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SFWA reports that Paul A. Carter has retired from the John W. Campbell Memorial Award jury after serving since the 1970s. In his absence, Sheila Finch and Paul di Filippo will both join the jury, effective immediately. The John W. Campbell Memorial Award is presented annually by the Gunn Center ...
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Douglas Cohen has been promoted to editor at Realms of Fantasy. Cohen's past job descriptions at Realms have included slush reader, assistant editor, non-fiction editor, and art director. His new title will encompass all these tasks, and he will also take on managing editor duties. Shawna ...
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Douglas Adams
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Niall Harrison reports that John Clute has agreed
to write a review column for online magazine Strange
Horizons every six weeks, starting in 2010, under the banner Scores. Like the Interzone column of the same name, the new column will cover more than ...
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Clute to Review for Strange Horizons
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SCI FI Wire, the online news division of
Syfy (formerly the Sci Fi Channel), has canceled all
their columns, including long-running series from John Clute, Wil McCarthy, and Michael Cassutt. Clute was told that Syfy learned via research and focus ...
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SCI FI Wire Cancels Columns
Ray Bradbury has signed with White Oak Films to develop a miniseries, The Bradbury Chronicles, based on six of his short stories. Bradbury and White Oak's John Dayton will be the executive producers of the planned six-hour event. Dayton previously partnered with Bradbury on Showtime’s The Ray ...
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Joe Haldeman was released from a hospital in Cincinnati on November 10th, 2009. Haldeman writes: "It's beyond wonderful to be rid of the hospital room, the IV drips, the wretched immobility. Not to mention the scorns that a meritorious patient from th'unworthy take. The condo that Joel Zakem has ...
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Borders Group Inc. will close 200 Waldenbooks stores in January, cutting 1,500 jobs. The company plans to focus on more profitable superstores, and will leave only about 130 mall-based stores open. Borders shut down 112 stores during the 2008 fiscal year, and closed an average of 66 stores per ...
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locusmag.com - 15 days ago
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British fantasy author Louise Cooper, 57, died October
21, 2009 of a brain aneurysm at home in
Cornwall. Cooper was a prolific author who wrote over 80 books for adults and children. She was best known for her Time Master trilogy, and for her Indigo ...
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Louise Cooper, 1952 - 2009
Artist Dean Ellis, 88, died October 12, 2009 at home in Saratoga Springs, New York. Born 1920 in Detroit MI, Ellis studed at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, and served in the Pacific during WWII. He worked as an illustrator and painter after the war, and ...
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Warren Ellis
Ray Bradbury
locusmag.com - 16 days ago
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards, for
works of foreign-language speculative fiction translated into English, were
announced at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose on October 29, 2009. The first awards are expected to be ...
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New SF&F Translation Awards Launched
locusmag.com - 19 days ago
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The 2009 World Fantasy Award winners were announced
today at the World Fantasy Convention held October 29
- November 1, 2009, in San José, California. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTSEllen AsherJane YolenNOVEL (tie)The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)Tender ...
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World Fantasy Awards Winners
The 2009 World Fantasy Award winners were announced today at the World Fantasy Convention held October 29 - November 1, 2009, in San José, California. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTSEllen AsherJane YolenNOVEL (tie)The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; ...
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Kelly Link
Kage Baker
Jeffrey Ford
locusmag.com - 23 days ago
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Artist Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, died of a
heart attack in Arlington, Texas, on October 22, 2009.
Punchatz was known for his illustrations for magazines ranging from Boy's Life to Penthouse, for his advertising work, and for his book covers for Ace, ...
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Artist Don Ivan Punchatz Dies
