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SFSignal and Book View Cafe Giveaway

SFSignal.com is giving away two copies of Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, a Book View Press anthology edited by Phyllis Irene Radford.
The ebook consists of classic and favorite science fiction stories by Book View Cafe authors, never before gathered in a single collection.
Contributors include: Vonda N. McIntyre, Brenda W. Clough, Katharine Kerr, Judith Tarr, [...]

Congratulations to Crawford Award Winner Jedediah Berry

SF Awards Watch reports that SFWA member Jedediah Berry has won the William L. Crawford Award. Congratulations!

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Now on Kindle! – Mansfield Park and Mummies

Norilana Books is proud to present a Kindle Edition of:
Mansfield Park and Mummies:
Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarianhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00359FEUYA hilarious “comedy of monsters and manners!”This stylish and clever parody of the Austen classic Manfield Park, comes complete with “scholarly” Footnotes that harangue the reader, amazing Appendices, [...]

Book View Café partners with Smashwords

(National)-Book View Café, a digital publishing cooperative for professional authors, today announced it has partnered with Smashwords to distribute Book View’s growing ebook catalog, including titles by from such well known authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Sarah Smith, Seanan McGuire and Laura Anne Gilman.
 ”Smashwords is taking a truly dynamic approach to ebooks,” [...]

Exploring Mars

SFWA member and Hugo-winner,  David D. Levine, is spending the next two weeks in a Mars Society Habitat as part of a project to study some of the very real difficulties in sending people to Mars. He promises to do a report for us when he returns, meanwhile you can follow along as he posts [...]

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Nalo Hopkinson offers mentorships in 2010

Beginning February 2010: One on One Advanced Level Fiction Writing Mentorships in the Literature of the Fantastic (fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, etc.)

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Speculative Literature Foundation Announces 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant Winner

The Speculative Literature Foundation announced today that its 2009 Gulliver Travel Research Grant has been awarded to SFWA member Caren Gussoff. The $800 grant will be used to help Gussoff to travel to western Washington State in order to research the setting of her near-future novel The King of Seattle.

Tags: Caren Gussoff, Speculative Literature Foundation

McIntyre Quartet Debuts at BookViewCafe.com

The STARFARERS quartet debuted at Book View Cafe on 20 December 2009. The four novels — Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus — will be serialized one chapter per week, and the ebook versions will be available for $4.99 each.
 The episodes will be launched on Sundays at http://www.bookviewcafe.com/ and available daily at McIntyre’s novel bookshelf:
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Vonda-N.-McIntyre/Novels/
 The Book View [...]

Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons

In the wake of her MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES, author and publisher Vera Nazarian will write NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS, another hilarious Jane Austen parody in which romantic heroine Catherine Morland must not only decrypt the mystery of the Udolpho Code but win her true love Henry Tilney, while beset by all the [...]

How to Blow Up a Planet!

Jeanne Cavelos appears in a show currently airing on the Science Channel.  SCI-FI SCIENCE:  PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE is a six-episode TV miniseries airing in December and January.  Physicist Michio Kaku hosts.  Jeanne is in the episode titled “How to Blow Up a Planet.”  The episode airs on 12/22 at 10:30 PM and at other [...]

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