Pan Macmillan buys Kingfisher from Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin sold children's book publisher Kingfisher, which publishes fiction and non-fiction, to the UK's Pan Macmillan. In the US, it will be run by...
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Malcolm-Clarke, Tobler sell to Fantasy Magazine
Sean Wallace, co-editor of Fantasy Magazine reports the purchase of two short stories: "His One True Bride" by Darja Malcolm-Clarke and "The Lodger at Wintertide" by Elise Tobler...
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Juliet E. McKenna sells fantasy trilogy to Solaris
Juliet E. McKenna sold the Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution, a new fantasy trilogy, to Solaris, which expects...
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NASA sponsors art contest to depict “Life and Work on the Moon”
NASA is sponsoring an art contest, open to college students in the US, with the theme "Life and Work on the Moon." There will be cash prizes and exhibit opportunities for winners...
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Paul Kearney sells epic fantasy to Solaris
Paul Kearney sold The Ten Thousand to Solaris, which intends to publish it in the UK and the US next summer. The story is...
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Review of Masters of Science Fiction’s “Jerry Was a Man”
"Jerry Was a Man," perhaps too much a man for the subtlety of the original Heinlein story to work its way through this adaptation, but I'm still enamored of Masters of Science Fiction...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week of August
The highest ranking genre movie this week was Stardust which only managed a fourth-place opening, but there are three other genre films in the top ten...
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Lou Anders announces Sideways in Crime lineup
Lou Anders has announced the expected table of contents for his original anthology, Sideways in Crime, which Solaris will publish...
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Sourcebooks new romance lines to include paranormal, fantasy, science fiction
Sourcebooks will be introducing their first fiction titles this September, with a paranormal romance called Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, about a ghost and...
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Joe Abercrombie Sells Two More “First Law” Novels to Gollancz
Joe Abercrombie sold two new stand-alone novels set the universe he created in The First Law trilogy. The new books will be...
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Dark Horse Bringing Gantz to the US
Dark Horse Comics has won the right to publish the US edition of Hiroya Oku's Gantz, one of the most popular seinen manga in Japan. Gantz tells the story of...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fifth Week of July
Genre films are fewer and farther between, as only two make the top ten box office grossers last week, and only another six are in the top 25...
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Many, many Potters
Scholastic announced some awe-inspiring sales numbers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and we fiddled with them just a little...
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Top Box Office Grossers: Fourth Week of July
Yet another new week, yet another new release, and yet another new number one. This week, however, it isn't a genre film, but a faux-gay comedy that beats off the young wizard's run (although the release of his seventh book may have been part of what kept them away in droves)...
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More Potter Numbers
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold more than 2.5 million copies in its first day in the UK, an increase of...
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