Actor Richard Lynch has died at his home in California at the age of 76. He was a regular horror movie “villain”, appearing in films including Scarecrow (1973), [...]
BBC Books is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice by Stephen Baxter, an all-new Doctor Who adventure starring The Second Doctor, [...]
A new magazine of speculative fiction, Plasma Frequency Magazine, is launching soon and is seeking submissions. They are looking for stories ranging from 100 words to 7,500 [...]
Locus Online has confirmed the passing of Ray Bradbury on 5 June 2012 at the age of 91. Despite having suffered a stroke, he remained active into his 90s, continuing his [...]
Arc 1.2, the second edition of the new quarterly from the makers of New Scientist which explores the future through science fiction and science fact, is now available to [...]
The finalists for the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science fiction story published in 2011) and for the 2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for [...]
Free-to-download podcasts, Tales To Terrify and StarShipSofa, have new content available now. This month, Tales to Terrify features fiction from Alison Littlewood, while [...]
Interzone issue 240 – marking the completion of Interzone‘s thirtieth year of publication – is out now. Contents include fiction from Lavie Tidhar, [...]
Angry Robot has scooped another fantastic debut author with the signing of Chicago-based science fiction writer Wesley Chu. The World English Rights deal – negotiated [...]
The 2011 Nebula Award winners were announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America on 19 May 2012. Winners include Among Others by Jo Walton (Best Novel), the [...]