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Sci-fi and fantasy

• Children’s authors writing Doctor Who stories

  The British sci-fi show Doctor Who is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, Puffin — in partnership with BBC Worldwide — will publish 11 short stories about the… Read more »

• Beam me up, Ahab

  It’s kind of amazing that this hasn’t been done before: a sci fi adaptation of Moby Dick is in the works, under the title Mobius. It’s described as a ‘psychological… Read more »

• “Geeks in love” wed in Central Park

  Jean-Paul Beaubier, also known as the X-Man Northstar, and his long-time boyfriend Kyle Jinadu married last Wednesday in a lavish ceremony in New York City’s Central Park. X-Men, Avengers, Kyle’s… Read more »

• Terry Pratchett wins book award, booze, pig

  Earlier this week, prolific fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett won the UK’s only prize for comic writing, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. In addition to the prestige and recognition that… Read more »

• VIDEO: Jean-Christophe Valtat discusses Jules Verne at the Watch City Steampunk Festival

  Aurorarama author Jean-Christophe Valtat was a guest of honor at not one but two steampunk festivals over the last nine days. Jules Verne would be so jealous. Over the next… Read more »

• A Travel Guide to New Venice (Part I)

  To our reader yet unfamiliar with New Venice, beyond a few unclear and mysterious dreams, it has been decided that a few words of introduction might not prove quite useless.… Read more »

• David Graeber’s Debt to science fiction

  As great books sometimes do, Debt, the First 5,000 Years has struck a chord with an unexpected audience: science fiction readers. Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow reiterates the notions submitted… 3 / Read more »

• Valtat’s Steampunk Emporium, or the return of Aurorarama

  We’re less than a month away from the paperback release of Jean-Christophe Valtat’s cult hit, the steampunk epic Aurorarama. Published in hardcover in the fall of 2010, Aurorarama is the… Read more »

• “Anyone who thinks Amazon is in this to help authors is a fool”

  Schlock writer Jim C. Hines, in a commentary on his website, notes, “A certain champion of self-publishing recently decried all of the ‘whiny bitches’ complaining about Amazon, and argued how Amazon… 1 / Read more »

• Longform.org’s Editors Reveal What They’ve Been Reading

  We’ve been a fan of Longform.org for many months now, and decided to ask the editors there what they’ve been reading lately that gave them pause. Aaron Lammer and Max… Read more »