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Author Frank K. Kelly (b. 1914) died on June 11, one day shy of his 96th birthday. Kelly began writing stories in 1931 when “Light Bender” appeared in Wonder Stories. Kelly published a total of ten stories over the next four years, three of which he would publish in his only collection, Starship Invincible [...]
Cheryl Morgan has announced the launch of Wizard’s Tower Press. Her new venture will focus on publishing quality e-books of long out-of-print authors, publishing anthologies by new and minority authors, and publishing an on-line literary magazine, Salon Futura, which will launch at Aussiecon 4, this year’s worldcon, in Melbourne. In addition, Wizard’s Tower Press [...]
Actress Vonetta McGee(b. 1940) died on July 9. McGee appeared in the films Blacula, Brother Future, and Repo Man. McGee believed that the term “Blaxploitation,” which was applied to many of the films she appeared in, hurt her career opportunities.
Pyr has announced the winners of its fifth anniversary essay contest. First prize, which includes a trip to DragonCon, dinner with Lou Anders, Mike Resnick, James Enge, Jon Sprunk, and Sam Sykes, was awarded to Lisa Iriarte. Second place went to Robert Rhoades and third to L. Lambert Lawson.
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Nominees for the Prix Rosny, presented by the French National Science Fiction Convention, have been announced. The winners will be announced at this year’s convention in Grenoble, the weekend of August 26-29.
Novels
Le Déchronologue, by Stéphane Beauverger
Tancrède. Une uchronie, by Ugo Bellagamba
Outrage et rébellion, by Catherine Dufour
La Loi du désert, by Frank Ferrik
Suprématie, by Laurent [...]
Actor Peter Fernandez (b. 1927) died on July 15. Fernandez is best known for his involvement with the 1967 anime series Speed Racer, providing the voicework for both Speed Racer and Racer X and writing scripts. Other shows of genre interest he worked on include Captain Video and His Video Rangers, Gigantor, and Space [...]
Christa Newman has been declared the winner of the BookView Café’s Extraordinary Steampunk Photo Contest. Newman will receive copies of The Shadow Conspiracy: Tales of the Steam Age, volumes one and two for her picture of a leather apron clad steampunk diva. Randolph Fritz took second prize and readers’ choice.
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The nominees for the 2009 Endeavour Awards, to be presented at OryCon 32 for fiction written by Pacific Northwest authors, have been announced. The award includes a grant of $1,000. This year’s panel of judges included Robin Wayne Bailey, Laura Anne Gilman, and Madeleine Robins.
City Without End, by Kay Kenyon
Eyes Like Sky and Coal [...]
The Harvey Award nominations have been announced. The awards, named for Harvey Kurtzmann, recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. The awards will be presented on August 28 at the Baltimore Comic Con.
Best Writer
Scalped, by Jason Aaron
Blackest Night, by Geoff Johns
The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3: The Last [...]
The winner of the 2010 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award was announced at Readercon. The award seeks to recognize and draw attention to lesser-known fantasy or science fiction authors. This year’s award went to Mark Clifton, perhaps best known for co-authoring the second novel to win the Hugo Award, They’d Rather Be Right (a.k.a. The Forever [...]