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...
In the presentation of James Gunn's Grant Master Award at SFWA's Nebula Banquet, former student Thomas Seay read this letter of congratulations from Representatives Nancy Boyda and Dennis Moore...
Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Hall of Fame inducted the four members of its 2007 class. This is the first year that more of the inductees are real than are science fictional. They include...
The schedule for SFWA's mass signing during the Nebula Awards weekend has been set. More than 30 authors will be available during a three-hour period on...
New York City's first UFO Festival, subtitled "The Culture of Contact (1947-2007)" will be held in late June. Program items include films, discussions, performances, art shows...
Author (and Vietnam War veteran) Joe Haldeman appears briefly in a new documentary about returning Iraqi war veterans. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experince is currently making the rounds of festivals, and an abridged version will be broadcast...
