Daily Archives: August 7, 2007

Doctor Who and its attractions

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 … Continue reading

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Greg Pickersgill online

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 … Continue reading

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British Fantasy Awards shortlist announced

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 … Continue reading

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TokyoPop does TV online

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 … Continue reading

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Gibson’s Spookily Second Life

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 … Continue reading

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Warren Ellis gets his Freakangels online

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 … Continue reading

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Mythopoeic Awards

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 … Continue reading

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Sidewise Awards – winner announced

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. … Continue reading

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