Dreadnought by Cherie Priest has won the 13th Endeavour Award. The finalists were: Dreadnought, Cherie Priest (Tor) A Cup of Normal, Devon Monk (Fairwood) The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia McKillip (Ace) Black Prism, Brent Weeks (Orbit US) Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs (Ace) The Endeavour Award is given to a novel or single-author collection written by [...]

Les Daniels, 68, died November 5, 2011 of a heart attack in Providence RI. Daniels was best known as a comics historian and authored many books on the subject, most famously Comix: A History of the Comic Book in America (1971) and Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media (1975). He [...]

John Joseph Adams, editor of Fantasy and Lightspeed, has purchased both magazines from Prime books. Adams will become the official publisher in January 2012. He took over as editor for Fantasy magazine earlier this year, and has edited Lightspeed since its June 2010 debut. Fantasy magazine was established in 2005, and has been nominated for the [...]

Nominations for the 2012 Canegie Medal have been announced. Science fiction and fantasy related works on this year’s list include: My Name is Mina, David Almond (Hodder) Flip, Martin Bedford (Walker) Boys Don’t Cry, Malorie Blackman (Doubleday) Buried Thunder, Tim Bowler (Oxford Children’s) Noah Barleywater Runs Away, John Boyne (David Fickling) Tyme’s End, B.R. Collins [...]

Acting chair Graham Joyce announced an Extraordinary General Meeting of the British Fantasy Society to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, December 9, 2011 at the Mug House near London Bridge. The meeting will consider a proposal to reorganize the BFS Awards and will elect new officers to the BFS Committee. More information, including [...]

For the third time in nearly three years, Realms of Fantasy has announced that it will cease publication. The current owners, William and Kim Gilchrist of Damnation Books LLC, have announced the October 2011 issue will be the last. The Gilchrists explained in a statement that the magazine has been losing money, and that they will [...]