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| Help NASA name the next Mars rover | |
| News > Other Stuff | March 26, 2009 |
| NASA is soliciting votes on the name of its next Mars rover, which is scheduled to launch in 2011... | |
| Help name the newest Space Station component | |
| News > Other Stuff | February 25, 2009 |
| NASA is soliciting votes for the name of Node 3, scheduled to be attached to the International Space Station late this year... | |
| Kids Valentine's Day party in Chicago celebrates launch of Tiny Titans | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | February 13, 2009 |
 Chicago's Challengers Comics is hosting a kid-friendly Valentine's Day/release party for the first trade paperback collection of Tiny Titans...
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| Forrest J Ackerman's collection to be auctioned off | |
| News > Other Stuff | February 12, 2009 |
 Los Angeles auction house Profiles in History will be auctioning off much of Forrest J Ackerman's collection of movie and sf memorabilia in late April...
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| Shirley Jackson Award fund-raiser offers unique and valuable items in a lottery | |
| News > Awards | February 5, 2009 |
| As a fund raiser for the Shirley Jackson Award, many authors and editors have donated books, manuscript critiques, Tuckerizations, and other unique items for an on-line lottery commencing 9 February... | |
| "Grasping for the Wind" is grasping for sf/f/h reviewers | |
| News > Other Stuff | January 12, 2009 |
| Author Diana Pharaoh Francis and reviewer John Ottinger III are organizing a book reviewer database... | |
| BOOM! Studios Open Holiday Party | |
| News > Other Stuff | December 9, 2008 |
 BOOM! Studios holiday party is open to all their fans and customersx, and will be at Meltdown Comics & Collectibles in Los Angeles on 17 December...
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| Le Guin donates Miyazaki figurines for Endeavour Award | |
| News > Awards | November 17, 2008 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin has donated two figurines—given to her by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki—as a fund-raiser for the Endeavour Award... | |
| Rare Buffy the Vampire Slayer collection for sale | |
| News > Other Stuff | November 12, 2008 |
| A disabled fan is selling her collection of rare and uniqure BtVS and other collectibles... | |
| Asian space race heads to the Moon | |
| News > Other Stuff | October 23, 2008 |
 India just launched its first lunar probe, becoming the third Asian nation and sixth overall to send a robot to the Moon. The $80 million mission is expected to map the surface and look for...
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| The Deadbooks Project to be film/book/series/something on the web | |
| News > Other Stuff | August 8, 2008 |
| Hasso Wuerslin's internet story will be a hybrid of a book, television series, music, and who knows what... | |
| Branson and Rutan unveil WhiteKnightTwo | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | July 29, 2008 |
| Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and Scaled Composites' Burt Rutan unveiled the carrier airplane which will be the backbone of VG's planned space tourism venture... | |
| Stephen King's "N" being serialized as a mobile phone download series | |
| News > Other Stuff | July 28, 2008 |
| Stephen King's new short story "N" is being released as a series of 25 two-minute episodes for mobile phone subscribers... | |
| Raffle to support Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series | |
| News > Contests | July 8, 2008 |
| New York City's monthly Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading Series is running a raffle with all proceeds going to support the continuing free readings... | |
| University of Kansas Libraries to sell large science fiction collection | |
| News > Other Stuff | June 30, 2008 |
| The University of Kansas Libraries will be selling off about 6,000 science fiction books in a public sale on 12 July... | |
| Entertainment Weekly judges the top 1000 of everything pop culture (since 1983) | |
| News > Other Stuff | June 26, 2008 |
| Entertainment Weekly celebrates the last 25 years of pop culture with its "new classics." Genre titles make a respectable showing in the mix... | |
| Lolita and Maid Fashion Day coming to New York City | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 30, 2008 |
| Lolita and Maid fashion are cosplay versions of the anime, manga, and general Japanese culture finding their way to the US. New York City's Kinokuniya Bookstore will be host to a full day... | |
| Scream Queen debuting with signing and beer | |
| News > Manga/Graphic Novels | May 29, 2008 |
| Brendan Hay and Nate Watson's new Boom! Studios comic, Scream Queen, will launch with a party at Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics & Collectibles... | |
| World Science Festival to celebrate science in New York City | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 23, 2008 |
| The five-day World Science Festival will have numerous lectures, panel discussions, films, and other special events, featuring dozens of scientists, artists, and entertainers... | |
| Excellent ISS viewing opportunities | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 21, 2008 |
| The International Space Station's orbit will have it in almost continuous sunlight for the next few days, making viewing from North America especially easy and rewarding... | |
| Copyright Office seeking to change method of registration | |
| News > Market Reports | May 9, 2008 |
| A proposed rule change will affect writers of short works who register them collectively... | |
| Opportunity to send your name and message into space with Kepler | |
| News > Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact | May 8, 2008 |
| NASA is soliciting names and messages to fly into space aboard its Kepler Mission, the first probe which may be able to discover Earth-like planets... | |
| Send your name to the Moon on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter | |
| News > Other Stuff | May 2, 2008 |
| NASA is offering the opportunity to include your name in a database to be flown aboard the next Moon mission... | |
| From WV to TV and Beyond: a celebration of Nelson Bond | |
| News > Exhibits | April 16, 2008 |
| Author Nelson S. Bond's life as a writer is on display in a week-long retrospective at Marshall University, leading up to the dedication of his room... | |
| NASA Science is NASA's new web site | |
| News > Other Stuff | April 11, 2008 |
| NASA's Science Mission Directorate is launching the NASA Science web site with lots of nifty information and features... | |
