Chicon 7 Announces Spectacular Opening Under the Stars at the Adler Planetarium

Chicon 7, this year's World Science Fiction Convention, will be taking over the Adler Planetarium for an opening reception for convention members in the evening of August 30th... Read more [...]

Bob R Bogle’s critical biography Frank Herbert: The Works now available

Biologist Bob R. Bogle has written a critical biography called Frank Herbert: The Works, discussing the evolution of Herbert's ideas... Read more [...]

Analog’s July/August 2012 Issue

The July/August 2012 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will feature fiction by Ben Bova, Sarah K. Castle, Rob Chilson, Carl Frederick, Howard V. Hendrix, Richard A. Lovett & William Gleason, Gray Rinehart, Catherine Shaffer, H.G. Stratmann... Read more [...]

Asimov’s July 2012 Issue

The July 2012 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction will feature fiction by Michael Blumlein, Benjamin Crowell, Megan Lindholm, Robert Reed, Felicity Shoulders, Allen M. Steele, Steven Utley... Read more [...]

Bloomsbury acquires urban fantasy series by Oxford undergraduate Samantha Shannon

Oxford student Samantha Shannon sold the first three books in a planned seven-volume fantasy epic to Bloomsbury. The Bone Season follows a clairvoyant trapped in a future London's criminal underworld... Read more [...]

Second Eric Brown weird space novel sells to Abaddon

Eric Brown sold Satan's Reach, follow-on to his soon-to-be-published The Devil's Nebula, to Jonathan Oliver at Abaddon Books... Read more [...]

Actor George Murdock Dies

Actor George Murdock (1930-2012) both needed and commanded starships in the Star Trek universe, lived on one in Battlestar Galactica, and investigated cops on Barney Miller... Read more [...]

Natalie C Parker sells debut dark fantasy novel to Harper Childrens

Natalie C Parker's debut novel, Beware the Wild, was pitched as Twin Peaks meets The Village. HarperCollins Childrens Books will publish it in Winter 2014... Read more [...]

Tor Books looking to hire a Senior Publicist

Tor Books is looking to hire a Senior Publicist with 4-5 years of book publicity experience and a knowledge of gaming media and epic fantasy... Read more [...]

Artist and author Maurice Sendak dies

Artist and author Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) created Where the Wild Things Are and many other children's classics... Read more [...]

2012 British Fantasy Award Nominees

The British Fantasy Society announced the nominees for the British Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced at the end of September. The nominees are... Read more [...]

Two classic Michael Moorcock novels back in print

Fantastic Books has just republished The Shores of Death and The Wrecks of Time, continuing its program of bringing the classics of science fiction back into print... Read more [...]

Vote in the Heavy Metal vision of Pestilence Art contest; win artwork

Heavy Metal's 35th Anniversary Contest promotes their new release of Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Book One: HellDiver with a contest asking readers to vote on their favorite art work... Read more [...]

Pocket Star relaunched as dedicated eBook imprint

Simon & Schuster is re-lauching its Pocket Star imprint as an eBook-only imprint, on the assumption that eBooks are the replacement format for mass market paperbacks... Read more [...]

Two New York City Book Launch Parties: Tonight and Tomorrow

Alethea Kontis launches her debut YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted tonight, at an open party. Tomorrow, it's Amy Plum's launch of Until I Die... Read more [...]

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