2013 Nebula Nominees Announced
The final ballot for this year's Nebula Awards includes eight novels (instead of the usual five or six), and additional nominees in several other categories... Read more [...]
HWA announces 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award recipients
Stephen Jones and R.L. Stine are the recipients of the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Horror Writers Association... Read more [...]
2013 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot
The nominees for this year's Bram Stoker Awards, given by the Horror Writers Association, are... Read more [...]
Rush and BOOM! Studios think big with Clockwork Angels comic
Kevin J. Anderson and Neal Peart's Clockwork Angels, the novel based on the album by Rush, is now becoming a comic book, courtesy of Boom! Studios and artists Hugh Syme and Nick Robles... Read more [...]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announces The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is adding to its Best American series with The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. The series will be edited by John Joseph Adams, and the inaugural volume (covering 2014) will be guest edited by Joe Hill... Read more [...]
2014 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Announced
The judges for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award, for distinguished science fiction published in paperback format, are... Read more [...]
Paul G. Tremblay sells two to William Morrow
Paul G. Tremblay sold two novels, the first for summer 2015 publication to William Morrow in a six-figure deal... Read more [...]
Neil Gaiman performing The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains as it gets bookified
Neil Gaiman will be reading The Truth is a Cave in the Mountains accompanied by a string quartet and paintings. Harper Collins has commissioned even more paintings of the story, and will release it as something approaching a graphic novel in June... Read more [...]
Unlikely Story #8: The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography now available
The eighth issue of Unlikely Story focuses on Unlikely Cryptology, with stories by Barry King, Mari Ness, Mary Alexandra Agner, Ada Hoffman, and Gregory Norman Bossert... Read more [...]
Fantastic Fiction at KGB: March 19th with David D. Levine and Ellen Kushner
The March Fantastic Fiction at KGB Bar reading will feature Ellen Kushner and David D. Levine on 19 March, and free as always… Read more [...]
100 Free Drinks and 4 Tor Debut Authors on Monday, February 24th
Tor is hosting a party for four debut authors: James Cambias, David Edison, Brian Staveley, and Ramona Wheeler. The public event will be in New York City's Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on 24 February... Read more [...]
J. Michael Straczynski options Harlan Ellison’s “Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman”
After completing an acceptable script, J. Michael Straczynski was granted a film option for Harlan Ellison Hugo- and Nebula-winning "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman"... Read more [...]
Loncon 3 confirms Beijing and Kansas City as bidders for 2016 Worldcon
Two official bids have been received to host the 2016 World Science Fiction Convention: Beijing, China; and Kansas City, Missouri. Voting will take place at this summer's WorldCon in London... Read more [...]
Announcing World Science U
Brian Greene announces the formation of World Science U, an online platform for learning science, debuting with two courses on Einstein's Special Relativity... Read more [...]
Iain Banks publication in 2015 and tribute from Simon Pegg
A new volume of Iain Banks poetry, collected with and edited by Ken Macleod, will be published in 2015... Read more [...]