Voice Actor Walter Edmiston Dies
Actor Walker Edmiston (1926-2007) appeared in Spider-Man and Star Trek, and was an elf selling cookies.
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Spectrum Art Award Winners
The fourteenth annual Spectrum art award winners have been announced. They will be appearing in the annual anthology, which will be published in October.
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Man on Mars… in 1965?
Dr. Freeman Dyson will be talking about a method by which people could have landed on Mars in the 1960s, drawing on his work on Project Orion.
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Preview of Documentary Saving Hubble
The New York Space Society presents previews of the upcoming documentary film Saving Hubble, followed by a viewing party for the total lunar eclipse, all on 3 March.
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Anna Paquin will be Sookie Stackhouse on tv
Anna Paquin has been cast as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series based on Charlaine Harris' series of southern vampire novels.
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Marvel Sales Up in 2006
Marvel sales increased in 2006, due mostly to trade paperbacks and hardcovers.
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Octavia E. Butler Tribute in Seattle, Washington
An Octavia E. Butler tribute reading will be held at the Seattle Public Library on 1 March.
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Clarion West Application Deadline Approaching
Clarion West—an intensive six-week workshop for writers of short science fiction, fantasy, and horror—will be held 17 June-27 July in Seattle, Washington. The application deadline is 1 April.
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New Charlee Jacob Title Available for Pre-Order
Charlee Jacob's soon-to-be-released Still can be ordered in signed, limited editions.
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SFWA’s Final Nebula Award Ballot
SFWA has just released the final ballot for this year's Nebula Awards. The most-nominated stories in the categories of Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Script, and Children's Novel will be voted on by the writers to determine the winners.
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Film artist Peter Ellenshaw dies
Matte artist Peter Ellenshaw (1913-2007) worked on many Disney films.
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Subterranean Moves On-line
Subterranean magazine is moving to a free, on-line format.
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Four Oscars Go to Genre Films
Four Academy Awards went to genre films. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won one, and Pan's Labyrinth won three.
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French writer Patrice Duvic dies
Patrice Duvic (1946-2007) was an author, anthologist, critic, and interviewer.
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Mouse Guard to be a Random House trade paperback
David Petersen's first comic series, Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 will be published in hardcover by Archaia Studios Press in April, and in trade paperback by Random House's Villard Books in 2008.
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