New World rights Deal for Urban Fantasy Writer Suzanne McLeod
Suzanne McLeod has sold two new volumes in her Spellcrackers series to Gollancz…
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Books Received: July 2012
Books received for review during the month of July 2012. This page is updated throughout the month.
Books Received: June 2012
Books received for review during the month of June 2012. This page is updated throughout the month.
Bloomsbury acquires urban fantasy series by Oxford undergraduate Samantha Shannon
Oxford student Samantha Shannon sold the first three books in a planned seven-volume fantasy epic to Bloomsbury. The Bone Season follows a clairvoyant trapped in a future London’s criminal underworld…
The Testament of Jessie Lamb wins Clarke Award
Jane Rogers won this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb…
Sam Humphries’ Higher Earth moves the battle from other planets to other Earths
BOOM! Studios is publishing Sam Humphries’ High Eearth, a sci-fi revenge story set in an empire covering a hundred Earths in alternate time-lines…
London Officially Confirmed as Sole 2014 Worldcon Site Selection Bidder
London in 2014, a bid for the 72nd World Science Fiction convention—in London, UK, from Thursday 14 August to Monday 18 August 2014—looks to be the only bidder…
Chicon 7 Announces London as Sole 2014 Site Selection Bidder
London, England, is the only bidder for the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention…
Heman Chong’s installation turns London gallery into used sf bookstore
Singaporean conceptual artist Heman Chong’s LEM1 has turned Rossi & Rossi’s London art gallery into a functioning second-hand sf bookshop…
Michael Moorcock’s new release: London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
PM Press’ London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction gathers a broad collection of sf icon Michael Moorcock’s published and unpublished nonfiction…
Author Russell Hoban Dies
American-born British author Russell Hoban (1925-2011) wrote The Mouse and His Child, award-winner Riddley Walker, and many more…
Solaris acquire Gaie Sebold fantasy sequel
Gaie Sebold sold a sequel to her forthcoming Babylon Steel to Solaris…
Agent of Inquiry—Madeleine E. Robins’ The Sleeping Partner
This third alternate-history Regency Sarah Tolerance novel in the series hits on all cylinders, returning the reader to a delightful world of scandal, intrigue, and mystery…
2012 TAFF Fund balloting now open, to send a Norht American fan to Europe
The 2012 TransAtlantic Fan Fund will send a North American fan to Olympus, the 2012 Eastercon, in London next April. Nominees are…
1965 WorldCon now online, with LOTS of photos
Rob Hansen’s fandom site has now posted an incredibly in-depth write up of the 1965 World Science Fiction Convention, accompanied by lots of wonderful photos…
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