Tag Archives: New York

Superman’s debut sells for ten million times cover price

A Very Fine copy of Superman's debut, in Action Comics #1, sold for a record-shattering $1 million... Read more [...]

Phillip Klass, aka sf author William Tenn, dies

Phillip Klass (1920-2010) who wrote sf as William Tenn, was SFWA's Author Emeritus in 1999 and a WorldCon Guest of Honor in 2004... Read more [...]

Amazon stops selling Macmillan’s books in argument over ebook pricing

Amazon.com has removed the buy buttons from all Macmillan books, and also removed all Macmillan titles from Kindle sales, in response to the publisher's proposed "agency model" for ebooks... Read more [...]

Eye of the Beholder—Fringe’s “Johari Window”

Foolish characters still lead us to a very good story very well told... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Top Shelf Comix sells minority stake in itself

Co-publishers Chris Staros and Brett Warnock have sold a one-third interest in the graphic novel publishing company Top Shelf to new media entrepreneur John S. Johnson and film producer Anthony Bregman... Read more [...]

Neil Gaiman to narrate Peter and the Wolf in free NYC concert

Manhattan's World Financial Center will present a free concert this Saturday. The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra will be performing Peter and the Wolf, with narration by Neil Gaiman... Read more [...]

Ami Greko leaving Macmillan/Tor for tech firm AdaptativeBlue

Macmillan/Tor's Digital Marketing Manager Ami Greko is leaving the company for tech firm AdaptativeBlue, and its Glue... Read more [...]

Lovecraft Unbound to be featured at The Montauk Club

Ellen Datlow's Lovecraft Unbound will be the basis of a night of readings at Brooklyn's historic Montauk Club, featuring contributors to the anthology... Read more [...]

Actor Val Avery Dies

Actor Val Avery (1924-2009) made a career out of playing the heavy, but also had some odd roles... Read more [...]

NYRSF Readings’ Feature Tag Team of Delia Sherman & Ellen Kushner

Celebrating the holiday season with a couple of fantasy readings, and celebrating twenty years of readings with historical reminiscences... Read more [...]

Win Bill Willingham’s new Fables novel, Peter & Max, or the whole series

Publisher Vertigo Comics and Library Journal are giving away prize packs including Bill Willingham's newest Fables novel, and complete sets of all of them... Read more [...]

Book launch/reading for Lovecraft Unbound on 27 October

The NYRSF Reading Series is hosting a book launch/reading for Ellen Datlow's newest anthology, Lovecraft Unbound, and at the same time opening the brand new SoHo Gallery for Digital Art... Read more [...]

Albacon ’09: sometimes smaller is better

Albacon was another in a string of successful smaller conventions in New York's capital city. The weekend featured great conversations and wonderful connections... Read more [...]

Brooklyn Indie Market’s second Steampunk Day coming

Brooklyn Indie Market will focus its exhibits, fashion show, and more on Steampunk on 24 October... Read more [...]

Character actor Jack Manning dies

Character actor Jack Manning (1916-2009) started in radio serials, including The Green Hornet and The Shadow, before moving to the stage and then film and television... Read more [...]

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