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Colfer to write 'Hitchhiker's' sequel

Children's comedy/fantasy author Eoin Colfer has been chosen to write a sixth book in the cult favourite 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series, by the late Douglas Adams.

The most litigated short story ever?

A short story by pulp writer Cornell Woolrich that was the basis for Hitchcock's film Rear Window and which was subsequently the subject of a long-running court battle that ran until 1990, is again in...

Race and racism in fantasy fiction

This blog post from PW tackles the interesting topic of whether questions of race and racism are addressed in fantasy fiction, or hidden by 'speciesism' in sci-fi.

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RiP Thomas Disch

Science fiction author, critic, and poet Thomas M. Disch has died. Disch was a prolific author of novels and short fiction, but was also know in his later years as 'an acerbic, demandin...

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Dowling wins Shadows Award

Terry Dowling's short story ‘Toother' has won the Australian Shadows Award for best horror story of 2007. Published in Eclipse 1 (Night Shade Books), Dowling's tale of a serial ...

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Romance world in a tizz over vanity press question

Where is the line between an 'independent publisher', a 'small press', a 'subsidy press' and a 'vanity publisher'? The controversy is running hot in the world of romance authors, publishers and reader...

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Free download doesn't satisfy fans

HarperCollins US has placed Neil Gaiman's classic fantasy novel American Gods online as a free download, but genre fans aren't happy with the format and think that HC 'just don't get e-books.'...

Edgar Award finalists

The finalists for the 2008 Edgar Awards, one of the world's most prestigious awards for crime and mystery writers, have been announced. The winners will be known on 1 May.

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