Monthly Archives: December 2009

Author Harry C. Crosby, aka Christopher Anvil, dies

Harry C. Crosby Jr. (1925-2009), better known as Christopher Anvil, wrote more than 100 stories, many in his "Federation of Humanity" or "Colonization Series"... Read more [...]

Jenny Rappaport is closing her eponymous literary agency

Another victim of the poor economy, Jenny Rappaport announces the closing of The Rappaport Agency at the end of the year... Read more [...]

Lucasfilm partners with Reed Exhibitions for Star Wars Celebration V

Lucasfilm has signed a partnership deal with Reed Exhibitions to commence with next year's Star Wars Celebration V, in August in Orlando, Florida... Read more [...]

Small Beer Press sale/fundraiser for children’s hospital

Gavin Grant and Kelly Link's Small Beer Press is having its end-of-the-decade sale, and turning it into a fundraiser for the Franciscan Children's Hospital, at which their daughter Ursula is a long-term patient... Read more [...]

Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine, to be resurrected in 2010

Working with IDW Publishing, the people behind the current Famous Monsters of Filmland web site will relaunch the magazine which originally debuted in 1958... Read more [...]

Win Lost Symbol books, cook books, and Quirk-y mash-ups

Book marketer FSB Associates is giving away three days worth of prize packs, including two books related to Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, chef Mary Ann Esposito's Italian cookbook, and three sets of Sense & Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies... Read more [...]

Tor.com becomes a center for the Great Old Ones

Tor.com offers an antidote to sparkly vampires and cheerful Christmas this month, by focusing on all things Lovecraft... Read more [...]

Blind Justice—Stargate Universe’s “Justice”

What to do? What story to tell? I know, we'll fall back on that old sf trope, the courtroom drama. Characters who forget to use the technology they have are not often that admirable... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Will Shetterly self-publishes a novel beloved by editors, but not publishers

Will Shetterly has decided to "follow the Doctorow plan" for his newest novel, Midnight Girl, offering it for free and in a variety of formats... Read more [...]

Chris Dolley joins Book View Cafe

Chris Dolley is the newest member of the BookViewCafé author collective, and his first offering is the serial Resonance... Read more [...]

Branson and Rutan unveil SpaceShipTwo

Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan are unveiling SpaceShipTwo, the first commercial spaceship that will take tourists into space... Read more [...]

Exit, Guns Blazing—FlashForward’s “A561984”

Hints of a bigger reason behind many small annoyances, hope that the series can be retooled sufficiently to save it, and a longer-than-expected hiatus mean this episode will have to stand much taller... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]