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Locus Award Winners 2008 - Locus 22/06/08
Algis Budrys dies - SFWA 09/06/08
New Bond novel "Devil may Care" breaks sales record - BBC 04/06/08
Fantasy author Robert Asprin dies suddenly on May 22nd - SFWA 27/05/08
Holmes book in Oxfam shop fetches £15,500 - 22/08/05
Michael De Larrabeiti "The Borribles" author dies - Independent 14/05/08
Ansible 250 - usual great stuff - 02/05/08
Slugs on the radio. Highly recommended, A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou burrows insensibly into the science fiction short stories of SF's Golden and Silver Ages. Hosts ELISHA SESSIONS and MARK SINKER and their astounding guests return for eight weeks to this forgotten motherlode, once bedrock of the entire field.
Sidewise Award finalists for Alternate History - Sidewise Awards 28/04/08
Guillermo del Toro to direct "The Hobbit" - BBC 25/04/08
Blake's Seven poised for TV comeback - BBC 24/04/08
BSFA award winners 2007 - BSFA 2/04/08
Ansible 249 added 02/04/08
Stoker Award 2007 winners announced - HWA -31/03/08
Weird Tales presents the 85 weirdest storytellers of the past 85 years - 27/03/08
Hugo and John W Campbell award nominees - Denvention 21/03/08
Private secular funeral for A. C. Clarke - BBC 20/03/08
Arthur C Clarke dies at the grand old age of 90 in Sri Lanka - BBC 19/03/08
1st edition of The Hobbit fetches £60,000 at auction - BBC 18/03/08
Terry Pratchett donates $1m to Alzheimer's research - BBC 14/03/08
2008 Arthur C Clarke award shortlist - 10/03/08
George Romero profile on BBC - why the dead can't run - BBC 09/03/08
Ansible 248 - added 08/03/08
Gary Gygax dies at the age of 69 - BBC 05/03/08
SFWA report death of Stephen Marlowe (Milton Lesser) & Ken Slater -27/02/08
Nebula Awards final ballot - SFWA 23/02/08
Bram Stoker Awards - final ballot for works published in 2007 - SFWA 17/02/08
Tolkien estate to sue New Line Cinema - Yahoo News 13/02/08
Roy Scheider (Chief Brody inJaws) dies - BBC 11/02/08
Ansible 247 - 07/02/08
2008 Edgar Award Nominees - Mystery writers of America (03/02/08)
Sue Grafton wins Cartier Diamond dagger - CWA 03/02/08
Claude Lalumiere's best of 2007 - Locus 30/01/08
Jeff Vandermeer's best of 2007 - Locus 30/01/08
Aurealis Award winners announced - 27/01/08
2007 BSFA Awards shortlist - BSFA 23/01/08
Shirley Jackson Award - details announced - 22/01/08
SFWA announces Nebula Awards prelimanry ballot - SFWA 12/01/08
Philip K Dick Award finalists 2007 - Locus 09/01/08
Ansible 246 - 07/01/08
The Times has the 50 best British writers since 1945 - Times 07/01/08
"Flashman" author George Macdonald Fraser dies - BBC 04/01/08
David Tennant not leaving Dr Who - confused? - BBC 19/12/07
Peter Jackson to make Hobbit Films - BBC 18/12/07
Arthur C Clarke's 90th birthday wishes - Guardian & You Tube - 17/12/07
David Tennant may be leaving Dr Who - BBC 15/12/07
Captain Kidd's treasure ship found off Domican Republic - Independent 15/12/07
Hammer Horror set to return in 2008 on "My Space" - BBC 13/12/07
Handwritten J K Rowling book sells for £2M - BBC 13/12/07
Terry Pratchett has rare form of Alzheimer's Disease - BBC 12/12/07
Amazing find of a dinosaur "mummy" in North Dakota - BBC 05/12/07
Gunpowder plot book, bound in human skin sold - BBC 05/12/07
Yeti prints found on the slopes of Everest - BBC 05/12/07

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Regular - Some of the sites that interest us. Perhaps you would like to suggest more?

1st Encounters, an online gallery of artwork that will amuse, amaze and sometimes terrify.
About-arts.com - directory of literature related websites and discussion groups
The Forrest Ackerman Web Site - just awesome
The Alien Online is NOW UKSF Book News - sf news, reviews etc. Well worth a look. Rejigged and looking damn good
Ansible - an award winning fanzine
Arthurian Legend - fully-researched site which examines Arthurian literature, especially Thomas Malory's book "Le Morte d'Arthur"
Art Promote.Com - Fantasy and Sci-Fi Stories and Poems. Read science fiction and fantasy short stories and poems online.
BBC - film review site - up to date reviews on all UK film releases
The Blue Rectangle - BlueRectangle.com offers video book reviews (book reviews on video).Concise and fascinating insights into a wide variety of books, by a wide
variety of book reviewers.
