If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The winners of the Nebula Awards, sponsored by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, were presented on Saturday 21 May 2011 in Washington, DC, as a part of the Nebular Awards Weekend. Best Novel went to Connie [...]
Winners of The Nebula Awards, voted on and presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, were announced an awards banquet held 15 May in Cape Canaveral, Florida as part of the SWFA’s Nebula Weekend. The Nebula for a Novel went to The Windup Girl (Night Shade Books, Sept 2009), by Paolo Pacigalupi, [...]
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, [...]
The thing about e-books is that there is no paper, printing or anything else that would be associated with an actual book, so according to the online bookseller Amazon this should be reflected in the price. But the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has cut links with Amazon following a dispute but the [...]
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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