The 2010 Stoker Award winners have been announced. Superior Achievement in a Novel A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (DoubleDay) Horns, Joe Hill (William Morrow) Rot and Ruin, Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster) Dead Love, Linda Watanabe McFerrin (Stone Bridge Press) Apocalypse of the Dead, Joe McKinney (Pinnacle) Dweller, Jeff Strand (Leisure/Dark Regions Press) Superior Achievement [...]

Chicon 7 won their bid to host the 2012 Worldcon in voting held at Aussicon 4. The convention will be held August 30-September 3, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago IL. Mike Resnick will be Author Guest of Honor; Rowena Morrill will be Artist Guest of Honor; Story Musgrave will be Astronaut Guest of [...]

Gaming-related publisher Black Library has announced a new downloadable short fiction magazine, Hammer and Bolter, to launch in October as part of their new e-book publishing initiative. Each issue will sell for £2.50, and the debut issue will feature a previously-unpublished Warhammer story by John Brunner, who died in 1995. Other authors contributing work to [...]

A badly burned body presumed to be that of author Fergus Gwynplaine MacIntyre was found June 25, 2010 in Brooklyn NY. He apparently committed suicide by setting fire to his apartment. Andrew Porter has details. (Update: New York police have confirmed that the body was MacIntyre’s.) His exact age (and many other biographical details) are [...]

Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago, 87, died Friday June 18, 2010, at home on the island of Lanzarote in the Spanish Canary Islands, after a long illness. Saramago received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998; he was the first Portuguese-language author to receive this honor. Many of his works dealt with fantastic themes, [...]