Archive for October, 2011
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Beta Launched
The beta version of the new online incarnation of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has launched. The editors say, “We think we’re about 3/4 of the way through compiling the Encyclopedia. Our current 3.2m wordcount will probably expand to 4.2m by the time we’re done at the end of 2012. So there will be some [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2011 under Publishing.
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Barnes & Noble Pulls DC Titles
Barnes & Noble yanked physical copies of 100 DC Comics titles from shelves after the publisher cut its first digital rights deal exclusively with Amazon for those books. The titles are scheduled to be released in conjunction with the launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, their first color e-reader. B&N said it is following company policy [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2011 under Bookstores, Publishing.
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Winner of British Fantasy Award for Best Novel Returns Prize
The winner of the 2011 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Sam Stone, announced that she is returning her prize. According to The Guardian, this year’s awards have been drawing controversy since they were presented October 2, 2011 at FantasyCon in Brighton. Editor Stephen Jones posted a blog entry criticizing several aspects of the awards, [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2011 under Awards.
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New Owner Sought for Science Fiction Awards Watch
Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee of Science Fiction Awards Watch are looking for new owners to take over running the site. Science Fiction Awards Watch was founded in 2007 and reports on genre-related awards news, including nominations, finalists, and winners. Prospective owners should expect a fair amount of work, and the site does not currently [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2011 under Awards, Milestones.
Tags: awards
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Amazon Updated Reamde on Kindle
Amazon replaced Kindle editions of Neal Stephenson’s Reamde on customers’ devices, issuing an e-mail which cryptically said “the version you received had Missing Content that have (sic) been corrected.” The replacement upset a number of readers, some of whom were well into the 1,000-page novel, as the mandatory update wiped out all personal highlighting, notes, [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2011 under Publishing.
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2011 British Fantasy Award Winners
The British Fantasy Society has announced the winners of 2011 British Fantasy Awards. The winners and nominees are: Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award): Demon Dance, Sam Stone (The House of Murky Depths) Apartment 16, Adam Nevill (Pan Macmillan) The Leaping, Tom Fletcher (Quercus) Pretty Little Dead Things, Gary McMahon (Angry Robot) The Silent Land, Graham Joyce [...]
Posted: October 3rd, 2011 under Awards.
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