Tag Archives: US

Top Box Office Grossers: Second Week in July 2011

Other than two new comedies (which couldn't dethrone the mighty morphin' power robots), the film charts were remarkably static this week as US box offices held their collective breath waiting for the eighth coming of Harry Potter... Read more [...]

Apex Publications signs distribution deal with Diamond Book Distributors

Two weeks after announcing a bid for crowdsourced investors, Apex Publications has signed a distribution deal with Diamond Book Distributors that will place their books in physical bookstores in the US and UK... Read more [...]

Magazine of Speculative Poetry issue 9.1 mailing soon

Editor Roger Dutcher reports the new issue of The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, with work by Geoffrey A. Landis, Mark Rich, Ann K. Schwader, and others, will be mailing soon... Read more [...]

Happy holiday! We’ll be in Baltimore

Join us at Balticon this weekend, because we won't be here... Read more [...]

2011 Philip K. Dick Award Winner

This year's Philip K. Dick Award for best original US paperback sf novel goes to The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder, with a special citation to Harmony by Project Itoh... Read more [...]

Orbit Short Fiction debuts today with four offerings

Orbit Book's Orbit Short Fiction debuts today with works by Mira Grant, T.C. McCarthy, Jennifer Rardin, Jaye Wells... Read more [...]

Nonstop Press offering lifetime subscriptions

Nonstop Press is, for a limited time, offering lifetime subscriptions to all their already- and yet-to-be published titles... Read more [...]

Guy Haley sells a Mars novel to Solaris

Guy Haley sold Champion of Mars to Solaris. The book charts the troubled history of the red planet over millennia... Read more [...]

Shaun Tan wins this year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

Shaun Tan is the winner of this year's Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature... Read more [...]

Orbit Books to publish short fiction starting in April

Starting in mid-April Orbit Books will publish original short fiction as eBooks. The first four will be works by Mira Grant, T.C. McCarthy, Jennifer Rardin, and Jaye Wells... Read more [...]

2011 Philip K. Dick Award Judges Named

The five judges of the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback science fiction novel have been named... Read more [...]

Orbit launches electronic doubles

Orbit is launching electronic doubles with a special promotion of Daniel Abraham's The Dragon's Path and James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes... Read more [...]

Books Received: February 2011

Books received for review during the month of February 2011. This page is updated throughout the month. Read more [...]

Curtis Jobling sells two more Wereworld books to Puffin

Wereworld book 1 was released last month. Now Puffin has signed author Curtis Jobling to write books three and four... Read more [...]

PS Publishing updates, and winners of their October give-aways

Peter Crowther tells customers that shipping to the US has been delayed by external forces, but is returning to normal; names the winners of the massive October give-aways; and lists upcoming releases... Read more [...]

SFScope

Your source of news about the speculative fiction fields