Last month, we brought you the full shortlist for the Sunburst Awards, one of the premier awards in Canadian Speculative Fiction. Well, the wait is finally over and we can bring you the winners!
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Black Wings VI is the latest installment in PS Publishing’s gorgeous series of Lovecraftian horror collections. This book contains no fewer than twenty two brand new stories and poems from a selection of authors.
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The Parsec Awards celebrate the best in Science Fiction and Fantasy Podcasting, and they’ve just announced the finalists for the 2017 awards. There are between three and six nominees selected in each of the categories, and a total of fourteen categories, so there’s a long list below!
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Named after Dan Alderson, a NASA scientist who had a love for science fiction, the Alderson Disk is probably the most ambitious megastructure ever conceived. This theoretical structure is shaped in the form of a compact disk – but blown up to nearly incomprehensible proportions. With billions of time the surface area of Earth, the Alderson Disk is able to
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Steven Erikson is not a name associated with Science Fiction, but with Fantasy. He’s known the world over for his works of epic fantasy in the form of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, but now he is turning his attention to Hard Sci-Fi.
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The BBC have announced the return of the cult classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to Radio 4. To mark the 40th anniversary of Hitchhiker’s first being heard over the airwaves, the original cast are reuniting for a series to be known as “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase”.
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One of the newer SFF magazines on the scene, Apex magazine has announced that they are launching a print version in the earlier part of next year. Their plans are for the issues to be print on demand only, and will range from $6 – $8 depending on the size of the issue.
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The Sputnik Award has announced the winner of the 2015/16 to, well, near-deafening silence. Another reaction to the “infiltration” of the Hugo Awards nomination process, the Sputnik Awards were founded by Jo Lindsay Walton and announced in a guest editorial in Interzone back in July last year.
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Stassi is a ‘runner’ – essentially a thief that travels to the past and acquires goodies the affluent in her present desire. The story is primarily set in 1925 France where she and a partner have been sent to obtain an unpublished manuscript. They must infiltrate the author’s social circles by drinking at parties and attending plays until they gain
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After 8 years of their famous Sci-Fi Weekender, Chic festivals have expanded with the launch of their sister-event, SFW in the City. Launched this past weekend at the O2 arena in Sheffield, Zealot Script was fortunate enough to be in attendance at the event.
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