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Locus Awards 2013 Ballot Announced

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:54:13 +0000

From Boing Boing comes news of this year’s Locus nominees, shared there because one of its editors, Cory Doctorow, is nominated. I am not a huge SF reader, so most of these have stayed off my radar. But if you go for that stuff, enjoy this list of good books! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL • The Hydrogen [...]

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Ray Bradbury’s books are finally going digital

Susan Lulgjuraj — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:15:02 +0000

For many years, author Ray Bradbury didn’t want his books digitized. But he finally relented before his death in 2011, and allowed arguably his most famous book, Fahrenheit 451, to become an e-book. But fans of Bradbury—old and those yet to be made—will be happy to hear that several of his books will in fact [...]

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Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey (Review)

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:21:18 +0000

We’ve all heard by now about the success of the latest e-book indie darling, Hugh Howey—when his self-published Kindle series became a Kindle best-seller, he made a deal with the big publishers—but in a ground-breaking twist, the deal included only the print rights, and Howey continues to sell the e-books himself. Howey is also notoriously anti-DRM and I dig [...]

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Games Workshop, self-publishing author battle over ‘space marines’

Chris Meadows — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:19:43 +0000

Self-publishing has a lot of advantages and just as many countervailing drawbacks. The biggest advantage is, of course, you get to be your own boss and can publish whatever you want to, without some publisher taking a cut of the money. But the dark side of this freedom is that it can leave you vulnerable [...]

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Book Review: Tears in Rain by Rosa Montero

Juli Monroe — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:00:32 +0000

Sometimes a book comes along that is so good you know it’ll stay with you forever. Tears in Rain is one of those books for me. I found it by accident. It showed up on my Kindle with Special Offers earlier this month. I saw it was about replicants and was Prime Lending eligible. I [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke Novels Now Available in E-Book Form

Aggregated Content — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:46:45 +0000

By Matthew Marchesano | for Technology Tell One of the most significant figures in the world of science fiction, writer Arthur C. Clarke, has been digitized. Thirty-five titles by Clarke, including the 2001: A Space Odyssey, will be released in digital format for the first time in the U.S. The availability comes with an announcement made by [...]

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Singularity & Co. Opens a Bookshop in Brooklyn

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:35:23 +0000

Back in March, we brought you the story of Singularity & Co., a four-person team obsessed with obscure science fiction novels, and “aimed at purchasing [the] publishing rights to out-of-print classic SF titles, scanning them, and publishing them as e-books,” as former TeleRead reporter Chris Meadows wrote. The group has since opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Brooklyn’s [...]

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SF legend Ray Bradbury passes away, leaving a world that seemed to confirm his Fahrenheit 451 fears

Chris Meadows — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:00:35 +0000

As anyone who reads news or social media on the web may have noticed, Ray Bradbury has passed away at the age of 91. Bradbury was a truly great writer, and a great visionary, though I tended not to enjoy his work as much as other writers—too much of it had downer themes and endings. [...]

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ConQuesT Interview: Sam’s Dot Publishing managing editor Tyree Campbell

Chris Meadows — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:25:23 +0000

While perusing the ConQuesT dealer room, I stopped to talk to Tyree Campbell, managing editor of small press publisher Sam’s Dot Publishing. He was kind enough to consent to a five-minute interview, in which he discussed how his small press operates: Me: How long has Sam’s Dot Publishing been in operation? Tyree Campbell: As Sam’s [...]

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The miracle of self-publishing

Chris Meadows — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:49:20 +0000

We live in an age of miracles. When you look at the current state of technology, of medicine, of transportation, that’s true in general (even if few people realize it), but it’s particularly true when it comes to publishing. I’ve lately been working my way through Barry Malzberg’s Engines of the Night, a collection of [...]

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Philippine Speculative Fiction Series Joins Flipside’s Spec Fic eBook Lineup

Paul Biba — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:52:20 +0000

From the press release: The first volume of the anthology Philippine Speculative Fiction, which was first released in 2005 and paved the way for a unique literary movement in the Philippines, is now available as an eBook on Amazon and Flipreads. Series editor Dean Francis Alfar has partnered with Flipside Publishing to make the first [...]

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How is the Kindle affecting science fiction books?

Chris Meadows — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:44:07 +0000

Blogger James W. Harris has been thinking about the effects the Kindle is having on the science fiction genre. Looking at Amazon’s Top 100 lists for paid and free e-books in the SF genre, he notices many unknown, usually self-published, authors grabbing up position on both lists, and a lot of books by classic SF [...]

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Cli-fi ebook to launch on Earth Day in April, by Dan Bloom

a TeleRead Contributor — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:13:53 +0000

Science fiction in literature and movies has a long history and dates way back. The great Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) wrote the 1961 sci-fi novel ”Solaris” that was later turned into a film in 1972 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and again in 2002 in a new Hollywood remake by Steven Soderbergh, starring George [...]

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Pay-what-you-want model works for convention room parties, Panera location; could it work for e-books?

Chris Meadows — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:29:12 +0000

In case you’re wondering why you haven’t heard from me much over the last few days, part of the reason is that this weekend is the weekend of VisionCon, the yearly science fiction/fantasy and gaming convention in Springfield, Missouri, which has been going on for some twenty years now. Over the con, I met urban [...]

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E-Reads acquires Brian Aldiss backlist

Paul Biba — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:07:16 +0000

From the press release: E-Reads, a leading independent e-book publisher and a powerhouse in fantasy and science fiction, has acquired US e-book and print rights to fifteen titles by British science fiction Grandmaster Brian Aldiss, winner of two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Included in the trove are [...]

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