Mark Chadbourn sells two trilogies to Pyr
British Fantasy Award-winner Mark Chadbourn sold trilogies Age of Misrule and The Swords of Albion to Pyr...
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Tag Archives: England
Eleven Fans Donate Babylon 5 Mask to Museum of the Moving Image
A group of 11 Babylon 5 fans, otherwise unconnected, were able to pool their resources to purchase and then donate a lifemask of Andreas Katsulas and a prop mask of G'Kar, his character...
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Composer Tristram Cary Dies
Composer Tristram Cary (1925-2008) worked on many episodes of Doctor Who, and was a founder of electronic music...
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Author Julian Rathbone Dies
British author Julian Rathbone (1935-2008) wrote more than 40 novels, including...
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Amazon.com buying audiobook retailer Audible.com
Amazon.com is buying Audible.com for about $300 million ($11.50 per share). Audible is...
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Director Claude Whatham Dies
British director Claude Whatham (1927-2008) worked on films, television, and stage plays...
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Actor Al Mancini Dies
Actor Al Mancini (1932-2007) may be best known for his role in The Dirty Dozen and his work on That Was the Week That Was...
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Sound Engineer Peter Handford Dies
British sound engineer Peter Handford (1919-2007) won an Oscar for Out of Africa, and worked on Tales of the Unexpected,...
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Actor Dick Wilson, “the Charmin man,” Dies
Dick Wilson (1916-2007) was best known as the grocer who squeezed the Charmin in commercials, but he was also a television actor with many...
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British actress Hilda Braid dies
Hilda Braid (1929-2007) was best known for her role in EastEnders, but she made a few genre appearances, including...
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Interview with Sarah Rees Brennan, author of The Demon’s Lexicon
Sarah Rees Brennan was writing fan fiction until she sold a fantasy trilogy to Simon & Schuster. Now she tells us who she is, what she's writing, and why...
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New author Sarah Rees Brennan sells fantasy trilogy
Sarah Rees Brennan sold her debut urban fantasy trilogy, which will start with The Demon's Lexicon, to Karen Wojtyla at Margaret K. McElderry Books...
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Actress Ruth Kettlewell Dies
Character actress Ruth Kettlewell (1913-2007) had a few genre appearances...
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Doug Wright Award winners and nominees
The winners (and nominees) of the 2007 Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning were recently named. They are...
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Producer and Director Peter Graham Scott Dies
British producer and director Peter Graham Scott (1923-2007) had a varied career working in many genres, including...
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