Category Archives: People
F. Alexander Brejcha, 1957-2019
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 [...]
Author Jay Lake Dies
Author Jay Lake (1964-2014) won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer, and touched many lives in a brief writing career... Read more [...]
Gaie Sebold steampunk sequel commissioned by Solaris
Gaie Sebold's Sparrow Falling will be a sequel to her Solaris-published steampunk novel Shanghai Sparrow... Read more [...]
David Pomerico to be new Executive Editor at Harper Voyager
Former 47North acquiring editor David Pomerico is the new Executive Editor for William Morrow's Harper Voyager... Read more [...]
Antimatter to publish Mike Allen’s first short story collection
Mike Allen's first short story collection, containing fourteen horror stories, should appear at the World Fantasy Convention... Read more [...]
Robert J. Sawyer options WWW trilogy to Fresh TV
Robert J. Sawyer has sold television rights to the Aurora Award-winning WWW trilogy, Wake, Watch, and Wonder, to Toronto's Fresh TV... Read more [...]
Gollancz acquire novelisation of upcoming British science-fiction film Robot Overlords
The novelisation, written by scriptwriter and co-creator Mark Stay, tells teh story of what happens when Earth is invaded by robots for unknown reasons... Read more [...]
The Seventh Miss Hatfield – remarkable debut from a seventeen year old writer
Seventeen-year-old debut author Anna Caltabiano's The Seventh Miss Hatfield features time-travel, nineteenth century New York, a mysterious portrait, and unrequited love... Read more [...]
Curtis Jobling sells middle-grade supernatural thriller series to Viking Children’s
Curtis Jobling Max Helsing: Monster Hunter will marry classic Creature Feature horror characters, cryptozoological mysteries, and gold old fashioned ghosts, ghouls, and goblins, creating a world of all things monstrous... Read more [...]
Gollancz and Tachyon acquire Hannu Rajaniemi story collection
Tachyon will publish Hannu Rajaniemi's first short story collection as a limited-edition hardcover in 2015, and then Gollancz will release it more widely in trade paperback the following year... Read more [...]
Open Road Media to Publish Uncovered Stories from Award-Winning Fiction Author Octavia E. Butler
Two new stories discovered years after death of groundbreaking author; Walter Mosley to write introduction... Read more [...]
Debut author KM McKinley brings new fantasy to Solaris in 2015
The Iron Ship is set in a world at the beginning of the age of industry, but where the balance between science and magic is fraught with danger and difficulty... Read more [...]
HarperCollins to re-release Richard Kadrey’s Metrophage in a signed, limited edition
Richard Kadrey's early cyberpunk novel Metrophage, long available electronically, returns to print as a signed, collectible hardcover edition this November... Read more [...]