Author Steven Utley Dies
Author Steven Utley (1948-2013) was known for his short fiction, and for being mostly unknown... Read more [...]
Author Archives: Ian Randal Strock
We’re still here! And we’ll be in Boston
Sorry for the outage. Come see us at Arisia this weekend in Boston... Read more [...]
2013 BAFTA Film Award Nominees
This year's British Academy Film Awards nominees have been announced, including an average leavening of genre pictures... Read more [...]
2012 Academy Award Nominees Announced
The number of genre films earning Academy Award nominations, and the number of those nominations, seem fairly constant... Read more [...]
2013 People’s Choice Award Winners
The winners of the 2013 People's Choice Awards have been announced. SF/F/H made a good showing, as usual... Read more [...]
2012 Razzie Award Nominees Announced
The Razzie Awards, honoring the worst in film, have announced this year’s nominees. They include… Read more [...]
Actor Ned Wertimer Dies
Character actor Ned Wertimer was best known for his recurring role on The Jeffersons, but also appeared in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End... Read more [...]
F&SF’s March/April 2013 Issue
The March/April 2013 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will feature fiction by Chet Arthur, Elizabeth Bourne & Mark Bourne, Albert E. Cowdrey, Aaron Hughes, Naomi Kritzer, Sean F. Lynch, Sean McMullen, Michael Reaves, Deborah J. Ross, Steven Utley... Read more [...]
Top Box Office Grossers – last week in 2012
No new movies open during the last/first week of the year, so there isn't much movement on the charts this week. Hobbits continue to rule... Read more [...]
Waylines Magazine debuts with three stories and three films
The first issue of Waylines Magazine has fiction by Beth Cato, Grayson Bray Morris, and Jeremy Sim, and films by Francesco Calabrese, Christopher Kezelos, and Kevin Margo... Read more [...]
Once again, it’s a spec-fic world at the US box offices
The top sixteen movies, in terms of box office take in 2012, were science fiction, fantasy, or horror… Read more [...]
Nightmare Magazine’s January 2013 Issue
The fourth issue of John Joseph Adams’ online horror ‘zine Nightmare includes fiction by John Langan, Lucius Shepard, Lisa Tuttle, and Matt Williamson... Read more [...]
Destinies to focus on last year’s films, Marc Tyler Nobleman, and the space shuttle
Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will feature programs on the best and worst movies of 2012, Marc Tyler Nobleman (author of Bill the Boy Wonder), and a tribute to the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia... Read more [...]
Books Received: Second Half of December 2012
[[[Throne of the Crescent Moon]]] by Saladin Ahmed. (Book One of The Crescent Moon Kingdoms), DAW, $7.99, 368pp, pb, 9780756407780. Fantasy.
From Saladin Ahmed, finalist for the Nebula and Capbell Awards, comes one of the year's most acclaimed debuts: Throne of the Crescent Moon, a fantasy adventure with all the magic of The Arabian Nights.
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif Read more [...]
Broken Crown Games’s launch of ‘Science Behind the Sci-Fi’ panel
Broken Crown Games is putting toge Read more [...]