Yearly Archives: 2008

Orbit buys fantasy novels from Joe Abercrombie, Jesse Bullington, Gail Carriger, and N.K. Jemisin

Orbit Books recenty bought four fantasy novels: debuts from Jesse Bullington, Gail Carriger, and N.K. Jemisin, and a new books related to the First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie... Read more [...]

Michael Chabon to speak at University of Kansas

Nebula- and Pulitzer-winning novelist Michael Chabon will speak in late October on "Conquering the Wilderness: Imaginative Imperialism and the Invasion of Legoland"... Read more [...]

2008 British Fantasy Award Nominees

The British Fantasy Society announced the nominees for the eight categories of British Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced in late September. The nominees are... Read more [...]

WorldCon Day Three: Featuring the Masquerade. Commentary, and Announcements

The third day of this year's WorldCon will be capped by the Masquerade. Experiences and impressions shared here... Read more [...]

Chesley Award winners NOT announced

The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Awards are delaying the announcement of their Chesley Award winners, because they were unable to get a ballot to the members in time for a typical WorldCon announcement... Read more [...]

Apex Digest’s 28 July and 4 August issues

New content online from Apex Digest includes fiction by Maurice Broaddus, Andrew C. Porter, and Wrath James White... Read more [...]

Clarkesworld magazine’s August issue

The newest issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by Theodora Goss, Yoon Ha Lee, and Meghan McCarron... Read more [...]

Imagineer Harriett Burns Dies

Artist/designer Harriet Burns (1928-2008) was the first female Imagineer working for Walt Disney. She had a hand in the designs of... Read more [...]

Circlet Press to publish erotic e-chapbooks

Publisher Cecilia Tan notes that Circlet's new line of erotic steampunk and erotic high fantasy will be anthologies of 3-6 stories, harkening back to the line's roots of publishing chapbooks... Read more [...]

Laura Anne Gilman delivers the first of her new “Paranormal CSI” series

Laura Anne Gilman delivered Hard Magic, the first of the "Paranormal Crime Scene Investigators" series set in the same world as her now-five (with a sixth expected)-book "Retrievers" series, to editor Mary-Theresa Hussey at Luna. Read more [...]

Andrew Fox delivers The Good Humor Man

Andrew Fox has delivered the manuscript for The Good Humor Man, or, Calorie 3501 to Marty Halpern at Tachyon Publications for a March 2009 release... Read more [...]

SpaceWesterns senryu winners announced

The winners of the most recent SpaceWesterns poetry contest, in the form of Japanese senryus, have been announced... Read more [...]

WorldCon Day Two: Is it everything we’d hoped?

This is the open comment thread for WorldCon impressions and expressions... Read more [...]

2008 World Fantasy Award Nominees

The nominees for this year's World Fantasy Awards, as well as the Life Achievement Award winners, have been announced... Read more [...]

English illustrator Pauline Baynes dies

Illustrator Pauline Baynes (1922-2008) was best known for her illustrations of J.R.R. Tolkien's work and C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia Read more [...]

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