Tag Archives: US

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... Read more [...]

The British The Children of Hurin audiobook now available in the US

Rather than finding a US audio book publisher, the British edition is simply being imported, less than two months after it first appeared... Read more [...]

Bloomsbury to publish paperback Deathly Hallows in July

Bloomsbury has announced it will release the British paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on 5 July 2008. It will be priced... Read more [...]

Pyr gets new McDonald collection; reprints from Abercrombie and Lloyd

Pyr will publish Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days, a collection of stories set in the world of River of Gods, and reprint... Read more [...]

Anticipation announces child, family membership rates

The 2009 World Science Fiction Convention is accepting registrations now, and has announced rates for children, as well as a special "family" package... Read more [...]

Bloomsbury senior management

Bloomsbury has announced that Richard Charkin is now managing director of Bloomsbury UK and US. CEO Nigel Newton will focus on international operations and the reference line A&C Black. Read more [...]

The Golden Compass movie is really driving sales of the book

The Golden Compass the book was published a decade ago, but it's now on USA Today's best seller lists... Read more [...]

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... Read more [...]

Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires sell in UK

Rachel Caine sold her first three Morganville Vampires novels to Allison & Busby in the UK via agent Lucienne Diver... Read more [...]

SFScope Going on the Road

It isn't going to be a public trip, but we're hoping you won't notice any difference for the week... Read more [...]

Partners—a review of Bionic Woman’s “Trust Issues”

Things aren't improving with the Bionic Woman, and we get the feeling the producers don't seem to care... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Tunnels hype and hysteria seems to be building

Tunnels, the children's fantasy novel Bloomsbury and Chicken House are hyping as "the book to fill the Harry Potter void," has been sold to the movies... Read more [...]

Random House to Publish 4 Iron Man Books

Random House will publish the novelization of and a tie-in to the Iron Man movie next Spring, as well as two original... Read more [...]

World Fantasy Convention weekend

Editor Ian Randal Strock is at the World Fantasy Convention, so news updates... Read more [...]

Professional Conference “Inside the Otaku Generation” to be held at NYAF

ICv2 is hosting a professional conference, "Inside the Otaku Generation," the day before the New York Anime Festival starts this December. They'll be discussing business strategies... Read more [...]