If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the great things about film festivals like the Sundance is that occasionally a film that would otherwise struggle to find a distributor is snapped up by a major studio and all of sudden it has been packaged up and heading for the big screen. This is what happened with the science fiction thriller [...]
Thousands of science fiction fans have been voting for their favourite sci-fi TV shows, films and just about anything to do with the science fiction scene. These awards are just for 2009 sci-fi, although there was a life time achievement award for Gerry Anderson and well deserved that was too. The results of the SFX [...]
Imagine a world where you no longer have to leave the home to go about your daily business or even leisure activities. Everything that you do and everywhere you go can be done for you by a surrogate, a robotic double that never gets ill and stays fit and healthy. The main character is an [...]
Nobody can deny the popularity of science fiction TV shows such as Heroes and Lost, but this popularity has a down side and that is the illegal downloading of these programmes. It has been estimated that science fiction is the genre of choice for the computer user that like to obtain material from other sources, [...]
As files on the UK’s experiences with UFO’s are released, it seems that once the figures have been crunched certain dates or rather year’s show up as being prime years for UFO encounters. Take 1996, nothing really spectacular happened in that year although according to the recently released documents from the Ministry of Defence there [...]
Boom! Studios has produces what it calls a “graphic translation” of Phillip K. Dick’s 1968 novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The series will consist of about 24 issues, with the first issue released in July. The issues will also likely be collected into a series of hardcover volumes, each of which will contain [...]
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 [...]
Author Robin Parish has found a neat story that has everything that a science fiction fan could want in a book, Mars, Houston, Not too distant future and a crew of a spacecraft making their way to Earth. Reviews of Offworld have been kind, in fact, the author himself is so pleased that some reviews [...]
The independent publisher Elastic Press may have closed down, but its works just keep going and in fact, a science fiction collection has defied the critics and the current financial situation to beat off competition from heavy hitters like Faber, Vintage, Cape and Hamish Hamilton to win an influential contest. Elastic Press author Chris Becket [...]
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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