Send your name to Bennu aboard OSIRIS-REx
NASA's latest offer to send your name into space will travel with OSIRIS-REx on a mission to collect and return material from asteroid Bennu... Read more [...]
Loki goes from mischief to metal in new original series from Boom! Studios
Writer Eric Esquivel and artist Jerry Gaylord reimagine the Norse trickster god in a rock and roll band cruising the underground goth clubs of Los Angeles in Loki: Ragnarok And Roll... Read more [...]
Tor acquires stunning science fiction from Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fantasy author Adrian Tchaikovsky has sold a science fiction epic to Tor UK. Portia's Children tells the story of a desperate quest to preserve the last remnants of humanity... Read more [...]
Simon451: new science fiction imprint at Simon & Schuster
Simon451 will be the giant's speculative fiction imprint. Debuting in October 2014, they'll be publishing books in both print and electronic format, aiming to develop series and publish reprints. Their first books will be a series by Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin, and a dystopian novel by Ethan Reid. They are open to submissions, and will announce a student writing contest next month... Read more [...]
Nina George sells Das Lavendelzimmer as The Little Paris Bookshop to Crown
Nina George's German-language original Das Lavendelzimmer comes to North America as The Little Paris Bookshop, from Crown... Read more [...]
Analog and Asimov’s raise pay rates
A scant 14 months after their first increase in a long time, Analog and Asimov's are once again raising the amounts they pay writers, effective immediately... Read more [...]
Apex publishes J.M. McDermott’s Maze
Maze looks at what would happen if you didn’t make it to the castle in the center of the labyrinth, but instead stayed forever among the stone walls, finding others lost in the twists and turns while building a new life... Read more [...]
Geoffrey A. Landis wins Robert A. Heinlein Award
The Robert A. Heinlein Award recognizes authors of outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space... Read more [...]
Author Neal Barrett, Jr., Dies
Neal Barrett, Jr. (1929-2014) was SFWA's Author Emeritus in 2010, capping a long and storied career... Read more [...]
F&SF’s March/April 2014 Issue
The March/April 2014 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will feature fiction by D.M. Armstrong, Oliver Buckram, Rob Chilson, Albert E. Cowdrey, Jon DeCles, Gordon Eklund, Ron Goulart, Michael Libling, Pat MacEwen, Daniel Marcus, Sarah Pinsker, Leo Vladimirsky, and Ted White... Read more [...]
Joanne M. Harris’s ‘The Gospel of Loki’, the first adult fantasy novel from the author of ‘Chocolat’
The Gospel of Loki retells the story of the Old Norse trickster god as the elusive, handsome, and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies... Read more [...]
Vampress Luxura celebrates 20th anniversary with a new Kickstarter
Kirk Lindo's vampress Luxura, from the Vamperotica comic series, is back with more books... Read more [...]
Samurais and the supernatural collide in Archaia’s ‘Okko Volume 4: The Cycle of Fire’
When two of Pajan’s great clans covertly agree to a marriage between their heirs to form a powerful alliance, Okko the ronin and his group of demon hunters are recruited to insure the security of the ceremony in the long-awaited fourth volume of the series that blends the fantasy and samurai genres... Read more [...]
2014 Golden Globe Award Winners
Once again, the HFPA all but ignored speculative fiction in its annual awards, but we're not really surprised... Read more [...]
Analog’s April 2014 Issue
The April issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will contain fiction by Eric Baylis, Jon Hakes, Jordan Jeffers, Karl Schroeder, Ian Randal Strock, Lavie Tidhar, Diane Turnshek, Don Webb... Read more [...]