If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!. The British Science Fiction Association has announced the finalists for its annual awards, for works published in 2010, in four categories, including Novel, Short Fiction, Non-Fiction and Artwork. The nominees for the Novel category include The Windup Girl (Orbit), [...]
Science fiction and fantasy made a respectable showing when the American Library Association announced its annual awards on 10 January at its midwinter conference in San Diego, California. Ship Breaker (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), by Hugo and Nebula Award winner Paolo Bacigalupi, was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature [...]
If you were a member of Aussiecon 4, last year’s Worldcon, or if you are a member of Renovation, this year’s Worldcon, you may submit nominations for the Hugo Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. In fact, even if you are not yet a member of Renovation you will still [...]
Unpublished novelists take note. Publisher Angry Robot has announced that it will accept unsolicited manuscripts from writers not represented by agents during March 2011, for consideration for possible publication. Calling it Open Door Month, the publisher says that if the March period of open submissions is successful, it will consider opening similar periods in the [...]
Eastercon, one of the biggest science fiction and fantasy conventions in the UK, will be held at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel in Birmingham, runs 22 through 25 April 2011. Named Illustrous 2011, Eastercon has announced its guests of honor, as well as a new take on the traditional Masquerade and a couple of competitions [...]
There’s an interesting experiment going on at Baen Books’ website, one that has the effect of benefiting readers of science fiction and fantasy by offering free electronic copies of some of its books. The experiment seems to be working out for the publisher, which specializes in space opera, hard science fiction, military science fiction, and [...]
Solaris Books has announced two new titles, one a horror anthology that is available now and the other a fantasy novel that will be available early next year. In addition, Solaris has also said it will publish a supernatural thriller by Christopher Fowler in early 2012. The End of the Line, edited by Jonathan Oliver, [...]
It might come as a bit of surprise to some science fiction and fantasy readers that the romance genre has a place for sf/fantasy and that many readers of romance novels like a little science fiction and/or fantasy with their romance. Others might not be nearly as surprised to discover that there are several categories [...]
October saw the release of two new novels from well-known names in science fiction and fantasy, Stephen R. Donaldson and Connie Willis. First up is All Clear, from multiple Hugo and Nebula-award winning Connie Willis. All Clear is a sequel to her Blackout, and returns too the time-travel theme of her earlier volumes, The Doomsday [...]
Sir Terry Pratchett, the fantasy writer best known for his Discworld series, was named a winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Galaxy National Book Awards on 10 November. This is the first year that the Outstanding Achievement Award was given as part of the industry group’s awards. Winners of the awards, which also [...]
Publisher Simon and Schuster has announced its November releases, including two blockbuster collections from names familiar to readers of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Coming in November Full Dark, No Stars from Stephen King. In the tradition of his early collections Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, Full Dark, No Stars includes four stories from [...]
Angry Robot Books has several new novels available to readers in the United States and Canada in November in the fantasy, urban fantasy, and science fiction genres. In The Book of Secrets, by Chris Roberson, reporter Spencer Finch comes into possession of an old manuscript. He doesn’t know exactly what he has, but when he [...]
The 2010 World Fantasy Awards were presented as part of the World Fantasy Convention on Sunday, 31 October in Columbus, Ohio. The awards were for works published in 2009. Winner in the Novel category was The City & The City (Macmillan UK/Del Rey), by China Miéville. The book has already won the 2010 Arthur C. [...]
J. K. Rowling , author of the Harry Potter books, has added another honor to her collection. Ms. Rowling was announced as the recipient of the first Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize. The prize is meant for writers whose works are deemed comparable to that of the Danish writer of fairy tales such as “The [...]
The winners of the World Fantasy Life Achievement Awards have been announced ahead of the awards’ presentation at the awards banquet at World Fantasy Convention 36, to be held 28 through 31 October in Columbus, Ohio. There are three honorees this year, including Brian Lumley, Terry Pratchett and Peter Straub. The three writers are being [...]
Comic-Con has signed an agreement to remain in San Diego after the city promised to expand its convention facilities to accommodate the convention, which has grown from its modest beginnings in 1970, with 300 comics fans in attendance, to become the largest convention of its kind with an annual attendance of 125,000. Comic-Con has sold [...]
The winners of the Geffen Awards, given by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy, have been named. The Awards were presented at ICon, the Israeli Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, held each year in Tel Aviv over the Sukkot holiday, this year at the end of September. This year, the winner as Best [...]
Winners of the 2010 Sunburst Awards for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic have been announced. The award this year is for books published in 2009. In order to be eligible for the award, a work must be by a native or naturalized Canadian citizen either living in Canada or abroad, or by a Landed Immigrant [...]
The winners of the 2010 British Fantasy Awards, presented by the British Fantasy Society, were announced during Fantasycon 2010 in Nottingham UK. The August Derlith Fantasy Award, for Best Novel, went to One (Virgin), by Conrad Williams, while The Language of Dying (PS), by Sarah Pinborough was named Best Novella and the Best Short Story [...]
The 2010 Hugo Award winners were announced last weekend in Melbourne, Australia as part of Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention. Among the most prestigious awards in the science fiction genre the Hugos, named for science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback, have been presented every year since 1955. This year there was a tie [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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