Actress Zelda Rubinstein Dies
Actress Zelda Rubinstein (1933-2010) came to acting later in life, but will be remembered as the clairvoyant in the Poltergeist films and the organist in Sixteen Candles...
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Launch party for Fantagraphics’ Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s
Fantagraphics Books is publishing NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s, and celebrating the publication with a party at their store in Seattle, Washington, on 30 January...
Read more [...] Albedo One’s International Aeon Award 2010 Contest
Irish sf magazine Albedo One's International Aeon Award writing contest begins once again with the new year...
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Nick Tosches sells urban vampire novel to Little, Brown
Nick Tosches sold a new novel about vampires who move in the bars and streets and subterranean places of New York City's night, to Michael Pietsch at Little, Brown. Expected publication is Autumn 2012.
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JABberwocky reports foriegn rights sales for Brett, Green, Huff, and Sanderson
JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Peter V. Brett, Simon R. Green, Tanya Huff, and Brandon Sanderson, in Brazil, Czech, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the UK...
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Stefan Petrucha sells 18th century vampire Indiana Jones novel to Grand Central
Stefan Petrucha sold Blood Prophecy to Alex Logan at Grand Central Publishing, via agent Joe Veltre of The Veltre Company. The books is "set during Napoleon's late-18th-century invasion of Egypt, featuring a 'vampire Indiana Jones' who searches for ancient clues in an effort to become human again."
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T—Chuck’s “Chuck vs. First Class”
Chuck finally goes out on his own, and guess what? He's competent. Might the CIA actually want him to succeed? And what's with the new girl... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Elizabeth Moon’s Paksenarrion coming to Brilliance Audio
Agent Joshua Bilmes reports selling audio rights to Elizabeth Moon's Oath of Fealty, and two additional new Paksenarrion novels, to Brilliance. Del Rey will publish Oath of Fealty in hardcover in March.
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Jedediah Berry’s Manual of Detection wins Crawford Award
Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection wins the William L. Crawford Award for best first fantasy novel...
Read more [...] Kathryn Ptacek to receive HWA’s Silver Hammer Award
Kathryn Ptacek receives the HWA's award for service to the organization...
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Everything is Connected—Caprica’s Pilot
Frankenstein and religion combine to create an intriguing pilot. We'll be watching to see if musings on what makes us human and how we believe can keep an audience... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Gene Roddenberry’s lost Questor Tapes series gets new life
Roddenberry Productions and Imagine Entertainment are working to breathe new life into Gene Roddenberry's 1970s unproduced television series The Questor Tapes...
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Actress Jean Simmons Dies
British-born actress Jean Simmons (1929-2010) received an OBE, one Emmy, and two Golden Globes. She was nominated for many other major awards, and appeared in many high-profile classics...
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2009 BSFA Award Shortlists Announced
The shortlists for this year's British Science Fiction Association Awards are now available, and voting is open until late March. The nominees are...
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Actor Pernell Roberts Dies
Actor Pernell Roberts (1928-2010) was Ben Cartwright's eldest son on Bonanza, and then the title character on Trapper John MD...
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