Tag Archives: US

Preorder Dark Faith 2: Invocations with Dark Faith and save 30%, plus free shipping

Apex is offering 30% off on pre-orders of their new anthology, Dark Faith 2: Invocations, when purchased with the first volume…

SF author Edward Willett’s Circle the Crops to celebrate city centennial

Former resident Edward Willett has written a science fiction-comedy play, Circle the Crops, which will be performed next summer to celebrate the centennial of the city of Weyburn, Saskatchewan…

The invasion has begun! War of the Worlds: Goliath exclusive US premiere at Comic Con

War of the World: Goliath will be an animated reunion of Highlander actors, premiering at San Diego Comic Con, following the aftermath of the Martian invasion…

Italian deal for Mark Charan Newton

Italian publisher Gargoyle bought rights to Mark Charan Newton’s Nights of Villjamur

Balticon weekend

Off to Balticon for the weekend. See y’all next week (unless we see some of you this weekend)…

Top Box Office Grossers: First Week in May 2012

The Avengers opens. Need we say more?…

2012 Philip K. Dick Award Winner

This year’s Philip K. Dick Award for best original US paperback sf novel goes to The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden, with a special citation to The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett…

Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week in March 2012

The Hunger Games opened. Were there any other movies taking in any money at the box office?…

2012 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Named

The five judges of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback science fiction novel have been named…

Top Box Office Grossers: Third Week in February 2012

A couple new movies this week, but no blockbusters. Perhaps the industry was holding its breath waiting for the Oscars…

Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future from the makers of New Scientist

New Scientist is launching its own sf magazine, Arc, which will be an electronic publication…

Christopher Samuel Youd, who wrote as John Christopher, dies

Christopher Samuel Youd (1922-2012) was a full-time writer under a variety of pseudonyms, chiefly John Christopher, since 1958. He was the author of No Blade of Grass and the Nebula-nominee A Few Kindred Spirits…

What’s that thing on Werhner von Braun’s desk?

More a case of science fact becoming science fiction, Werhner von Braun was important in both the development of modern American rocketry, and the development of modern science fiction. He was honored for his achievements…

PM Press rereleasing Byzantium Endures and The Laughter of Carthage by Michael Moorcock

PM Press is releasing the first two volumes of Michael Moorcock’s Pyat Quartet in the coming months…

Penguin Press buys North American rights to Lewis Dartnell’s Aftermath

Recently announced big-ticket non-fiction volume Aftermath has acquired a North American publisher for $500,000…