Speculative Literature News
Current news from SFWA, Locus Magazine, the British Science Fiction Association, and other places. (Please feel free to suggest a source for speculative literature news.)
At long, long last, SCI-FI London begins today, the winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award will be announced on Wednesday, and we have a winner for the...
On Wednesday 25th April 2012, Sharyn November (Senior Editor for Viking Children’s Books and Editorial Director of Firebird Books, visiting thanks to this last weekend’s Diana Wynne Jones memorial) will be interviewed by Professor Farah Mendlesohn (...
If you enjoyed the excerpt from the interview with Diana Wynne Jones which appeared in Vector #268, then you may be interested to know that the volume in which the full interview appears, Reflections, will...
Congratulations to all those who won the BSFA Awards for work produced in 2011!
Best Non-Fiction: The SF Encyclopedia, third edition (beta), edited by John Clute, Peter Nicholls, David Langford and Graham Sleight.
Best Artwork: Cover of...
BSFA: Meanwhile, please keep playing with the concept and post to #tbsfa. Tweetfiction has this as a home if you want to use it. Explore!
BSFA: Big thank you to all who took part in #tbsfa. Now begins reviewing the 1000s of entries 2 announce some winners around AGM time. Thank you!
BSFA: Don't forget #BSFAAWARDS ceremony today at #Eastercon. And while you wait, create something new http://t.co/0hyanoR3
BSFA: RT @adiplotti: The probe found chambers, corridors, machines... When they said Pluto wasn't a planet, they had no idea know how right th ...
BSFA: RT @sydney1118: They broke the monotone,he & she together.Centuries of one-octave speech broken by the force of their love & the power o ...
BSFA: RT @arrroberts: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Impossible to know which without opening, and ending, the Schröding ...
BSFA: RT @chriscallowjr: Time-travelling is great, my love. I get to experience our first kiss again and again and again... #TBSFA
BSFA: RT @sydney1118: Relativity. Earth just an atom, an atom just an Earth. Each entity a piece of the big picture, the big picture woven int ...
BSFA: RT @OzgeBurcakA: #TBSFA The light of dawn separated two worlds and again when they woke up they forgot each other. Only to have their he ...
BSFA: TWEETFICTION TWEETSTREAM: http://t.co/0hyanoR3 don't forget, have to have a look at #tbsfa and take part...
BSFA: RT @MThorr: He thought the machine men would rain upon him, he thought he'd find peace at last. All that came was darkness. #TBSFA
BSFA: RT @the_onlyjt: #TBSFA Ha. Just killed my grandad. That disproves THAT ol
BSFA: RT @Doffryn: Chapter one. Line by line, the wall of reality was erased. He just wasn't happy with his work. A perfectionist at heart. Ch ...
BSFA: @relwordd thank you!
BSFA: .@jtvancouver @GenesisFan8 hope this helps: http://t.co/0hyanoR3 then have a go!
BSFA: @1_top_bird @CogM hope this helps, have a look here..http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-news/tweetfiction-tweetstream-tbsfa/ then have a go!
BSFA: RT @MThorr: Ships. As far as scanners could scan. All here to witness the dying breaths of an ancient being. A being man once called hom ...
BSFA: RT @mentalmosaic: RT @RobThorpe1 They looked like us.Sounded like us.They hoped & dreamed & feared like us.But for some that wasn't enou ...
BSFA: RT @gmurraystuff2: It was found that hair recorded thought & memory on its way out, and a strand from every head made up the Godwig in t ...
BSFA: RT @benjijumping: Ben had a moment of hesitation before clicking. But deleting the Internet was the only solution, for the survival of m ...
BSFA: RT @TwoDots: "The past is the new future" he managed to yell, before the womb consumed him #TBSFA
BSFA: @eloisestargazer hopefully this will explain all:http://t.co/0hyanoR3 have a go!
BSFA: RT @MindingMusic: Tripping on the strings of theory, she landed face first in the universe she was trying to avoid by running. #TBSFA
BSFA: RT @BarqMulch: #TBSFA He pulled the thread, which was not actually of the rug but from the floor. For years he pulled, until the Earth c ...
BSFA: RT @CharlieAlcock: As his fingers danced across the keys, the notes breathed, sang, and lingered in the air before dissipating like clou ...
BSFA: RT @Juniper_Blue: Gen strove to build her future arms, her soon-to-be-needed eyes. If time thought it could win by passing, it had anoth ...
BSFA: RT @wishyfishyrox: #TBSFA One spark. Just one spark of fire. It's amazing how much damage just one spark can do. BOOM. Just like that. P ...
BSFA: RT @Lucifal: Flames spattered from his dragon's nose as Benson dismounted the blue. "Sweaney," he sneared, flashing the warrant. "You're ...
BSFA: @wishyfishyrox @CharlieAlcock hopefully this can help: http://t.co/0hyanoR3
BSFA: RT @Lunik_the_bard: To do: 8:00 Banking; 8:30 Coffee run for the ghouls; 11:00 Dentist appt; 13:30 Pick up the car; 15:00 Ascension; New ...
The 2012 BSFA Lecture at Eastercon will be given by Dr Marc Morris, and is entitled ‘Regime Change in England, 1066′. It draws on his recently-published book The Norman Conquest. The lecture will be given at 2.30 on...
I started Gwyneth Jones’ Spirit at the wrong time, or at least in the wrong headspace. The plot was a Lego patchwork of interlinked episodes, and it didn’t seem to have enough momentum to take me much of anywhere plot-wise, even as it spanned a barely-known universe in its...
If you’re not attending Eastercon this year, then today, Monday 2 April, is the last day to vote on the BSFA Awards, by email or online form...
If entrants into the 2012 Guess-the-Clarke Award shortlist contest were voters, only half of the actual...
With the BSFA Awards imminent (Olympus, Eastercon 2012, registration closes at 6 pm TODAY/Tuesday) we have arranged for a panel at the monthly London meeting to discuss this year’s nominations. This...
The Waiting, Part I, is over, and this year’s Clarke Award shortlist is out. (Since it was released all of twelve hours ago, many or most of you reading this are already well-aware that it’s out.)
There...
For the first time ever, so far as anyone I’ve talked to can remember, Eastercon is due to sell out before the convention. This means there will be no memberships whatsoever, whether for the weekend or day passes, available at the convention itself...
BSFA: Vector 270, Focus 58 and BSFA Awards booklet 2011...oh my http://t.co/V6to2hTY
BSFA: Can you write good SF in 140 characters? We are running a Tweet Fiction competition at Eastercon 2012 http://t.co/0hyanoR3
BSFA: @chbidmead if you have any concerns you can email the administrator at tweetfiction@bsfa.co.uk who I am sure will be happy to help clarify.
Bompas & Parr are a fabulous London-based jelly first.
That description doesn’t begin to do them justice. I first encountered them setting a foot-tall replica in jelly of St Paul’s cathedral on fire in memory of the Great Fire...
In the next issue of Vector, #270, columnist Terry Martin (of Murky Depths) writes,
When I recently asked one of our prolific comic writers if he was enjoying these columns he answered that I should be giving the mainstream titles, such as those published by Vertigo...
BSFA: @PJMahon I am working on it. A few teething problems. Del.
BSFA: Good to see Amazon making a feature of the BSFA Award Shortlist: http://t.co/IKHh1k4Z
It’s been an exciting week, with the guesses coming in as to what will be on this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award shortlist.
In posting her guesses to her blog as to what books might be on that shortlist, Nina Allan wrote,
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This contest is now CLOSED. Please check back in late March to find out what the actual shortlist is and which entry has won the contest.
