With our thanks to the great people at Transworld, sffworld has been given permission to post the first few pages of Ian Cameron Esslemont’s…

  1) Awards season keeps coming: A) Australian Horror Writers Association’s 2009 Australian Shadows Award Winners: Long Fiction: Slights by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)…

SFFWorld News – 4/6/2010 1) Wil Wheaton sightings: Actor and SFF pundit Wil Wheaton will be returning to the television series The Big Bang…

SFFWorld News – 3/30/2010 1) Warner Brothers Studios will be tackling the werewolf oeuvre with a new film, The Girl With the Red Riding…

    SFFWorld News – 2/23/10   1) Vin Diesel will return as night-vision SF tough guy Riddick in the third movie of the…

SFFWorld News – 2/10/10 1) Actor/director Bruce Campbell, currently on cable show Burn Notice, is making a sequel to his satiric cult film My…

SFFWorld News – 1/19/10 1) Actor Stuart Townsend has parted ways with Marvel Films’ adaptation of Thor. The movie features the popular Marvel superhero…

SFFWorld News – 1/6/2010: 1) U.S. t.v. series Smallville, about Superman’s early days, will spin off a t.v. movie on The CW network, Smallville:…

Robert Holdstock, 1948-2009. SFFWorld is sad to report on the death of Robert Holdstock, aged 61. Robert died at 4am in the morning of…

SFFWorld News – 11/16/09   1) World Fantasy Awards 2009: Life Achievement Awards: Ellen AsherJane Yolen Novel (tie): The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow)Tender…

  SFFWorld News – 10/31/09   1) Stephenie Meyer sold film rights to her best-selling science fiction novel The Host to producers Nick Wechsler…

Having enchanted UK audiences of over 6.2 million in its inaugural series, Merlin has returned for its second series on BBC One. (And I…

Orbit Books – News Jane True #1 Out in November Nicole Peeler’s debut novel TEMPEST RISING is out next month, but you can read…

Orbit Books – News Gail Carriger’s debut novel SOULLESS (the first volume in The Parasol Protectorate) went on sale last week. Readers have been…

Orbit Books – News It Somehow Always Involved an Assassin with Extraordinary Powers And A Love of Espressos Time’s Lev Grossman has posted his…

Orbit Books – News K.J. says: The Company started with an old friend of mine. He’s nothing like General Kunessin, but he used to have…

Random House – New Releases Beauty Written by Sheri S. Tepper eBook, 496 pages | Spectra | Fiction – Science Fiction | $7.99 |…

Random House – New Releases Bellwether Written by Connie Willis eBook, 256 pages | Spectra | Fiction – Science Fiction | $7.99 | October…

Random House – New Releases The Black Raven Book Two of the Dragon MageWritten by Katharine Kerr eBook, 432 pages | Spectra | Fiction…

Random House – New Releases The Bone Doll’s Twin Written by Lynn Flewelling eBook, 544 pages | Spectra | Fiction – Fantasy – Epic…