Yearly Archives: 2008

Forrest J Ackerman suffers heart attack

We've just received word that Forrest J. Ackerman has suffered a serious heart attack, and, according to our correspondent, "is not expected to survive." We'll have more information when we know it... Read more [...]

Beneath Ceaseless Skies launches

New online magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies has already published four stories, and plans two more every two weeks... Read more [...]

Actress/singer Estelle Reiner dies

Actress and singer Estelle Reiner (1914-2008) was married to Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner, though a one-line film role immortalizes her... Read more [...]

Night Shade Books to be available electronically through Baen’s Webscriptions

Night Shade Books is the newest small press publisher to sign on with Baen Books's Webscriptions to distribute their titles electronically... Read more [...]

Sherrilyn Kenyon sells six more to St. Martin’s

Sherrilyn Kenyon sells six more novels (three Dark-Hunter, and there Dream-Hunter) to St. Martin's, bringing her contracted-but-not-yet-published total there to 17... Read more [...]

Daddy Dearest—a review of Pushing Daisies’ “Dim Sum, Lose Some”

New relationships are revealed, new family members are introduced, and once again, wonderful television is created... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Jetse de Vries to edit “optimistic” anthology for Solaris Books

Jetse de Vries will edit Shine, an anthology of near-future, optimistic SF stories, for Solaris Books... Read more [...]

2009 World Fantasy Convention changes its schedule

The 2009 World Fantasy Convention is shifting its weekend to 29 October-1 November 2009... Read more [...]

Abyss & Apex #28 now available

The newest issue of the online sf 'zine includes fiction by Ruth Nestvold, Cat Rambo, Patrick Thomas... Read more [...]

Alaya Dawn Johnson wins SLF Gulliver Travel Grant

Alaya Dawn Johnson won this year's Gulliver Travel Research Grant, awarded by the Speculative Literature Foundation... Read more [...]

F&SF’s February Issue

The February issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will feature fiction by Jack Cady, Charles Coleman Finaly, Mario Milosevic... Read more [...]

Film-maker Gerard Damiano dies

Film-maker Gerard Damiano (1928-2008) will be best remembered for Deep Throat... Read more [...]

Missile Man—a review of Chuck’s “Chuck vs. Tom Sawyer”

The writers are spot on, the direction is great, the actors know their stuff, and even the tiny references are simply wonderful grace notes. Watch this show! (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Ghost Hunters going live for seven hours Halloween night

Ghost Hunters will be running a live, seven-hour program from Fort Delaware on Halloween night, with live feeds... Read more [...]

Jennifer Hunt promoted to Editorial Director at Little, Brown BfYR

Jennifer Hunt has been promoted to Editorial Director of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers... Read more [...]

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