Kansas State University acquired the collection of long-time collector David J. Williams III last year, and dedicated it this week, with cermonies that included...
As we said in this article announcing the winners of this year's World Fantasy Awards, Diana Wynne Jones's speech accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award, as read by Sharyn November, was entertaining and enlightening. She's finally posted the speech for all to read, and we recommend that you click this link and read it for yourself.
Hour of the Wolf host Jim Freund is running a marathon this Friday night, all science fiction and fantasy on WBAI, featuring Samuel R. Delany, Lucius Shepard, and...
Editor Ellen Datlow will be hosting a special, informal reading from her new anthology, Inferno, at this weekend's World Fantasy Convention. On Saturday 3 November at 2PM, Datlow will be joined by authors Laird Barron, Elizabeth Bear, Jeffrey Ford, and John Grant in Suite 556.
Patrick Stewart has the lead role in Rupert Goold's production of Macbeth, which is currently playing to sold-out audiences in London. It will be moving to New York City early in 2008...
New York City's Impetuous Theater Group is producing 12th Night of the Living Dead, an adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy as if it were written by George Romero...
Michael Belfiore will be speaking about the commercialization and privatization of space to the National Space Society's New York City chapter on 6 October...
Radio program Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction will soon feature actress Anita LaSelva, author John Kenneth Muir, and composer Joel Goldsmith...
Actress Lois Kagan Mingus has joined the cast of Samuel Delany's The Star Pit in the role of Alegra for the fortieth anniversary performance at the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading...
Author/librarian Fred Lerner is traveling to Denmark to lecture at the Royal Library in Copenhagen and the Royal School of Library and Information Science...
Long Island-based artist Joe Liotta will be giving a free talk entitled "Japanese Manga vs. American Comic Books" on 4 September at 7PM at the East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front St, East Meadow (Long Island), New York 11554.
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...
The monthly science fiction reading series at New York's South Street Seaport will play host to a 40th anniversary celebration of the broadcast of Samuel R. Delany's "The Star Pit" this October...
The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art has Monday evening talks and panel discussions. Upcoming are "The Changing Image of Black Women in Comics and Graphic Novels" and "Metro Anime: a Brief HIstory of Anime Violence." All events are free...
Tor Books will begin producing podcasts during WorldCon. The shows from Japan will be hosted by Tom Doherty and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and available for downloading...
Xfire is hosting a week-long series of chats with big-name authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Spider Robinson, Charles Stross...