Fundraising Anthologies
We wanted to draw your attention to a couple of wonderful projects that are taking place. The first of these is Flotation Device, a charity anthology from the Glasgow SF [...]
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Latest StarShipSofa and Tales To Terrify podcasts available
StarShipSofa‘s latest podcast (#252) is available now with fiction from Adam Roberts along with a look at the anthology Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science [...]
Award-winning SF novelist Harry Harrison dies aged 87
The BFS is sad to learn that legendary science fiction writer Harry Harrison has died at the age of 87. The award-winning author penned numerous novels throughout his career, [...]
Latest podcasts available from StarShipSofa and Tales to Terrify
New audio podcasts are available from both StarShipSofa (science fiction) and Tales to Terrify (horror). StarShipSofa #250 includes fiction by Bruce Sterling, and Tales to [...]
Columbia University acquires rare Ballantine Books collection
Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library has announced Betty Ballantine’s gift of a collection of books and papers relating the work of her and [...]
Chris Marker, film-maker who inspired modern sf, dies
Chris Marker, the French film-maker whose short film La Jetée (The Jetty) inspired several leading science fiction authors and film-makers, has died at the age of 91. His [...]
Fredric Brown is this year’s Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award winner
SFScope reports that Fredric Brown has been announced as this year’s Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award winner. The Award is given to “a science fiction or [...]
New deal with Tor UK for Peter F. Hamilton
In a press release from Tor UK it has been announced as follows: ‘Bella Pagan, Senior Commissioning Editor at Tor UK, has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights to two [...]
2012 Campbell and Sturgeon Award winners announced
SFScope have reported that the winners of this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story published in 2011) and John W. Campbell [...]
Amazing Stories magazine to relaunch
Steve Davidson will be relaunching Amazing Stories – the world’s first science fiction magazine – on 1 July 2012. It returns with the publication of [...]