Fan and publisher Frank Dietz dies

Franklyn M. Dietz, Jr., was one of the founder of New York City's The Lunarians, a convention chairman, and one of the early recorders of WorldCon events. He also published fanzines and typeset... Read more [...]

Shawn Speakman’s Unfettered helps pay medical bills, and launches non-profit

Following the success of the charity anthology Unfettered, Shawn Speakman plans to launch a non-profit organization to make the anthology an annual event to help others in need for unpaid medical bills... Read more [...]

Timequake Clambake to wrap up day of Kurt Vonnegut celebrations in Indianapolis

The Perfect Ending to VonnegutFest 2013. Don't miss your chance to say you attended the very first Timequake Clambake on 9 November in Indianapolis, Indiana... Read more [...]

Simon & Schuster launching dedicated sf/f imprint

Simon & Schuster's new sf imprint will be overseen by publisher Justin Chandra and executive editor Joe Monti... Read more [...]

Annual Bard Fiction Prize is Awarded to Bennett Sims

Bennett Sims' A Questionale Shape, a zombie novel/reumination on the nature of memory and loss, has won the $30,000 Bard Fiction Prize for 2014... Read more [...]

Next NYRSF reading is 11/5 with Rajan Khanna & Fran Wilde

The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings series, guest curated by Amy Goldschlager, will present Rajan Khanna and Fran Wilde on 5 November... Read more [...]

Midtown Comics opens comic book feature shop at Toys R Us Times Square

New York City's Midtown Comics is opening up a branch inside the 110,000-square-foot Toys R Us megastore in Times Square... Read more [...]

MIT’s Tech Review publishes original anthology inspired by today’s new technologies

MIT Technology Review's Twelve Tomorrow's features stories by Brian W. Aldiss, David Brin, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald, Allen M. Steele... Read more [...]

Pulp Studies: Call for Papers

The Popular Culture Association is seeking proposals and abstracts for papers on the role of pulp magazines... Read more [...]

David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy to be presented at prestigious open ceremony

The David Gemmell Awards will be given out in a ceremony co-located with, but not a part of, this year's World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, UK. The event will also include an auction... Read more [...]

Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell

Gareth L. Powell's primate pilot Ack-Ack Macaque is back... Read more [...]

Alan Lee caught up in The Desolation of Smaug

This year's World Fantasy Convention's Artist Guest of Honor Alan Lee's work on the second Hobbit movie is running over schedule, preventing him from attending the convention... Read more [...]

New anthology focuses on the human side of horror

No Monsters Allowed, edited by Alex Davis, focuses on the terror and evil that humankind can do to its own kind... Read more [...]

Nonstop Press’s Monkey’s Other Paw

Nonstop Press is using its Indiegogo campaign for The Monkey's Other Paw as a pre-ordering showcase for the horrific anthology that has authors writing new sequels to classic stories... Read more [...]

Artist Ian Schoenherr looking for paintings of Dune

Artist Ian Schoenherr is trying to track down the original art his father, artist John Schoenherr, created to illustrate Frank Herbert's Dune series... Read more [...]

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