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), [...]
It must be awards season. Within a few minutes of when I finished writing about the final ballot for the Hugo Awards, I learned that the finalists have been announced for this years Locus Awards, a poll of the readers of Locus magazine. Despite being announced a couple of weeks after the finalists for the [...]
Splice the science fiction film where scientists blend DNA to produce a hybrid creature will be headlining the Sci-Fi London Film Festival to held at the Apollo Theatre in Piccadilly on the 28th April. The science fiction/horror film, stars Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley and has already been a big hit at the Sundance Film [...]
The Bafta nominations are sometimes a gauge for the Oscars, so if that is so then could this be the year that science fiction actually takes the Oscars by storm and maybe even win something? A gambling man would like those odds, but when it comes to Oscars and of course the Baftas nothing is [...]
Science fiction films have been around since filmmaking began, but at those glittering award ceremonies science fiction actors, writers and production staff have hardly been given a look in, but it seems that is all going to change. The change started when the most famous award The Oscars expanded the nomination process and this trend [...]
Could the next Oscar ceremony be the one where science fiction rules? Maybe not rule exactly but this time Star Trek is looking good for a nomination to the awards, but like all films no matter what the genre, it is the top prize that the producers want. In its favour is the fact that [...]
The 2010 SFX Weekender takes place over the weekend of the 5th and 6th February 2010, it takes place that the Pontins Holiday Park at Camber Sands in Kent and here is your chance to win a chalet for the weekend and up to six signing passes. To be in with a chance of winning [...]
Science fiction has never been so popular when it comes to television, there have always been the odd programme that stood such as, Battlestar Galactica in the 1970’s and V in the 1980’s, but these were sort of one off events. However, today science fiction is everywhere and fans are often spoilt for choice when [...]
The Scream 2009 award nominations by Spike TV are out and the lists of stars, films and TV programmes are no real surprise. It is Star Trek that takes the top spot with a massive seventeen nominations across the huge range of categories. Surprisingly this is only the fourth year that Scream has been run, [...]
The winners of the 2009 Hugo awards were announced on 9 August 2009, at Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Hugo for Best Novel went to The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK), by Neil Gaiman, while “The Erdmann Nexus” (Asimov’s Oct/Nov 2008), by Nancy Kress was awarded Best Novella [...]
Nominations for the World Fantasy Awards have been announced. Among writers with more than one nomination each are Kage Baker, Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Datlow, Jeffrey Ford, and Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s nominations include one for Best Novel, The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury), and for Best Novella, “Odd and the Frost Giants” (Bloomsbury; HarperCollins). Joining Gaiman [...]
The Shirley Jackson Awards for 2009 were announced at Readercon 20 on 12 July 2009 in Burlington, Massachusetts, in the US. The winners of the jury-voted awards included The Shadow Year (William Morrow), by Jeffrey Ford as Best Novel, The Diving Pool (Picador), by Yoko Ogawa as Best Collection and The New Uncanny (Comma), edited [...]
The producers of the hit series “Lost” have stated that they were shocked to hear that the fifth series has been nominated for an Emmy award. According to TV Guide, both Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof were in agreement that they did not think that the time travelling fifth series would be good enough to [...]
The winners of the John W. Campbell Award for the year’s best science fiction novel have been announced, and for only the third time in the award’s thirty-six year history, there was a tie. The winners are Little Brothers, by Cory Doctorow (Tor) and Song of Time, by Ian MacLeod (PS Publishing). The Campbell Award [...]
The winners of the 2009 Locus Awards were announced Saturday, 27 June, in Seattle, Washington. Among the winners were: Anathem, by Neal Stephenson (Atlantic UK, Morrow), as Best Science Fiction Novel Lavina, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt), as Best Fantasy Novel Singularity’s Ring, by Paul Melkor (Tor) as Best First Novel The Graveyard Book, [...]
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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