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» Quarterly e-zine Aeon Speculative Fiction is suspending publication

» GalleyCat updates Tobias S. Buckell, recently hospitalized

» Walter Jon Williams chatted to a space being for 30 minutes -- International Space Station mission commander, and fan, Col. Michael Fincke

» Rick Klaw reviews Bradley Denton's Laughin' Boy

» Best SF Presents resumes posting stories with Tony Ballantyne's A New Beginning

» Shiny Issue 5 has YA stories by Bren MacDibble, Michael Merriam, and Rhonda Parrish

» PBS' MediaShift: Pulp Magazines Struggle to Survive in Wired World

» BookSpot Beat talks with Jetse de Vries about optimistic SF

» Fantastic Literature's November list is now online

» The Endeavour Award is auctioning two figurines given by Hayao Miyazaki to Ursula K. Le Guin, beginning this Saturday, 22 November

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FUTURE HISTORY
Author Events 17 - 23 Nov
Connie Willis, Benjamin Parzybok, Caitlin Kiernan, James Barclay, Ray Harryhausen, Neal Asher...

Conventions 21-23 Nov
» New England Fan Experience -Cambridge MA
» OryCon -Portland
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» January '09 Asimov's SF features posted online include Sheila Williams' editorial, Paul Di Filippo's On Books, James Patrick Kelly's On the Net: Hear Now, and Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column Hic Rhodus, Hic Salta

» Boston Globe interviews Peter Straub about Poe's Children and horror in general; also, Erica Noonan reviews Stephen King's Just After Sunset, and David Mehegan interviews Gregory Maguire

» Reason Magazine's article about Tor Books asks When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist?

» December Intergalactical Medicine Show has stories by David Farland, Orson Scott Card, Marie Brennan, and others, plus an interview with Harry Turtledove

» Mid-November SF Site reviews C.L. Moore, Alastair Reynolds, John Kessel, Kim Harrison, Michael Moorcock, John Scalzi, City of Ember, and others

» SciFiDimensions podcasts an interview with Lou Anders and reviews Fast Forward 2

» AfterElton's 50 Best Gay Books include titles by Michael Chabon, Perry Moore, Jim Grimsley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Steve Berman, and Ellen Kushner

» Chasing Ray (Colleen Mondor) interviews Ellen Datlow about editing adult vs YA, genre vs non-genre

» Book View Cafe offers free fiction and blog posts by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Anne Harris, Brenda Clough, Jennifer Stevenson, and others

» StarShipSofa's weekly podcasts include an interview with Hal Duncan and stories by Paul Di Filippo and Gord Sellar

» Variety: Brian Yuzna will produce three 3-D movies including an adaptation of Terry Bisson's "Necronauts"

» Beneath Ceaseless Skies has new fiction by Charles Coleman Finlay & Rae Carson Finlay, Marie Brennan, and others

» BookSpotCentral interviews Brent Weeks and interviews Tobias S. Buckell

» Concatenation has PDF A Better Mousetrap, by Mike Resnick, from Nature's futures series

» Paradox Magazine: Greg Beatty reviews Harry Turtledove's After the Downfall

» Amazon UK's Best SF & Fantasy Books in 2008 are by Peter F. Hamilton, Terry Pratchett, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alan Campbell, Peter V. Brett, Liz Williams, Nick Harkaway, and Adrian Tchaikovsky

» Guardian: Ian McDonald's Brasyl is one of 20 finalists for the multi-genre, £50,000 biannual Warwick Prize -- whose judging panel is chaired by China Miéville

» New Scientist's science fiction special includes Marcus Chown asking Is science fiction dying? and contributions from Margaret Atwood, Stephen Baxter, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Nick Sagan

• Locus Magazine is having an end-of-year sale on Back Issues

» redOrbit: Ray Bradbury is guest programmer on Turner Classic Movies this month

» Hollywood Reporter: HBO has ordered a pilot based on George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

» Cosmos Magazine has new story A Place to Call Home, by Amber D. Sistla

» The New Yorker has story Lostronaut, by Jonathan Lethem



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Thursday 20 November 2008

BREAKING NEWS : Awards: Chesley Awards Winners


Winners of this year's Chesley Awards for science fiction and fantasy art have been announced on the Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists (ASFA) website.

Wednesday 19 November 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: second week November

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the second week of November include Orson Scott Card's Ender in Exile, Stephen King's Just After Sunset, Jeffrey Ford's The Drowned Life, and other titles by Kelley Armstrong, Jane Lindskold, Juliet Marillier, Todd McCaffrey, R.M. Meluch, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John Ringo & Travis B. Taylor, and Sharon Shinn, plus Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Wagner, Golden, & Bissette.

Tuesday 18 November 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

hamilton Laurell K. Hamilton's Swallowing Darkness and Sherrilyn Kenyon's One Silent Night debut strongly on hardcover and paperback lists, respectively, this week; J.K. Rowling's pre-publication Amazon sales jump a bit, and while Charlaine Harris' rankings slip a bit, all seven of her Sookie Stackhouse novels still occupy spots on mass market paperback lists.

