Past Author Readings & Signings: third of 2008
Author Readings & Signings that have already been, starting with mid-August 2008.
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Ignatz Award Nominees
Nominees for the 12th annual jury-nominated, reader-voted awards for independent cartooning and comics art are...
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Sunburst Award Winners Named
The winners of this year's Sunburst Awards for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic are...
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Songwriter/producer Norman Whitfield dies
Songwriter, producer, and arranger Norman Whitfield (1941-2008) won a Grammy for the score of Car Wash, wrote "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and contributed to the soundtracks of...
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Eoin Colfer to finish Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide series
Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer has been tapped by Douglas Adams's widow to write the sixth, final (?) volume in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy...
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Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series Features YA Fantasy Authors Holly Black and Lauren McLaughlin
This month's Fantastic Fictiton at KGB readings featured funny YA stories adults could enjoy, too...
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New webzine Polu Texni launches with fiction and non-fiction
Webzine Polu Texni will publish fiction and non-fiction about mixed-media arts and speculative or weird fiction. Current contributors include Pat Lillich, Jack Skillingstead, and Adam Rurik...
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Ian Whates now represented by John Jarrold Literary Agency
British author and editor Ian Whates recently completed his first novel, and is now represented (as an author) by the John Jarrold Literary Agency...
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Flurb #6 now available
Rudy Rucker's "webzine of astonishing tales" includes work by Michael Blumlein, Charles Platt, Bruce Sterling...
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Tor offering free e-books by two World Fantasy Award finalists
Tor Books is offering, for a limited time, free e-books by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly. Bull's Territory and Shetterly's The Gospel of the Knife are both finalists for the World Fantasy Award...
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Antipodean SF’s September-October 2008 Issue
Antipodean SF has posted its September-October 2008 issue. The online 'zine focuses on Australian short-short sf, and includes...
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“Who Wants to be a Voice Actor?” to be an open contest at New York Anime Festival
Attendees at next weekend's New York Anime Festival will have the chance to compete for a part in an upcoming animated series. Full entry details...
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No Explanation Necessary—a review of Fringe’s “The Same Old Story”
Viewers are more savvy, and more up-to-date on current science, than the writers of the show wish to believe. That may be a big problem if they don't start doing some research... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Neal Stephenson reads Anathem
Neal Stephenson reads the first 19 minutes of his new novel, Anathem, in this free video...
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Next week’s Batman and Robin recalled
Next week's release of All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder #10 has been recalled by publisher DC Comics...
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