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(1) EATING THE FANTASTIC. Scott Edelman invites listeners to feast on crab fried rice with Nina Kiriki Hoffman in Episode 214 of his Eating the Fantastic podcast. Nina Kiriki Hoffman, who aside from having sung the earworm “Feelings” with me more times than I can count, has either won or been a finalist for the

(1) INDIE SPIRIT. The 2024 Independent Spirit Awards nominations are out. Full list at Variety: “Indie Spirit Film and TV Nominations 2024 Revealed”. …The annual honors recognize the best of television, as well as film…. Only new TV shows that have run for one season and were released between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of

(1) SMOFCON COMING TO SEATTLE. [Via Petréa Mitchell.] Last night Seattle won the right to host next year's Smofcon, the international travelling con for people who run cons. It'll be December 6-8 at the SeaTac Doubletree.Attending memberships are $60 through sometime Tuesday. See more at the Smofcon 41 website. (2) INDIE INK AWARDS. [Item by

Cozy up with these new releases from Timothy Zahn, Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and more.

Award-winning author Carly Holmes is to appear at the Cellar Bards, Cardigan, later this month.

(1) DANGEROUS COVER REVEALS. J. Michael Straczynski today posted in social media links to the Amazon pre-order pages showing the covers of of Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions coming out from Blackstone Publishing next year. JMS added that, “What's not noted in this description is that this edition of Dangerous Visions the book has

At the annual conference for horror writers, I drank with my heroes, dressed up for "horror prom," and visited the Living Dead Museum. On the periphery of whats "normal," I finally found my center.

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

(1) HELL OF A STORY. Jennifer McMahon discusses nine books where “The Devil Made Me Do It” at CrimeReads. …I was a child of the late seventies. I grew up watching The Exorcist, The Omen and Rosemary’s Baby. Movies that taught me the nature of true evil and terror. While movies were the gateway to this terrifying genre, books go

(1) NICOLA GRIFFITH Q&A. “’Hild' sequel author Nicola Griffith talks about 'Menewood'” in the Christian Science Monitor. When did you first learn about the real Hild? I love old abbeys, old castles, all that kind of thing. But I had never been to [the ruins of Whitby] Abbey until I was in my early 20s.