Walking the Dinosaur: Building T. Rex for Jurassic Park

Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination is co-hosting an evening with special effects artist Michael Trcic as he discusses teh creation of the dinosaurs for the movie Jurassic Park... Read more [...]

WSFA Small Press Award 2013 Finalists

The WSFA Small Press Award is for short fiction published in magazines/books published by small press companies... Read more [...]

Unlikely Story’s sixth issue, The Journal of Unlikely Architecture, is now available

The first non-buggy issue of the online journal formerly known as the Journal of Unlikely Entomology is now available, with fiction by Alma Alexander, Daniel Ausema, Kelly Simmons, Kelly Lagor, Matthew Timmins, Rose Lemberg, and Mark Rigney... Read more [...]

Edward Willett sells sequel to Right to Know to Bundoran Press

Edward Willett is sequelizing his new space opera Right to Know with an as-yet-untitled book from the same publisher, Canadian small press Bundoran... Read more [...]

LoneStarCon 3 partners with Ustream to broadcast 2013 Hugo Award ceremony

This year's Hugo Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on Ustream and blogged live on CoverItLive, on 1 September... Read more [...]

Analog’s November 2013 Issue

The November issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact will contain fiction by Christopher L. Bennett, Ron Collins, Paul Di Filippo, Edward M. Lerner, Jack McDevitt, Michael Monson, Bud Sparhawk, Joseph Weber... Read more [...]

Asimov’s October/November 2013 Issue

The October/November 2013 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction will contain fiction by Charlie Jane Anders, Neal Asher, Ian Creasey, Jack Dann, Alan DeNiro, Paul Di Filippo, Sheila Finch, Gregory Frost, Ian McHugh, Meg Pontecorvo, Joel Richards, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Igor Teper... Read more [...]

NASA Explores New Uses for Historic Launch Structures

NASA is asking for bids to retire or dispose of three mobile launcher platforms that transported Space Shuttles and Saturn rockets from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch sites in Florida... Read more [...]

Science Fiction TV Dinner: The Walking Dead

Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination presents a discussion of The Walking Dead, death, taxes, and zombies... Read more [...]

Archaia announces An Aurora Grimeon Story: Will O’ The Wisp

Eerie fantasy tale comes from first-time graphic novelists Tom Hammock and Megan Hutchison... Read more [...]

Books Received: first half of August 2013

Books and DVDs received for review during the first half of August 2013… Read more [...]

Weightless Books adds Interzone and Black Static

British spec-fic magazines Interzone and Black Static are now available as electronic subscriptions in the US, via Weightless Books... Read more [...]

Sequart’s Transmetropolitan book now available

Sequart's newest book of comics analysis is Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan, edited by Chad Nevett... Read more [...]

Former rocket scientist Raymond Vogel’s new novel about colonizing Mars

Raymond Vogel's Matter of Resistance follows the tense times as the Martian colony struggles for independence from Earth... Read more [...]

I Can Transform You

Maurice Broaddus' I Can Transform You follows the mystery of a Mac Peterson's ex-wife's murder -- or was it suicide? -- in the post-apocalyptic world ruled by corp-nations... Read more [...]

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