Dragon*Con founder Edward Kramer was arrested on September 13, 2011 after being discovered alone with a 14-year-old boy in a motel room in Connecticut. Milford Police have charged Kramer with misdemeanor reckless endangerment of a child, according to defense attorney Edwin Marger. Kramer has claimed to be too ill to stand trial for multiple previous [...]

The winners of the Sunburst Awards for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic were announced: Adult: Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada) Watch, Robert J. Sawyer (Penguin Canada) Chimerascope, Douglas Smith (ChiZine) A Taint in the Blood, S.M. Stirling (New American Library) Stealing Home, Hayden Trenholm (Bundoran) Young Adult: Bookweirder, Paul Glennon (Doubleday Canada) Shapeshifter, Holly Bennett [...]

The 2011 Emperor Norton Awards winners are: Steven R. Boyett for his novel Mortality Bridge (Subterranean) Rudy Rucker for his autobiography Nested Scrolls (PS Publishing) Both authors were on hand to receive their awards. The awards are given for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason,” in memory of Joshua Norton [...]

Winners of the 2011 Seiun Awards, the Japanese equivalent to the Hugos, were announced at Donbura Con L, the 50th Japanese Science Fiction Convention, Sept 3-4, 2011. Japanese Novel: Kyonen wa Ii Toshi ni Narudarou (Last Year Was Probably a Good Year), Yamamoto Hiroshi Japanese Short Story: “Arisuma-oo no Aishita Mamono” (“King Arisuma’s Beloved Demon”), Ogawa [...]

The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund seeks candidates for the 2012 Eastbound TAFF trip. Winners will attend the 2012 EasterCon in London April 6-9, 2012, and will administer TAFF for two years. Candidates must be nominated by five science fiction fans, three of whom must be residents of North America and the other two residents of Europe. [...]

The second Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo and twenty-fifth WonderCon have announced their dates and venues for 2012. Chicago’s C2E2 will be held April 13-15, 2012, in the North Hall of McCormick Place Convention Center. This will be a slight change of venue from the West Building of McCormick Place, where C2E2 was held last year. [...]

Winners for the 2011 Parsec Awards, honoring excellence in speculative fiction podcasting, were announced at Dragon*Con in Atlanta on September 3rd, 2011: Best Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form) “Saying the Names”, Maggie Clark (Lightspeed) “The Taste of Starlight”, John R. Fultz (Lightspeed) “Neighbors”, Eddy Jones; read by Arioch Morningstar (Tuesday Terror) “Loyalty”, Renee Jordan; edited [...]

Writer Ed Bryant was checked into a Colorado hospital on August 27, 2011 (his 66th birthday) with gastroparesis, a complication of diabetes that affects the throat, the stomach, and the digestive process. He was transferred out of intensive care on September 4, and according to Melanie Tem, “his heart and kidneys appear to be OK.” [...]