Tag Archives: Japan

Chip Kidd, Paul Levitz, and More: Upcoming at MoCCA

Chip Kidd will be talking about Bat-Manga! at New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, Paul Levitz will be teaching a master class in writing, and space is still available at MoCCA Fest... Read more [...]

ChiCon 7 Membership Rates Increase Oct 1st

Membership rates for Chicon 7, the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention, will increase on Saturday... Read more [...]

Psyren takes readers to an alternate dimension where you’ve got to fight to get back home, or die trying

Toshiaki Iwashiro's Psyren follows a teenager and his friends as they embark on a dangerous adventure to alter the future and save the world... Read more [...]

The Cage of Zeus combines gender politics and hard sf

A race of genetically modified humans battles genocide and extinction in The Cage of Zeus by Sayuri Ueda, new from Viz Media's Haikasoru imprint... Read more [...]

Japanese author Sakyo Komatsu dies

Japanese author Sakyo Komatsu (1931-2011) was best known for his 1973 novel Japan Sinks, brought to public awareness again following the earthquake/tsunami that struck his homeland earlier this year... Read more [...]

Japanese filmmaker Satoshi Kon dies

Japanese filmmaker and artist Satoshi Kon (1963-2010) started in manga and moved into film, using sf elements in his literary films... Read more [...]

JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for Campbell, Green, Harris, and Huff

JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Jack Campbell, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, and Tanya Huff, in Czech, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain... Read more [...]

Books Received: May 2010

Books received for review during the month of May 2010. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

How do you know it isn’t happening right now? Robert J. Sawyer’s WWW: Watch

Who says it won't be a sixteen-year-old girl who makes first contact with a nonhuman intelligence? Do you know what we'll do if she does? Once again, Robert J. Sawyer presents an engrossing novel... Read more [...]

JABberwocky reports foreign rights sales for Bilmes, Brett, Campbell, Castro, Hines, and Huff

JABberwocky Literary Agency's latest batch of foreign rights sales includes books by Peter V. Brett, Jack Campbell, Adam-Troy Castro, Jim C. Hines, and Tanya Huff in France, Japan, Poland, Russia, and Turkey... Read more [...]

Japanese author/translator/fan Takumi Shibano dies

Takumi Shibano (1926-2010) was one of the founders of Japanese fandom, an author, and a translator, who was twice a Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention... Read more [...]

Lucasfilm partners with Reed Exhibitions for Star Wars Celebration V

Lucasfilm has signed a partnership deal with Reed Exhibitions to commence with next year's Star Wars Celebration V, in August in Orlando, Florida... Read more [...]

Flash Light—FlashForward’s “Believe”

Back to basics: focusing on the people and how the Flashforward affects them turns in a much better episode... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Books Received: September 2009

Books received for review during the month of September 2009. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

JABberwocky reports foriegn rights sales for Brett, Buckell, Campbell, Harris, Huff, Kurtz & Harris, Sanderson, and Sprunk

JABberwocky Literary Agency keeps up its steady flow of foreign rights sales. This time, they're reporting sales for Peter V. Brett, Tobias Buckell, Jack Campbell, Tanya Huff, Katherine Kurtz & Deborah Turner Harris, Brandon Sanderson, and Jon Sprunk, in Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, and Russia... Read more [...]

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