If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Dreadnought (Tor), by Cherie Priest, has won the 13th Endeavour Award, given to a science fiction or fantasy novel or to a science fiction/fantasy collection by a single author from the Pacific Northwest. The award was announced recently at [...]
The winners of this year’s Locus Awards for science fiction and fantasy were announced Saturday, 26 June 2010, in Seattle, Washington. Boneshaker (Tor), by Cherie Priest, was named Best SF Novel by the readers of Locus Magazine, while the Best Fantasy Novel winner was The City & The City (Del Rey; Macmillan UK), by China [...]
The Nebula Awards, voted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA), will be awarded at a banquet during meetings to be held 14 – 16 May 2010 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Nebulas have been awarded every year since the SWFA was founded in 1965 and are voted by the writers themselves, [...]
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 [...]
I’ve just spent about an hour looking around at the official site of the Hugo Awards, nominations for which were announced earlier this month, on 4 April. Fascinating site. Well, fascinating for me, because I’ve always been fascinated by awards and by the people who manage to win them. But it should be interesting to [...]
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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