Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill signing Revenge #1 at Forbidden Planet

Hollywood has-been Griffin Franks is suddenly the superhero The Revenger, but now someone wants to send him back to obscurity, in Revenge. Co-creators Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill will be signing the debut issue at London's Forbidden Planet on 1 March... Read more [...]

John Grant’s The Young Person’s Guide To Bullshit To Zest Books

Hugo-nominated author and editor John Grant's newest book will be The Young Person's Guide to Bullshit, a nonfiction volume because today's young adults shouldn't be left at the mercy of the mythomaniacs... Read more [...]

NASA-Sponsored ‘Disk Detective’ lets public search for new planetary nurseries

NASA's latest crowdsourcing project is to sift through data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission to find embryonic planetary systems... Read more [...]

Steve Rasnic Tem is back with the dark Blood Kin

Steve Rasnic Tem returns to Solaris this March with a dark novel of Southern Gothic, ghosts, witchcraft, snake-handling, and the Great Depression... Read more [...]

Quantum Shorts winners announced

The winners of the Centre for Quantum Technologies' Quantum Shorts 2013 writing contest have been announced. They include Brian Crawford, Antonia Jade, and Claire Cheong U-Er... Read more [...]

2013 BSFA Awards nominees announced

The shortlists for this year’s British Science Fiction Association’s Awards have been announced. Winners will be announced at the end of April… Read more [...]

Tor Books hiring a new publicist

Tor Books has a job opening for a book publicist... Read more [...]

Oscars to celebrate the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz

This year's award ceremony will mark the 75th anniversary of the iconic film. And days ago, Ruth Robinson Duccini died; she was one of the last two surviving actors who played Munchkins in the film... Read more [...]

Five thousand people sign up for London Worldcon

This year's World Science Fiction Convention is on pace to be the largest ever held outside the United States... Read more [...]

Ellen Datlow reading for Best Horror of the Year volume 7

Ellen Datlow is once again reading stories for her annual reprint anthology Best Horror of the Year... Read more [...]

BWAC’s spring show: Outer Limits

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition's spring show will be the sf-themed Outer Limits, and fans are invited to join in the opening festivities on April 26... Read more [...]

Japanese rights to Jeff Carlson’s The Frozen Sky sell to Tokyo Sogen

Jeff Carlson's agent sold Japanese rights to his novel The Frozen Sky, which was originally self-published... Read more [...]

Robot Dialogues at The New School on January 29

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Heather Knight, Wendell Wallach, and Peter Asaro will be the human interlocutors dialoging with artificial beings in The New School's Robot Dialogues program... Read more [...]

Feld Entertainment announces arena spectacular Marvel Universe Live

Feld Entertainment reveals captivating storyline and announces tour dates for larger-than-life arena spectacular Marvel Universe Live! Tickets on sale now for Marvel's first-ever live tour and must-see event of the summer... Read more [...]

RUSA’s 2014 Reading List winners revealed: Librarians’ top picks in genre fiction

The American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association has announced its selections for the 2014 Reading List in a variety of genres, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction... Read more [...]

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