(1) UKRANIAN BRADBURY TRANSLATOR MOURNED. [Item by Susan de Guardiola.] It’s being reported that Ukrainian researcher/editor/translator/”culturologist” Yevhen Gulevich (Gulevych), who, among other things, was the translator of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, was killed fighting at Bakhmut in … Continue reading
The Achievement & Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas today announced its newest center, the Ad Astra Center for Science Fiction and Speculative Imagination. Led by Director Chris McKitterick, the Ad Astra Center for Science Fiction and the Speculative Imagination brings writers, … Continue reading
(1) If, like me, you’re a fan who has no books for sale yet inexplicably loves knowing all the inside minutiae of the publishing business, don’t miss Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s explanation of eBook territorial sales rights at Whatever, and the charming … Continue reading
(1) WHERE HAVE YOU GONE JOE DIMAGGIO? PrimaMedia.ru says on October 9 “Science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko will open the visiting session of LiTR-2023 in Harbin”. Harbin is a city in China. The author will proceed there from another literary … Continue reading
Astra Publishing House has acquired DAW Books. The deal was announced today in a press release run at Amazing Stories and elsewhere. DAW, although it has a distribution relationship with Penguin Group and is headquartered in Penguin USA’s offices in New York City, … Continue reading
What’s happening in the Liaden Universe®? Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have a new update for fans. They have a lot of books and stories on the way. FAIR TRADE. The 24th novel set in the Liaden Universe® is Fair … Continue reading
DECLASSIFIED! Seven Secret and Untold Stories From the Worldcon Press Office By Chris M. Barkley: For many, many years, I have wanted to write a manual specifically to pass along my knowledge, feeling and opinions about working in and operating … Continue reading
(1) NEW FIRST DOCTOR ANIMATION PLANNED. The next classic Doctor Who adventure to be animated using archival fragments is the opening story of the third season, “Galaxy Four”, reports the BBC. Galaxy 4 (alternatively spelled Galaxy Four) is the mostly-missing first serial … Continue reading
Exiting Trumplandia, November-December 2020 By Chris M. Barkley: FOUR YEARS AGO, 22 November 2016: “Barkley — Since You (Didn’t) Ask — Trumplandia, Weeks One and Two”. On October 28th, 1937, astronomer Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg University made a momentous discovery, … Continue reading
(1) UNDERESTIMATED CRISIS. Kristine Kathryn Rusch sounds overwhelmed in “Business Musings: A Crisis Like No Other (A Process Blog)” where she discusses her daily challenges and struggles as a writer. Well, I was wrong. A month or so ago, I … Continue reading