US SF&F Writer Michael Bishop on ITALCON 39 : 23rd – 26th of May 2013,...
© Michael Bishop Michael Bishop was the 2013 Italcon’s Guest of Honor and he wrote “a personal perspective” on it for Locus Online : ”Italcon 39: Before, During, and After: A Personal Perspective by...
View ArticleBritish Writer C.J.Sansom, Winner of the Sidewise Awards
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best allohistorical genre publications of the year. The awards were created by Steven H Silver, Evelyn C. Leeper, and...
View ArticleGerman science-fiction award DSFP 2013 decided
The Deutsche Science Fiction Preis (DSFP) is an annual science-fiction award for the best short story and the best novel written in German language. These days the decision had been announced: The...
View ArticleWriting Worlds. Models of World and Space in the Fantastic, Wetzlar, Germany,...
“Writing Worlds. Models of World and Space in the Fantastic” is the fourth annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung e.V. (Association for Research in the Fantastic, a prestigious...
View Article2013 Hugo Award Winners
The 2013 Hugo Award winners were announced at the LoneStarCon 3/2013 Worldcon on Sunday evening, September 1st, at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The Guests of Honor had...
View ArticleFrederik Pohl (November 26, 1919- September 2, 2013) : A Life Dedicated to...
The US SF writer Frederik Pohl died on the 2nd of September at the age of 93 at a hospital near his home in Palatine, (northwest of Chicago), Illinois, USA. Frederik Pohl (Frederik George Pohl, Jr. was...
View ArticleSpanish SF News – Ricardo Manzanaro (Spain)
“Terra Nova 2” ”Terra Nova” anthology, about which I reported in past newsletters, has achieved good reviews and sales. And now it has been announced a “Terra Nova 2″ launch. It will be published on...
View ArticleRusskaya Fantastika, New Russian Language SF&Fantasy Titles & News, September...
Many, many things are to be released on the russophone market in the month of September 2013. It seems that the phenomenon of “la rentrée littéraire” (the restarting of the literary season) is not...
View ArticleThe Autumnal Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation – Jonathan Cowie
SF2 Concatenation The autumnal Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation is now up : http://www.concatenation.org SF2 Concatenation only has three seasonal editions a year and this is...
View ArticleStephen King in Europe : Paris, Munich and Hamburg (13th to 20th November 2013)
„In collaboration with publishers Albin Michel and Heyne/Random House, Stephen King will be making his first official visit to France and Germany in November, including events for the public in both...
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