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Don’t miss Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere on BBC Radio 4 next month
I love that the radio has never really been in – or gone out of – fashion. It just is, seems to have always been and has been a comforting presence throughout many of our lives. Many will think of the radio as a place where music is played but for others like me it [...]
Fantasy news round-up: September 10, 2012
A round up of fantasy and bookish news from around the world… Neil Gaiman to write another Doctor Who episode While accepting his Hugo Award for The Doctor’s Wife this weekend Neil Gaiman informally announced that he was writing another episode of Doctor Who. The Doctor’s Wife gave the TARDIS a chance to chat with [...]
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book to be adapted for the big screen
The rights to Newberry Award-winning and Fantasy Book Review favourite The Graveyard Book have been acquired by Disney. It has also been reported that Henry Selick (Coraline, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) has been offered the director’s chair and that the adaptation will likely feature the stop-motion animation technique. Selick joined [...]
The World Book Night top 100 books to read, give and share
The folks over at World Book Night – www.worldbooknight.org – asked readers to nominate the 10 books they most love to read, give and share. Over 6,000 people nominated more than 8,000 titles and the top 100 are displayed below. I am pleased to say that I have read 22 of the listed titles and [...]
Harlan Ellison to be inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
World-renowned author Harlan Ellison is to be inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, recognizing a career that has spanned more than five decades in which he’s made contributions to literature, television and film. He will be honoured at the Hall of Fame event in Seattle tomorrow. Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland in [...]
Is American Gods Coming to HBO?
HBO premiered ‘Game of Thrones’ last night and it won’t be long until we see how well or not it has done. But news from the end of last week suggests that there might be a new “thing” to look forward to; an American Gods series. American Gods, written by Neil Gaiman, is definitely one [...]
The SFcrowsnest.com top 100 science fiction and fantasy books for 2010
SFcrowsnest.com, the hugely respected online fantasy and science fiction publication, has published its chart for the Top 100 fantasy, science fiction and horror books (as voted for by the readers) of the last year. It is of course the fantasy titles that stand out for us and we would like to lay further praise on [...]
Neil Gaiman on The Simpsons
Neil Gaiman, the bestselling author of titles like Coraline, American Gods, the Sandman comic series, and much more, will be appearing on The Simpsons as himself. The episode is entitle ‘The Book Job’ and will air in a year or so. According to Gaiman’s blog post, Matt Selman, who was directing the episode, asked Gaiman [...]
Fantasy news round-up, September 27, 2010
Plans to improve access to Pooh Bridge unveiled Plans to improve access to a bridge made famous in the Winnie the Pooh books have been put forward. More than 35,000 people a year visit the wooden Pooh Bridge in Ashdown Forest, near Hartfield, East Sussex. The bridge was the venue for the game Poohsticks in [...]
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comic to be adapted for TV
The Sandman, the Neil Gaiman-written comic book series is in the early stages of being developed into a TV series. Warner Bros. TV is in the midst of acquiring television rights from sister company DC Entertainment and in talks with several writer-producers about adapting the 1990s comic. The book helped establish DC’s Vertigo imprint and [...]
Four books - old and new alike - that were a joy to read are selected each month. See past winners.
Ack-Ack MacaqueGareth L Powell
Days of Blood and StarlightLaini Taylor
Hemlock GroveBrian McGreevy
Zoo CityLauren Beukes
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