This year File 770 is partnering with AudioFile to announce the winners of the Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Audiobooks of 2022. They are listed below with links to AudioFile’s review. AudioFile also will be featuring exclusive interviews with narrators from Best Audiobooks 2022 across all the categories … 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
(1) PUBLISHER CUTS TIES WITH MYKE COLE. Angry Robot, which published their first Myke Cole book, Sixteenth Watch, in March, says they won’t be bringing out any more. Cole previously had a trilogy published by Tor, and another series by … Continue reading
The Dublin 2019 Worldcon Bid will be supporting a science fiction and fantasy books Outreach program, where they give away free new and secondhand books at various conventions and events in the UK and Ireland, and encourage people to attend … Continue reading
By John King Tarpinian: Sometimes you get lucky. I happened to be going over to my neighborhood bookshop, Mystery and Imagination, to show them an article in the current Los Angeles Magazine, which just happened to have a quote by Guillermo … Continue reading
(1) SCAM TARGETING WESTERN AUTHORS PURPORTS TO BE FROM SCIENCE FICTION WORLD. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] On Saturday May 11th, the Weibo account of Science Fiction World magazine issued a statement about fraudulent emails addressed to authors. The emails claimed that SFW … Continue reading
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) of the United Kingdom announced the longlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards on April 20. The Daggers were first given in 1955, however, for the first five years CWA called its top honor the Crossed Red Herring Award. The … Continue reading
The judging panel’s nominees for the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards 2024 have been announced. FANTASY SCIENCE FICTION BLURRED BOUNDARIES NOVELLA SHORT FICTION The book critics responsible for these honors are:
(1) ARE THESE YOUR FAVORITE SPOILERS? “Doctor Who’s Alex Kingston on hiding River Song’s biggest spoiler” at Radio Times. Beware spoilers. Further warning: the one excerpted below is not the “biggest spoiler” referred to in the headline. “She’s not a … Continue reading
(1) LISTEN UP, BUCKAROOS. Dan Berger has served for the last nineteen years as the editor-in-chief of World Watch One, the Buckaroo Banzai fan newsletter/zine. Dan sent the link to their latest issue with a note, “I’m not sure you … Continue reading