Ian Randal Strock will take over as owner of the Fantastic Books imprint. The line was founded to publish original and reprint SF as part of Warren Lapine’s company Wilder Publications in 2009, and Strock has been publisher since early 2010. Fantastic Books will become an imprint of Strock’s own Gray Rabbit Publications. Strock says [...]

Chicon 7 won their bid to host the 2012 Worldcon in voting held at Aussicon 4. The convention will be held August 30-September 3, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago IL. Mike Resnick will be Author Guest of Honor; Rowena Morrill will be Artist Guest of Honor; Story Musgrave will be Astronaut Guest of [...]

 

He’s old this time. A hospital gown sags over his gaunt frame. IV wires stream from his arms, plugging him into a thousand machines. I could tear them out one by one.

I ask, “Do you know who I am?”

He rolls his head back and forth, trying to see. His eyes are pale with cataracts, roosting in nests of wrinkles. He gestures me closer, skin thin to the point of translucence, veins tunneling below.

Recognition strikes. “You’re that boy I hurt. . . . All grown up. . . .”

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Winners of the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced at a ceremony during Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Melbourne, Australia, September 5, 2010. Best Novel (tie) The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) The Windup Girl, Paolo [...]