determine precisely what is wrong. Heart trouble seems indicated...
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| Forry Ackerman Health Update | |||
| People > Activities | November 14, 2008 | ||
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Forry Ackerman is showing some improvement, due in part to the massive outpouring of good wishes he's been receiving...
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| Brian Francis Slattery book launch in Brooklyn, NY, tonight | |||
| People > Activities | November 14, 2008 | ||
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Brian Francis Slattery is launching his newest novel, Liberation, with an out-of-the-ordinary launch party in Red Hook (Brooklyn)'s Sunny's Bar tonight...
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