Death Note to appear nationwide for two nights
The live-action film based on the animated and manga series Death Note will be shown simultaneously in more than 300 theatres across the US in mid-May...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Toronto Public Library presents “Speculative Fiction in Canada” discussion series
The Toronto Public Library is presenting a month-long discussion of speculative fiction in Canada, featuring more than two dozen authors participating in a score of discussions and...
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The Worlds of Jack Williamson on Williamson’s Centenary
Haffner Press is publishing a collection of the Grand Master's fiction and non-fiction, as well as essays about his impact, in honor of the centennial of his birth...
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Eisner Comic Award Nominees Announced
The nominees for this year's Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. Voting opens to the community soon, and the winners will be announced...
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Rhetorics of Fantasy tries to classify fantasy’s subgenres
Farah Mendlesohn's new scholarly work subdivides fantasy literature into four categories, based on...
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Top Box Office Grossers: First Week of April
There are five genre films in the top 25, all of them in the top 10. And three others fell off the list...
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Heroes creator sells alternate history trilogy
Tim Kring will be writing The Flag of Orpheus with established author Dale Peck for Crown, which paid $3 million...
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OSC’s Intergalactic Medicine Show publishes issue #8
The eighth issue of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show is now available, with content by Orson Scott Card, Matt Rotundo, Darrell Schweitzer...
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Reversals and Stupidity—a review of Battlestar Galactica’s “Six of One”
Characters change, yet continue to be true to themselves, while some are forced to be stupid by the writers... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Meg: how to turn an idea into a blockbuster into an unproduced flop
Why Meg didn't turn into a new version of Jaws...
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This Year’s Compton Crook Award Finalists
The Compton Crook Award, for new sf author who wrote the best sf novel of 2007, is given by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. The nominees are...
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Updates to Previously Published Articles (6-12 April 2008)
This is a list of previously published articles that were updated between 6 and 12 April 2008.
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NASA Science is NASA’s new web site
NASA's Science Mission Directorate is launching the NASA Science web site with lots of nifty information and features...
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The Return of the Sword celebrates heroic fantasy
Flashing Swords Press is publishing an anthology of heroic fantasy fiction featuring...
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Marjorie M. Liu’s Tiger Eye sells to Japan
Japanese language rights to Marjorie M. Liu's first Dirk & Steele novel, Tiger Eye, sold to Villagebooks via the Japan Uni Agency on behalf of the Spectrum Literary Agency.
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