Odyssey Writing Workshop announces it 19th summer session

The Odyssey Writing Workshop will again be held at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, 9 June-18 July 2014, with writers-in-residence Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem, and guest lecturers Elizabeth Hand, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Alexander Jablokov, and Gordon Van Gelder... Read more [...]

2014 Golden Globe Nominees Announced

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has once again shown a dislike of speculative fiction. It's like they don't respect the box office take... Read more [...]

2014 SAG Award Nominees Announce

The Screen Actors Guild Awards did not completely snub sf/f/h productions, but gave them very few nominations… Read more [...]

Le Carré in a Kafka nightmare: this is ‘Europe in Autumn’

In a future, fractured Europe, a Polish chef is turned into a people-smuggler in Dave Hutchinson's thriller Europe in Autumn... Read more [...]

Books Received: second half of November 2013

Books received for review during the second half of November 2013… Read more [...]

Westerntainment publishes R.A. Jones’ The Steel Ring

In The Steel Ring, by R.A. Jones, mankind races toward World War II in the closing months of 1939, and a new generation of costumed and super-powered heroes arrives to stem the tide of rising chaos... Read more [...]

Destinies to focus on T.A. Barron, The Hobbit, and A.C. Crispin

Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will feature programs on T.A. Barron's Atlantis Rising, the new Hobbit movie, A.C. Crispin's Star Trek novel Yesterday's Son, and a year-end review of the comic book industry Read more [...]

Terminal Mind is back in print

David Walton's Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel Terminal Mind is finally back in print... Read more [...]

Signed and personalized Carousel Sun, by Sharon Lee, available for pre-order

Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore is the place to pre-order signed and personalized copies of Sharon Lee's forthcoming Carousel Sun... Read more [...]

20-year-old Lucasfilm Millennium Falcon cut-away art revealed by illustrator Brian Sauriol

Artist Brian Sauriol is revealing 20-year-old artwork from the iconic original Star Wars, and offering it for sale... Read more [...]

The Future – Powered by Fiction contest extends entry deadline

The Tomorrow Project's competition for young people to participate in science-based conversations and share their imaginative designs for the future has been extended to the end of the year... Read more [...]

Necro Publications Releases Newest Bedlam Press Imprint Title: Welcome to GreenGrass

S.A. Check's Welcome to GreenGrass explores what happens when a police officer from Earth is thrown into an alien city, trapped beneath an invisible dome, and forced to find a killer... Read more [...]

Snowbooks to publish two further David Barnett steampunk novels in UK

Snowbooks bought UK rights to David Barnett's second and third Gideon Smith steampunk novels, the first of which was published in September 2013... Read more [...]

Solaris buys Cannonbridge by Jonathan Barnes

Jonathan Barnes' Cannonbridge will use the Victorian era for something other than a steampunk novel, as a literary mystery chases through time to determine if history's most famous author ought to have existed at all... Read more [...]

Nightmare Magazine’s December 2013 Issue

The fifteenth issue of John Joseph Adams’ online horror ‘zine Nightmare includes fiction by Sam J. Miller, David J. Schow, Conrad Williams, and Connie Willis... Read more [...]

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