Karen Traviss writing Gears of War novelization
Karen Traviss's Gears of War novel The Battle of Aspho Fields is scheduled to be published at the end of October...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Boom! Studios and Disney Publishing team up to bring Pixar films to comic books
Boom! Studios and Disney Publishing Worldwide have teamed up to allow Boom! to publish comic books for kids based on most of Pixar's films, including The Incredibles, Toy Story...
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Asylum of Horrors to be new quarterly horror anthology comic
Frank Forte's Asylum Press will publish his quarterly The Asylum of Horrors, about the mad doctor running the asylum, debuting in September...
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Cinema Spec seeking stories about the future of moving pictures
Karen A. Romanko will begin reading for Cinema Spec, a follow-up to her anthology Sporty Spec...
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Paul Haines battling cancer; friends seek donations
Australian author Paul Haines is battling liver cancer after beating back bowel cancer. He writes...
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Reading tonight in Philadelphia; soon in New York
See Gardner Dozois, Tom Purdom, and Michael Swanwick tonight in Philadelphia. James Patrick Kelly and Jeff Somers in a few weeks in New York. And photos of past readings...
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New webzine Beneath Ceaseless Skies in the works
Scott H. Andrews plans to launch online fantasy zine Beneath Ceaseless Skies, paying five cents a word for fiction...
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Last chance to get Tor’s free ebooks
Tor's free ebook program ends with one final chance to download any or all of the titles they've been offering, as well as one new book...
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Mythic Delirium temporarily closing to submissions
Editor Mike Allen is temporarily closing Mythic Delirium to submissions, both to catch up, and because he's full up...
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Afterburn SF’s June and July issues
The latest stories at Afterburn SF include works by Tim McDaniel, Ryan McFadden, A.M. Pearce, and Lisa von Biela...
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Prometheus Award Winners Announced
The winners of this year's Prometheus Awards, for libertairan science fiction, have been announced (though the actual presentations will be during WorldCon). This year, for the first time, there's a tie...
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Publicity promotions at William Morrow
Jack Womack was promoted to associate director of William Morrow's publicity department. Brianne Halverson and Jennifer Slattery were promoted to senior publicity manager.
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Hadley Rille Updates
Hadley Rille Books will be publishing The Best of Abyss & Apex, reading for Footprints, and announcing the winners of the "Return to Luna" writing contest...
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The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy Shines
Ellen Datlow's non-theme anthology has a drab title, but contents that shine with brilliance, according to Mark L. Blackman...
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Actress Estelle Getty Dies
Actress Estelle Getty (1923-2008) was best known as Bea Arthur's mother in The Golden Girls, but she made a few genre appearances...
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