The Guardian’s Arts and Entertainment blog has a post about the attraction of Doctor Who for actors given the recently quashed rumour of James Nesbit being the next Doctor. Now apparently Sir Ben Kingsley might be up for Davros (or should that be Sir Davros?). Doctor Who, it seems, has seeped back into popular consciousness […]
Bill Burns over at eFanzines has alerted me to the existence of Greg Pickersgill’s Can’t Get off the Island, a collection of his fannish writings which the fearless (and I assume knackered given the amount of things they are involved in) Mark Plummer and Claire Briarley have put together.
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UKSFBookNews has the shortlist for the British Fantasy Society awards. Its odd seeing the awesome Nova Swing on the list but if I were a betting guy, I’d go for one of the horror titles to win.
Novel: The August Derleth Award
Chaz Brenchley, BRIDGE OF DREAMS, Ace Books
Mike Carey, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, Orbit Books
Mark Chadbourn, […]
Tokyopop have launched an online video service for upcoming titles on Myspace. At the moment its got Riding Shotgun (set in a world where assasination is legal) but it also looks like you can get Bizenghast and Midnight Opera there as well.
It seems like a neat idea (Dark Horse are doing something similar) and I […]
Over at UKSFBookNews a while ago, there was mention of a Second Life visit by William Gibson to talk about Spook Country. I’ve managed to find a couple of video clips of him answering questions (part two here) and reading from the book.
A magazine site for Node has also been set up but contains spoilers […]
Warren Ellis is launching a webcomic with the artist Paul Duffield called FreakAngels.
As he puts it, this is an curiosity driven by the question of what did happen to the children after the ending of Wyndham’s Midwich Cuckoos as a chance of playing with steampunk and something British. Its also his crack at writing a […]
The Mythopoeic Awards were given out at Mythcon.
The winners are:
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature: Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip (Ace Books)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature: Corbenic by Catherine Fisher (Greenwillow)
Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies: The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (Houghton Mifflin)
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The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced. Gardner Dozois won for Counterfactual (originally publishing in the June 2006 edition of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction). Charles Stross won for the first three in the Clan Corporate series.
The nominees in the Long Form category are:
* 1862 by Robert Conroy (Presidio Press)
* The Tourmaline […]