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| Launch party for Fantagraphics' Newave! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s | |
| News > Other Stuff | January 27, 2010 |
 Fantagraphics Books is publishing NEWAVE! The Underground Mini Comix of the 1980s, and celebrating the publication with a party at their store in Seattle, Washington, on 30 January...
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| BOOM! Studios Open Holiday Party 2009 | |
| News > Other Stuff | December 11, 2009 |
| BOOM! Studios holiday party is once again open to all their fans and customers, and will be at Meltdown Comics & Collectibles in Los Angeles on 18 December... | |
| Wanted: correspondence with artist Jack Gaughan | |
| News > Other Stuff | October 29, 2009 |
 For a book he's writing on artist Jack Gaughan, Luis Ortiz is looking for correspondence or letters with or from him...
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| Book View Cafe celebrates Katherine Kerr's fifteenth, and final Deverry novel | |
| News > Other Stuff | October 27, 2009 |
  Book View Cafe is a focal point of the online celebrations surrounding the upcoming publication of The Silver Mage, the final volume in Katherine Kerr's 15-book Cycles of Deverry series...
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| Nickelodeon pays $60 million to become the new home of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
| News > Film & Television | October 23, 2009 |
| Nickelodeon has paid $60 million for all rights to The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and is already planning a new television series, as well as a new feature film with its corporate partner Paramount. Co-creator Peter A. Laird said... | |
| Costume contest and scream queen headline Buffalo fund-raiser | |
| News > Other Stuff | October 19, 2009 |
 Variety, the Children's Charity of Buffalo and Western New York, is hosting a costume party and contest on Saturday in Buffalo's Central Terminal starring scream queen Debbie Rochon and...
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| Profiles in History's next Hollywood memorabilia auction to include Gene Roddenberry's computer | |
| News > Other Stuff | September 21, 2009 |
  California auction house Profiles in History's upcoming "Hollywood Auction 37" includes some interesting sf-related lots, including Gene Roddenberry's Apple Macintosh computer and a 16-foot-tall Bumblebee robot from Transformers...
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| The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, in Florida, comes close to reality | |
| News > Other Stuff | September 16, 2009 |
 Universal Orlando Resort is in the home stretch of building their newest island of adventure: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The theme park will immerse visitors in the world of J.K. Rowling's books and the films based on them...
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| NYAF and Del Rey Manga open this year's festival a day early with a party | |
| News > Other Stuff | September 1, 2009 |
 Kicking off this year's New York Anime Festival will be a night-before open party celebrating Del Rey Manga's fifth anniversary and the NYAF's third year with food, drink, giveaways, and more...
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| 160 Years Late, It's Edgar Allan Poe's Funeral | |
| News > Other Stuff | August 20, 2009 |
| Baltimore is staging a series of funerary events in October, marking the 160th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death in this, the bicentennial of his birth... | |
| Frank Herbert's planets land on Titan | |
| News > Other Stuff | August 5, 2009 |
| The USGS and IAU have announced that plains on Saturn's moon, Titan, will be named after planets in the Frank Herbert's Dune books... | |
| 40 Years Ago, Men Walked on the Moon. Now We're Remembering. | |
| News > Other Stuff | July 16, 2009 |
| Several web-based events celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, and we also have an interview with Michael Collins... | |
| NASA is looking for public input for its Von Braun Collection | |
| News > Other Stuff | June 26, 2009 |
 NASA is seeking public input into a presentation of the notes and works of Werher von Braun, and offering a slew of activities to celebrate Apollo 11's 40th anniversary...
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| What if…? Steve N. Lee tried to Save the Children | |
| News > Activities | June 11, 2009 |
 A significant portion of the purchase price of every copy of Steve N. Lee's thriller What if…? goes to the charity Save the Children...
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| Unthinkable's West Coast Release Party | |
| News > Other Stuff | June 4, 2009 |
| Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles is hosting the 10 June "West Coast Release Party" for Mark Sable's Unthinkable... | |
| Crater on Mars named for Isaac Asimov | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 28, 2009 |
 Science fiction icon Isaac Asimov has had a crater on Mars named for him...
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| First non-US crew launches to ISS | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 27, 2009 |
 A crew of three, which included no US astronauts, launched for the ISS Wednesday morning, heralding the era of six-person crews permanently in space...
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| NASA's next Mars rover has a name | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 27, 2009 |
 NASA has chosen a name suggested by a12-year-old Kansas student for the next Mars rover—to be launched in 2011—after a contest with more than...
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| Nathan E. Lilly combines Thaumatrope with Convention Finder to put fiction in programs | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 20, 2009 |
| Nathan E. Lilly is offering fiction from his Thaumatrope to conventions via his Convention Finder, to fill the gaps in programs... | |
| Super Para Natural Manga Day in NYC on 17 May | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 12, 2009 |
| As part of the run-up to this September's convention, the New York Anime Festival is hosting a day of Japanese comics and animation at Kinokuniya Bookstore this Sunday... | |
| Death Note, Ai Kawashima, and cosplay celebrations in NYC | |
| News > Performances & Podcasts | April 24, 2009 |
 New York City's Kinokuniya bookstore will host a day of Death Note: L, change the WorLd events, followed by another day with Japanese pop star Ai Kawashima. Following both is the Sakura Matsuri festival in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where Japanese culture...
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| Auction of The Alleged Haunting of B—— House to benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards | |
| News > Other Stuff | April 21, 2009 |
  A charity auction to benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards is offering a first edition of the 1899 book The Alleged Haunting of B—— House, which is generally assumed to be the inspiration for Jackson's own The Haunting of Hill House...
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| ISS componenet Node 3 to be called Tranquility, despite Stephen Colbert | |
| News > Other Stuff | April 16, 2009 |
| NASA asked the public to name the newest International Space Station component, and despite a campaign by Stephen Colbert to use his name, the public and NASA chose to honor the Apollo 11 mission with the name Tranquility... | |
| Ackerman auction set: massive amounts of memorabilia on the block | |
| News > Other Stuff | April 14, 2009 |
  The Profiles in History auction of Forrest J Ackerman's collection will be 30 April and 1 May 2009. Among the hundreds of lots on the block will be these remarkable pieces...
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| Robert A. Heinlein's Colorado house is on the market | |
| News > Other Stuff | April 6, 2009 |
| Science fiction grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein designed much of his Colorado Springs home (which has since been substantially rebuilt). It is now on the market for... | |
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