In science fiction and fantasy literature news, the 2016 Hugo Awards winners were announced at MidAmericon II this past weekend.

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Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, H.P. LovecraftToday would have been H.P. Lovecraft's 126th birthday. So I thought that I would acknowledge this writer's influences on me here today, and just offer up another comment or two ( Read more... )

I was paying attention last night to the Canadian Media Guild's news feed, when this news was dropped.

CBC Announces Plans to Sell Off all Buildings in the Midst of Election CampaignWell, well... I guess a lot of folks saw this coming, as the plans for cutting the federal share of the CBC's annual budgets have been in the works for a long time. ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening, the Hugo and John Campbell Awards winners were announced at Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention, being held in Spokane, Washington.

2015 Hugo and Campbell Awards WinnersAs most folks who keep up with science fiction and the Hugo Awards knows, there's been quite a kerfuffle about this year's Hugo Awards (for an ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, H.P. LovecraftToday would have been H.P. Lovecraft's 125th birthday. So I thought that I would acknowledge this writer's influences on me here today, and just offer up another comment or two ( Read more... )

Based on a recent book (The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milan) and some trends in dinosaur media, Brian Switek considers which are the best dinosaurs to wage war.

One, Two, Three, Four... I Declare a Dino War!

Over on the SciFiandTVTalk website, there's a new interview with Andrew-Lee Potts (better known as Connor Temple from the Primeval series, where he shed some light on the new Primeval: New World series and his time filming there, as well as discussing some aspects of the UK Primeval series as well. Good interview.

Andrew-Lee Potts - The Best of ( Read more... )