NASA is currently acceptingi applications for its Astronaut Candidate Class of 2009. Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and three years experience, as well as...
Jane Yolen is the Honorary Ambassador for K is for Kids, an exhibition on early methods of teaching the ABCs, which will be at the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate in...
NW Media Arts and Seattle's Richard Hugo House present three Sundays of fantastic fiction writing workshops—followed by three Mondays of author readings and signings—this Autumn...
Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee have teamed up to launch Science Fiction Awards Watch, which they hope will be the source for information about and discussion/debate of, well...
The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England, is sponsoring a world-record breaking attempt to gather the most people dressed as Daleks, and is looking for participants...
Aqueduct Press will be publishing The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 2, expanding on some of the discussions at the convention. Editors L. Timmel Duchamp and Eileen Gunn are looking for...
Harry Potter Place is now open in New York City, on Mercer Street between Prince and Spring Streets. The festivities there will run through tonight's midnight release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...
The Nielsen Company has compiled a large report on the Harry Potter series's impact on the entertainment industry, breaking it down by category and country. We've excerpted the 11-page report here, and provide a link to the complete document...
Author Karl Schroeder is looking for role-playing gamers who are creating scenarios based on his world "Virga." Not to stop them, but because he wants to play...
Universal Studios Theme Parks will have, in the flesh, horror movie dark stars Freddy Krueger, Jason, and Leatherface, at their Halloween Horror Nights. They'll be using the characters and their fillms as the themes for events on about 30 nights during October.
Dinner with Joss Whedon during the San Diego Comic Con is the prize for five deep-pocketed donors who win the auction on Ebay. There are also items up for auction for fans who can't be in San Diego...
Biographer Charles J. Shields continues work on And So It Goes, the biography of Kurt Vonnegut he was writing at the time of Vonnegut's death. He is looking for people who had memorable encounter with Vonnegut...
J.K. Rowling will visit three US cities in October, doing three reading/talk events for schoolchildren, and a fourth for any Harry Potter fan who wins a sweepstakes sponsored by Scholastic...
Author J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Universal Orlando Resort have jointly announced that they'll be opening "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter" in...
The text of Congressman Charles B. Rangel's proclamation honoring Tor Books Publisher Tom Doherty, as presented the this year's Nebula Awards Banquet...
