Tom Easton retiring from Analog
After 30 years and 341 columns, book reviewer Tom Easton will no longer write Analog's "Reference Library" column...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Updates to Previously Published Articles (11-17 May 2008)
This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 11 and 17 May 2008.
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Ben Bova’s Laugh Lines make a point
Ben Bova's reprint collection Laugh Lines uses all-too-rare comic science fiction to make social commentary...
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Tarzan-creator’s grandson Danton Burroughs dies
Danton Burroughs (1944-2008) protected the estate left by his grandfather, Edgar Rice Burroughs...
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Hocus Pocus a novel of magic with actual lessons
Paul Kieve's Hocus Pocus: A Tale of Magnificent Magicians is a novel taking its inspiration from the world's greatest magicians, but also teaching tricks...
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Sci Fi to explore the “Mystery of the Crystal Skulls”
The Sci Fi Channel's special looking into the facts behind the objects that are the basis of the newest Indiana Jones movie airs Sunday...
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Cartoonist Will Elder Dies
Cartoonist Will Elder (1921-2008) was best known for his connection to MAD Magazine and his creation of "Little Annie Fanny"...
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Realms of Fantasy’s newest purchases
Realms of Fantasy is buying nine stories, including works by Gregory Frost, Richard Parks, Jim Van Pelt...
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Jay Lake is on the mend
Jay Lake reports positive news about his recent cancer treatment: a clean pathology report...
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Michael Jasper now represented by FinePrint
Michael Jasper has published three books, and has two more scheduled from Prime Books. Now he's represented by Colleen Lindsay...
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Del Rey Book of SF Launched at NYRSF Reading
The NYRSF Reading Series hosted an extracurricular event Tuesday evening, launching Ellen Datlow's newest anthology, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy...
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Actor John Phillip Law Dies
Actor John Phillip Law (1937-2008) was the blind angel Pygar in Barbarella and Sinbad in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad...
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Dark Horse publishing retrospective of the Workshop of Filthy Creations
Johnny Ace and Kali Verra's Workshop of Filthy Creation has generated iconic art for hot-rods, punk rock, and more...
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Top Shelf launching webcomics site
Top Shelf Comix is spinning off its occasional webcomic publishing into an entirely new site: Top Shelf 2.0, which will launch Friday, and then have daily updates...
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Heliotrope’s Spring 2008 issue available
Heliotrope's fourth issue is available, with content by Ian R. MacLeod, Nick Mamatas, Jeff VanderMeer...
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