Eric Brown sells sf novel to Solaris
Eric Brown sold alternative alien invasion novel Serene Invasion to Jonathan Oliver at Solaris Books...
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Tag Archives: China
One small press sf title on PW’s list of the ten best books of 2011
Maureen McHugh's After the Apocalypse is the only genre entry on Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Books of 2011...
Read more [...] Robert J. Sawyer’s near future may be a Wonder, or a terror, but either way, it’s probably coming
Robert J. Sawyer concludes his WWW trilogy with the same skill and thrills with which he started it. This is the type of science fiction we read to warn us of what's coming, not in a century, but tomorrow...
Read more [...] Jeff Hirsch sells YA post-apocalyptic debut, The Long Walk Home, to Scholastic
Debut novelist Jeff Hirsch's two-book deal with Scholastic will see post-apocalyptic YA novel The Long Walk Home published sometime in 2011...
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Fred Lerner’s The Story of Libraries has a new edition
Continuum Publishing has just issued the second edition of Fred Lerner's The Story of Libraries...
Read more [...] Del Rey reissuing first three Temeraires as a hardcover with a new story
Del Rey Books is republishing Naomi Novik's' first three Temeraire novels as a hardcover omnibus with an additional, original short story...
Read more [...] Author J.G. Ballard Dies
British author J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) turned his childhood experience in a Japanese prison camp into the novel Empire of the Sun, and was an influential member of the New Wave literary movement...
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Neil Gaiman sells three non-fiction books to William Morrow
Neil Gaiman sold three non-fiction books to Jennifer Brehl at William Morrow. The first, Monkey and Me: China and the Journey to the West...
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Character actor Kim Chan dies
Chinese-born US actor Kim Chan (aged 93 or 94) was on the large and small screen from 1957, but found fame in the 1980s and in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues...
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Chinese spacewalk, listen to the astronauts, and send your name into space
Three space news stories: China has launched its third manned mission, intending to walk in space; NASA has opened up the phone lines to listen in on the ISS; and NASA's Glory satellite...
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Crichton sells in China, and HarperCollins buys Chinese children’s books
HarperCollins and PRC publisher Jilin Publishing Group will be publishing four Michael Crichton novels in Chinese. And in a related announcment, HC will be publishing...
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Two new single-author newsletters
Irregular newsletters by Robert J. Sawyer and Tom Piccirilli both arrived Friday...
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Chinese probe on its way to the Moon
China launches its first lunar orbiting probe, Chang'e, to the Moon...
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Robert J. Sawyer wins China’s Galaxy Award for Most Popular Foreign Author
Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer won China's Galaxy Award, voted by Chinese readers, for Most Popular Foreign Author of the Year...
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Simon R. Green around the world
Agent Joshua Bilmes reports 19 foreign sales of Simon R. Green's novels, including...
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