The Random House Publishing Group Announces New Digital-only Imprints

Random House is developing three new electronic-only imprints to bolster their already-extant romance line: one for mystery, one for New Adult, and HYDRA, focusing on sci-fi and fantasy... Read more [...]

Analog and Asimov’s raise payment rates

Effective immediately, Analog and Asimov's sf magazines are increasing their word rates for fiction... Read more [...]

Boom! Studios relaunches Hellraiser with new ongoing “The Dark Watch”

Boom! Studios will continue Clive Barker's Hellraiser with a new ongoing monthly series, The Dark Watch, launching in February... Read more [...]

Trent Zelazny and Warren Lapine raising funds and reading stories for Shadows and Reflections: a Roger Zelazny Tribute Anthology

The planned anthology will allow lesser known writers who were influenced by Roger Zelazny to participate, writing in Zelazny's universes... Read more [...]

Space Stars: Generations — Lockhart, Shatner, Wheaton videos celebrate NASA spinoff benefits to life on Earth

Former television space actors June Lockhart, William Shatner, and Wil Wheaton have recorded public service announcements highlighting terrestrial technology spinoffs from NASA's programs... Read more [...]

Elfhunter by C.S. Marks Ebook Release

Parthian Press is releasing the electronic version of C.S. Marks' Elfhunter... Read more [...]

Nir Yaniv’s short story collection released

Israeli sf author Nir Yaniv's first English-language collection, The Love Machine & Other Contraptions, is now available in a variety of formats from Infinity Plus Books. With an introduction by Lavie Tidhar... Read more [...]

Lavie Tidhar’s graphic novella, Adolpf Hitler’s I Dream of Ants, released

Lavie Tidhar's oddball graphic novel collaboration with artist Neil Struthers is now available from Murky Depths Publishing... Read more [...]

Open Road Media celebrates the 25th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first publication of Dawn by Octavia E. Butler, Open Road Media has a discussion of her work and influence, and a mini-documentary featuring author N.K. Jemisin... Read more [...]

New (and used) horror book store opens in Colchester, Connecticut

Books and Boos will have an author reading at its grand opening on December 8th in Colchester, Connecticut... Read more [...]

Bin Laden rises from the dead, leading an army of zombie terrorists

This December, Bin Laden rises from the dead, leading an army of zombie terrorists in an axis of the evil dead, in the direct-to-video Osombie (which was released in the UK in May)... Read more [...]

Daily Science Fiction’s December 2012 line-up

December's offerings from Daily Science Fiction will include stories by Alex Shvartsman and Lavie Tidhar... Read more [...]

Sometimes you have to travel to the Moon to grow up

Allen Steele's YA sf novel Apollo's Outcasts is a great updating of Heinlein's juveniles to modern sensibilities and modern science, with excellent world-building and gripping story-telling... Read more [...]

Actor Larry Hagman Dies

Actor Larry Hagman (1931-2012) was J.R. Ewing on Dallas, and Major Tony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie... Read more [...]

Top Box Office Grossers – Third Week in November 2012

The newest Twilight movie opened. Are you surprised it's at the top of the charts (taking in more money than all the other movies combined)?... Read more [...]

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