Book and magazine Collector - Book and Magazine Collector has been serving the needs of book collectors and dealers since 1984. Written by leading experts and beautifully illustrated, BMC covers every aspect of collecting literature and non fiction from 17th century to the present day
BookMunch - a book review and author interview site.
Book 'n Bytes - a science fiction fantasy and mystery review site - smashing.
The BSFA- a neat place for research
The British Fantasy Society - a favourite of ours.
Concatenation - sf review site run by scientists as featured on Radio 4 book club
The Crime Writers Association - neat site with news and reviews
Crime and Mystery Fiction Journal - wonderful site packed with details about crime and mystery fiction
Cuyler Brooks website - it has his own review zine It Goes on the Shelf - great
Dark Tales - horror and dark fiction prozine, recommended by all of us at Fantastic HQ. Dead Men Tell no Tales - good source for books about pirates
The Dinosaur Society Home Page - for fossil hunters and Jurassic Park fans
The Edge - SF magazine edited by Dave Clark -UK magazine site
Fantastic Fiction - It has detailed lists of all the books written by each author in chronological order and by sets. Fantastic for chasing down those series where Amazon fails to give details on which series (let alone which part of the series) a book is in!
Fortean Times - still a cracking area
Galaxiki is a virtual galaxy with over a million stars and solar systems
The Golden Age web-site - dedicated to sf of the 1920's - 40's
Gorelets - a horror webzine, liked the look of this one a lot!
Great SF & Fantasy works. SF and Fantasy - a critical list with discussions, very nice too!
Historical Novel Society- a useful guide to the genre
Horror writer's association - another useful site, Stoker award winner listed
InfoHEAVEN Digital Books: For digital books on Business Opportunities, Marketing Strategies, Personal Issues, Health Issues, Computers, Investing, Sports, Seasonal Items, and even fun stuff like Magic Tricks
The Internet Review of Science Ficition - looks good, a new one for us. It's free until June 2004.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA)The IAFA is a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts
Interzone - the leading UK SF magazine
Japanese SF links page - for everything thats best in Japanese SF
Locus - one of the very best SF and Fantasy newszines
The Magical World of Horses. Horse art gallery and short stories by Suzana Stojanovic Suza, an equine artist and a writer
Meet the Author - see and hear your favourite author talking about their books - cracking idea.
Mslexia is a quarterly magazine for women writers with 12,000 UK readers
Mystery Scene - a great look at crime fiction.
Mystery Writers of America - another useful resource site
North West SF Resources - good research site
Notes from the Undergound. A free creative writing newspaper, aimed at bridging the gap between niche literary journals and existing free newspapers that have a low quality of editorial content. They publish short stories, cartoons and original illustrations as well as arts based non-fiction.
The One Ring - Lord of the Rings movies and rumours
Pigasus Press web site - we publish genre fiction in Premonitions magazine, also info for writers in small press newsletter "Dragon's Breath" plus VHS and DVD reviews in webzine "Video Vista".
Planet of the Gods.com - This could have been your typical good versus evil fantasy novel but it goes way deeper. If you are a Lord of the Rings or Star Wars fan... You'll become a Planet of the Gods fan overnight.
Quantum Muse - Posting the finest in sci-fi, fantasy and alternative writing and artwork. For free. In our sober moments...
Rambles - a cultural arts magazine, sections on genre books, films etc.
Scifi Dimensions - a pretty good news, reviews site, well worth a look into.
The SF Foundation - a nice searchable catalogue.
SciFan: Books and links for the Science Fiction fan - good site to visit
Scifantastic - new UK magazine
The SF Site - a new one to me and well worth a visit
Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame - just opened in Seattle
Slugs on the radio. Highly recommended ,A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou burrows insensibly into the science fiction short stories of SF's Golden and Silver Ages. Hosts ELISHA SESSIONS and MARK SINKER and their astounding guests return for eight weeks to this forgotten motherlode, once bedrock of the entire field.Download the podcasts at the site.
The SFWA - another good news site
SF Crowsnest - a marvellous website - packed with info and reviews.
The SF Hub - University of Liverpool web site for SF research
SF Weekly - another new one and packed with the latest gossip & news
TTAlkback, the *3rdAlternative* message board. for chat about any general topics or talk direct to individual authors such as M John Harrison, Michael Moorcock, Ian Rankin, Muriel Gray, Christopher Priest, Graham Joyce, China Mieville, Michael Marshall Smith, Colin Greenland and many others.
The Top 100 SF Books - a great place to look
Twilight Tales - a genre fiction organization that produces a live, weekly fiction show; offers fiction on the web and has their own line of anthologies and collections.
Yard Dog Press - publishers of the fiction you want to read.
The Zone - science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery website - with critical articles, author/celebrity interviews and profiles, incisive media coverage of books, cinema, video, DVD, genre TV and lots more.