Northern Illinois University Libraries acquires Fred Saberhagen’s papers

Fred Saberhagen's widow has donated his papers to the Northern Illinois University Libraries, where curator Lynne M. Thomas says they will be the 'crown jewel' of the sf collection... Read more [...]

Actor Harry Morgan Dies

Actor Harry Morgan (1915-2011) was Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H, Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet, and also appeared in High Noon with Gary Cooper... Read more [...]

Tesseracts Sixteen now open for submissions

Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound will be edited by Mark Leslie, and is now open for submissions from Canadian writers... Read more [...]

Famous Monsters reveals two #260 covers, plus contents

Famous Monsters of Filmland celebrates 260 issues with two competing covers, and content talking abut Christopher Lee, John Carter of Mars, and more... Read more [...]

Imaginarium 2012 seeking “the best fiction and poetry” of 2011

Editors Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas are reading for a Canadian year's best anthology, which will be published by ChiZine and Tightrope... Read more [...]

Antipodean SF’s December 2011 Issue

Antipodean SF has posted its December 2011 issue. The online 'zine focuses on Australian short-short sf... Read more [...]

Apex Magazine’s December 2011 issue

Apex Magazine's December 2011 issue includes fiction by Christopher Barzak, Sarah Monette, Michael Pevzner... Read more [...]

Realms of Fantasy closure update

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Orbit hires Tom Bouman

Orbit Books US has hired Tom Bouman as an editor, acquiring science fiction and fantasy... Read more [...]

Artist Darrell K. Sweet Dies

Artist Darrel K. Sweet (1934-2011) provided the covers for The Wheel of Time and Xanth novels... Read more [...]

Two pulp publishers announce writers and schedule for revolutionary unique imprint

Pro Se Productions and Altus Press are teaming up to create the Pulp Obscura imprint, and announce their first six new pulp titles, coming in 2012... Read more [...]

Bruce McAllister presents 75 authors talking about symbolism in their writing

As a teenaged high school student, Bruce McAllister undertook a survey of authors' views of their own use of symbolism. Now, many years later, he's revealing the results... Read more [...]

Three-book world English language rights deal with Tor for UK fantasy novelist David Barnett

British author and journalist David Barnett has sold three books in a new steampunk series, starting with Hero of the Empire, to Claire Eddy at Tor Books... Read more [...]

Cheeky Frawg’s Unique and Extremely Cheeky New Website

Jeff VanderMeer's announces Cheeky Frawg's new website, which is not only a retailer, but a destination... Read more [...]

NASA’s Voyager hits new region at solar system edge

As the 34-year-old Voyager spacecraft continue to flee the solar system, they're discovering the characteristics of space between the stars... Read more [...]

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