Category Archives: News
Octavia Butler’s self-motivational messages
2013 Sidewise Award Nominees
The nominees for this year's Sidewise Awards, for the best alternate history fiction, are... Read more [...]
George R.R. Martin offers to kill fans for donations to wolf sanctuary
Author George R.R. Martin is offering many gifts -- including the chance for a Tuckerization guaranteed to kill the character in an upcoming Song of Ice and Fire novel -- for donations to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary... Read more [...]
Phoenix Pick’s Free Ebook for June: Joan Slonczewski’s Brain Plague
Pick up a free copy of Joan Slonczewski's Brain Plague, for the month of June only, from Arc Manor Publishing... Read more [...]
Daily Science Fiction’s June 2014 line-up
June's offerings from Daily Science Fiction will include stories by Cat Rambo, Robert Reed, Alex Shvartsman, Fran Wilde... Read more [...]
Hacked By GeNErAL
New British independent press Unsung Stories will be a home for slightly off-kilter stories, those that might fall outside more traditional territories... Read more [...]
Loncon 3 launches Hugo Awards voter packet
The Hugo Awards voter packet -- containing excerpts from and, in most cases, the entire works nominated for this year's Hugo Awards -- is now available to members... Read more [...]
Prometheus Award Finalists Announced
The Libertarian Futurist Society announces the nominees for this year's Prometheus Awards... Read more [...]
Nightmare Magazine’s June 2014 Issue
The twenty-first issue of John Joseph Adams’ online horror ‘zine Nightmare includes fiction by Seanan McGuire, Lukasz Orbitowski, Michael Cisco, H.L. Nelson... Read more [...]
Learn Dothraki, fictional language from Game of Thrones, with Living Languatge and HBO Global Licensing
Beginner course features lessons from Dothraki language creator David J. Peterson... Read more [...]
NESFA Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story Contest
The New England Science Fiction Association is sponsoring a writing contest for new writers, with winners to be announced at next year's Boskone... Read more [...]
Boom! Studios announces new line of deluxe edition trade paperbacks, kicking off with ‘The Savage Brothers’
When the living want their undead loved ones put out of their misery, the Savage Brothers are the only two guys for the job. But their latest job takes them on a strange trip, involving virgin strippers, heads in jars, and the secret of the zombie apocalypse... Read more [...]
Boo Books releases newest title, After the Fall
Boo Books' third title, After the Fall, explores what might happen to the world after the collapse of technology... Read more [...]
New Zealand Writer Sean Monaghan Wins Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for 2014
Contest seeks stories with positive spin on space exploration and settlement... Read more [...]