Four rare, collectible books available via auction from NESFA
NESFA Press is auctioning off four books they published more than 30 years ago, including works by Brin, de Camp, McCaffrey, and Pratchett...
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Yearly Archives: 2008
Eisner Award Judges Named
The judges for this year's Eisner Awards, who will create the final ballot from which the winners will be voted, are...
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Michael Reaves being surgically treated for Parkinson’s
Author Michael Reaves, who is currently on the Nebula ballot for best script, is undergoing brain surgery related to his advanced Parkinson's disease...
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Applications due for Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop
A NASA-funded educational program will send a dozen writers to Wyoming for a week to learn astronomy...
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Christiana Ellis sells to Dragon Moon Press
Christiana Ellis sold Nina Kimberly: The Merciless to Dragon Moon Press. Ellis has a free podcast of the book available on her web site.
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Antipodean SF’s February-March 2008 Issue
The tenth anniversary issue of the electronic Australian sf magazine has twenty short stories...
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Clarkesworld Magazine’s March Issue
The newest issue of Clarkesworld features fiction by Stephen Dedman and Jay Lake...
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Robert J. Sawyer turns in first of three WWW books
Robert J. Sawyer has delivered Wake, first volume in his WWW trilogy, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace Science Fiction in New York and to Nicole Winstanley at Penguin Canada in Toronto.
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of February
New release Vantage Point pushed down last week's #1 and #2, and three other genre films dropped out of the top 25...
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Upcoming New York City Readings: Meet the Authors
This month offers opportunities to hear authors read in intimate settings—including Sarah Beth Durst, Felix Gilman, David Keck, and Michael Swanwick—and dine with them after...
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Theodore Judson sells satirical fantasy novel to Edge/Tesseract
Theodore Judson sold Hell Can Wait, a satirical fantasy novel that follows a Roman general stuck in Limbo because of a paperwork foul-up...
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Adam-Troy Castro delivers second Andrea Cort novel
Agent Joshua Bilmes reports that Adam-Troy Castro has turned in The Third Claw of God, his second Andrea Cort novel (and sequel to the just-published Emissaries from the Dead) to Diana Gill at Harper Eos.
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“Return to Luna” writing contest
Hadley Rille Books and the National Space Society are co-sponsoring a short story writing contest around the theme "Return to Luna"...
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World Fantasy Awards Judging Panel Names
The judges for the 2008 World Fantasy Awards (for works published in 2007) have been empanelled, and are receiving material for consideration for the awards...
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Author Janet Kagan Dies
Author Janet Kagan died of pulmonary disease. She won a Hugo in 1993, and was the author of the classic Star Trek novel Uhura's Song, Hellspark, and...
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