Radium Age News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Tobias Carroll recommends six new books in translation to read now, from Bengali science fiction to an early work by Witold Gombrowicz.

The October Country. The season of mists and melancholy. That time of year when graveyards yawn and things go bump in the night and we break out worn copies of Herbert Wise and Phyllis Fraser’s “Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural” or the collected ghost stories of Vernon Lee and M.R. James. In 2023, […]

(1) ARE THESE YOUR FAVORITE SPOILERS? “Doctor Who's Alex Kingston on hiding River Song's biggest spoiler” at Radio Times. Beware spoilers. Further warning: the one excerpted below is not the “biggest spoiler” referred to in the headline. "She's not a companion, she's a wife!" Alex Kingston is quick to correct about her beloved Doctor Who character River Song.

(1) COURT DECISION CURBS A LONGTIME COPYRIGHT REQUIREMENT. [Item by Anne Marble.] In 2018, print-on-demand publisher Valancourt Books sued the U.S. Copyright Office because of the "mandatory deposit" requirement -- where publishers are required to send U.S. Copyright Office copies of about 240 of the books they publish. They didn't have the books on hand

For whatever quirky reason, August 2023 is particularly robust on two fronts: short-story collections, and retellings that shed new light on familiar characters from myths and history. That said, this month’s list is simply huge (70 titles!) and also has plenty of epic fantasy and sci-fi—as well as some truly original ideas, like a tale involving sentient tornadoes. Read on!