New World rights Deal for Urban Fantasy Writer Suzanne McLeod
Suzanne McLeod has sold two new volumes in her Spellcrackers series to Gollancz...
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Tag Archives: London
Books Received: July 2012
Books received for review during the month of July 2012. This page is updated throughout the month.
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Books Received: June 2012
Books received for review during the month of June 2012. This page is updated throughout the month.
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Bloomsbury acquires urban fantasy series by Oxford undergraduate Samantha Shannon
Oxford student Samantha Shannon sold the first three books in a planned seven-volume fantasy epic to Bloomsbury. The Bone Season follows a clairvoyant trapped in a future London's criminal underworld...
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The Testament of Jessie Lamb wins Clarke Award
Jane Rogers won this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb...
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Sam Humphries’ Higher Earth moves the battle from other planets to other Earths
BOOM! Studios is publishing Sam Humphries' High Eearth, a sci-fi revenge story set in an empire covering a hundred Earths in alternate time-lines...
Read more [...] London Officially Confirmed as Sole 2014 Worldcon Site Selection Bidder
London in 2014, a bid for the 72nd World Science Fiction convention—in London, UK, from Thursday 14 August to Monday 18 August 2014—looks to be the only bidder...
Read more [...] Chicon 7 Announces London as Sole 2014 Site Selection Bidder
London, England, is the only bidder for the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention...
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Heman Chong’s installation turns London gallery into used sf bookstore
Singaporean conceptual artist Heman Chong's LEM1 has turned Rossi & Rossi's London art gallery into a functioning second-hand sf bookshop...
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Michael Moorcock’s new release: London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction
PM Press' London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction gathers a broad collection of sf icon Michael Moorcock's published and unpublished nonfiction...
Read more [...] Author Russell Hoban Dies
American-born British author Russell Hoban (1925-2011) wrote The Mouse and His Child, award-winner Riddley Walker, and many more...
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Solaris acquire Gaie Sebold fantasy sequel
Gaie Sebold sold a sequel to her forthcoming Babylon Steel to Solaris...
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Agent of Inquiry—Madeleine E. Robins’ The Sleeping Partner
This third alternate-history Regency Sarah Tolerance novel in the series hits on all cylinders, returning the reader to a delightful world of scandal, intrigue, and mystery...
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2012 TAFF Fund balloting now open, to send a Norht American fan to Europe
The 2012 TransAtlantic Fan Fund will send a North American fan to Olympus, the 2012 Eastercon, in London next April. Nominees are...
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1965 WorldCon now online, with LOTS of photos
Rob Hansen's fandom site has now posted an incredibly in-depth write up of the 1965 World Science Fiction Convention, accompanied by lots of wonderful photos...
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