Books Received: August 2012
Books received for review during the month of August 2012. This page is updated throughout the month.
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Tag Archives: Science Fiction
Baltimore Science Fiction Society hosts roundtable talk by local female authors on Fantastic Heroines of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
BSFS's free panel discussion will feature Brenda Clough, Mindy Klasky, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeri Smith-Ready, moderated by Colleen Cahill of the Library of Congress, on October 27th...
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SF author Edward Willett’s Circle the Crops to celebrate city centennial
Former resident Edward Willett has written a science fiction-comedy play, Circle the Crops, which will be performed next summer to celebrate the centennial of the city of Weyburn, Saskatchewan...
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UCTV Prime YouTube series unveils treasures inside the world’s largest science fiction and fantasy collection
The University of California's YouTube channel is developing a video tour inside the Eaton Collection—the UC Riverside's massive collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror—with the first three episodes already available...
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Fifth Annual Shirley Jackson Award Winners
The winners of the fifth annual Shirley Jackson Awards, honoring the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic, are...
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Fred Lerner donates science fiction collection to Columbia University
Author and fan Dr. Fred Lerner is donating a large collection of sf publications to the Columbia University Libraries. Included in the gift are substantial runs of many magazines...
Read more [...] Destinies to feature blockbuster new movies for the next month
Destinies, the science fiction radio program broadcasting from SUNY Stony Brook, will feature a programs on this summer's blockbuster movie releases The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises...
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Solaris announces second novel from breakthrough author, Guy Haley
Guy Haley's second book for Solaris, The Crash, takes current economic woes to the stars, mixing them onto an alien planet...
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New Eric Brown SF title for Solaris announced for 2013
Eric Brown's new novel, The Serene Invasion, about a benign alien invasion, will be published by Solaris in May 2013...
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Gollancz buys three new novellas from Sarah Pinborough
Gollancz has purchased three linked fairy tale novellas from Sarah Pinborough, planning to publish them as standalone volumes...
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Abaddon announces second book in Weird Space series
Series creator Eric Brown is sequelizing Weird Space with Satan's Reach, due out in 2013...
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Author Ray Bradbury Dies
Writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) received all the lifetime achievement awards in our fields, and wrote the classics The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun, Something Wicked This Way Comes...
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Artist Leo Dillon Dies
Artist Leo Dillon (1933-2012) was half of the husband-and-wife artist team Leo & Diane Dillon, winners of Hugo, Caldecott, Balrog, Spectrum, and World Fantasy Awards...
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T.C. McCarthy wins Compton Crook Award
Germline by T.C. McCarthy (published by Orbit) is the winner of this year's Compton Crook Award...
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2011 Nebula Award Winners
The 2011 Nebula Award winners were announced tonight. They are...
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