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The Million-Year Picnic Is Over: Bradbury’s Mars Runs Out of Calendar
The final chapter of Ray Bradbury's original The Martian Chronicles is dated October 2026. So why does the prophet of the post-literate age…
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October 2026
NewsScifi
Malcolm Edwards 1949–2026… the Stars His Destination (obituary).
Malcolm Edwards, the Gollancz editor and publisher who launched the SF Masterworks, has died aged 76. A look back at a remarkable life…
NewsScifi
V.E. Schwab’s Victorious: Villains trilogy finally ends, only eight years late
The third and final Villains novel from V.E. Schwab is published by Tor Books on 6 October 2026, closing the long feud between…
August 2026
NewsScifi
E.J. Swift wins 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award (book news).
E.J. Swift has won the 40th Arthur C. Clarke Award for When There Are Wolves Again, published by Arcadia, proving once again that…
July 2026
NewsHorror
Ramsey Campbell Invites Readers to Embrace the Dark in 2027 (book news).
Veteran horror writer Ramsey Campbell will be opening another door marked “Absolutely Do Not Enter” in 2027, when Flame Tree Press publishes his…
NewsHorror
Helen Grant Conjures Up a New Literary Agent for Purslane the Witch (news).
Novelist Helen Grant has joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency with her new novel, Purslane the Witch, a tale combining malevolent magic, disappearing…
NewsFantasy
Till Golem do us part? NewCon Press acquires The Crafter’s Wife (book news).
NewCon Press has acquired World English rights to The Crafter’s Wife, the debut fantasy novel by Dani Raanan, proving once again that arranged…
NewsScifi
Best of British science fiction gets bundled (news).
What is this, we hear at the Nest, somebody has now bundled fifteen rather fine examples of British science fiction, fantasy and horror…
May 2026
NewsFantasy
Jon Courtenay Grimwood signs two-book Historical Fantasy deal with Transworld (Heaven immediately looks nervous) (news)
Transworld UK has pre-emptively acquired two new historical fantasy novels from bestselling author Jon Courtenay Grimwood, which is a sentence that already sounds…
April 2026
NewsBooks
Ian Watson RIP: another one of the greats gone (author news).
The science fiction world has dimmed a little this week with the passing of Ian Watson, a writer whose work never quite behaved…
March 2026
NewsFantasy
Jon Courtenay Grimwood heads back into fantasy with John Jarrold in tow (publishing news).
Some books arrive neatly pressed, polished and ready for market. Others spend twenty years rattling chains in the attic, refusing to die until…
February 2026
NewsScifi
Aces High: A Wild Cards Collection (book 31) edited by George RR Martin.
Another ‘Wild Cards’ book from TOR, when the Wild Cards Trust has moved to Random House Worlds? Under their Reactor Internet imprint, eleven…