Sunday 16 November 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: November


What's in new issues of The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Murky Depths, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and Science Fiction Studies.

Friday 14 November 2008

BREAKING NEWS : Update: Forrest J Ackerman


Forrest J Ackerman's close friend and caregiver, Joe Moe, reports that Ackerman has rallied in the past week; "let everyone know that their tributes, stories and prayers have had a miraculous effect on Forry".
» SF Crowsnest has Moe's complete update

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: first week November

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the first week of November include Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go, Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye, John Updike's The Widows of Eastwick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.'s The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, and other titles by Arthur, Bear, Carver, Douglas, Drake, Hill & Rodriguez, Kent, McPherson, Raiser, Schoen & Dorrance, Shepherd, Weeks, and White.

Thursday 13 November 2008

REVIEWS : Books: Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, November

flynn November New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Kristin Cashore's Graceling, Michael Flynn's The January Dancer, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels, Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Gene Wolfe's An Evil Guest, and others.

Wednesday 12 November 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers: Locus Magazine Bestsellers, November

david weber Bestsellers, compiled by Locus Magazine from specialty bookstores, are led by David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder, Patricia Briggs' Cry Wolf, Steven Erikson's Toll the Hounds, Chrisopher L. Bennett's Star Trek: The Next Generation: Greather than the Sum, and R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms: The Orc King.

Tuesday 11 November 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

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Stephen King's Just After Sunset debuts this week, as do titles by Keri Arthur, Karen Traviss, and Drew Karpyshyn; Charlaine Harris still occupies seven spots on the New York Times and USA Today lists.

Sunday 9 November 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: last week October

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of October include Ian R. MacLeod's Song of Time, Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation, Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion, anthologies from Peter Straub, Steve Berman, and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, and other titles by Baird, Berman, Brown, Evenson, Foster, Rich, Sagara, Simon & Deeley, VanderMeer, Wallace/Howison/Bradley, Willerth, and Wilson.

Friday 7 November 2008

BREAKING NEWS : Correction: Forrest J Ackerman



News last night of the death of Forrest J Ackerman was apparently premature, and Locus Online apologizes for the erroneous post.
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PERSPECTIVES : Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight

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The existence of culture is why copyright is valuable. The fact that we have a bottomless appetite for songs to sing together, for stories to share, for art to see and add to our visual vocabulary is the reason that people will pay money for these things.

Wednesday 5 November 2008

NEWS : Obituary: Michael Crichton



Best-selling writer, film director, and TV producer Michael Crichton died yesterday, November 4, 2008, at the age of 66.

Tuesday 4 November 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

luceno James Luceno's Star Wars: Millennium Falcon, Kelley Armstrong's Living with the Dead, the paperback of Stephen King's Duma Key, and titles by Jonathan Carroll and John Updike all debut on lists this week; meanwhile, Charlaine Harris continues dominance of the New York Times paperback list, with seven titles in the top 20.

Sunday 2 November 2008

NEWS : Awards : World Fantasy Awards Winners

This year's winners include Guy Gavriel Kay's novel Ysabel, Elizabeth Hand's novella Illyria, and Theodora Goss' short story "Singing of Mount Abora", with other categories won by Ellen Datlow, Robert Shearman, Edward Miller, Peter Crowther, and Midori Snyder & Terri Windling. Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Leo & Diane Dillon and Patricia A. McKillip.

Saturday 1 November 2008

NEWS : Locus Magazine: November Issue

november issue The November issue of Locus Magazine, mailed October 30th to subscribers, features interviews with Greg Bear, Paul Melko, and Gardner Dozois, a new column by Cory Doctorow, short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, and reviews of new books by Peter Straub, James P. Blaylock, Jack McDevitt, Gene Wolfe, K.J. Parker, Shaun Tan, and many others.

Friday 31 October 2008

NEWS : Awards : International Horror Guild Awards Winners

This year's winners, announced today, include Dan Simmons' novel The Terror, Lucius Shepard's collection Dagger Key and long fiction Softspoken, Ellen Datlow's anthology Inferno, and other works by Lisa Tuttle, Nancy Etchemendy, Thomas Ligotti, Tim Lucas, and Elizabeth McGrath -- plus Postscripts for Periodical and Peter Straub as this year's Living Legend.

Wednesday 29 October 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: October


What's in new issues of Crimewave, Dreams and Nightmares, Interzone, Jupiter, Lovecraft Annual, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The New York Review of Science Fiction.

Tuesday 28 October 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

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Gregory Maguire's A Lion Among Men debuts on print lists this week, as high as #4 on three of them. Also debuting: Brandon Sanderson's The Hero of Ages, M.T. Anderson's The Kingdom of the Waves, and F. Paul Wilson's By the Sword.






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Forthcoming Books

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Interviews with Michael Chabon and Greer Gilman

Locus Survey results

Obituary and appreciations of Thomas M. Disch

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Locus Poll results

Special section on Young Adult Fiction

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Tributes to
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