Category: Books

Remembering Star Trek’s D. C. Fontana

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Mar 25, 2024 | Books, Movies / Video / Theater, Science Fiction / Fantasy |

March 26, 2024, would have been Dorothy Catherine Fontana’s 85th birthday. The remarkable writer and mentor, and screenwriter of some of Star Trek’s most famous episodes, passed away in 2019.

SF Author Vernor Vinge Passes Away

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Mar 25, 2024 | Books, Obituaries, Science Fiction / Fantasy |

Hugo winning SF author and professor Vernor Vinge has died from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 79.

RIP SF Author, Editor and Publisher Steve Miller Dead at 73

Posted by Susan Macdonald | Feb 22, 2024 | Books, Obituaries, Science Fiction / Fantasy |

Steve Miller, the co-author of the popular Liaden series of books, died suddenly at his home in Waterville, Maine.

The 2023 Hugo Awards in China Were Probably Not a Great Idea

Posted by Gene Turnbow | Feb 19, 2024 | Books, Events, Politics |

Neil Gaiman, R.F. Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao were deemed ineligible for works that are “sensitive” to China.

Book Review: Travis Baldree’s Legends and Lattes

Posted by Lori Alden Holuta | Feb 13, 2024 | Books, Reviews |

Viv is an orc who’s grown weary of the fighting life, so she retires to the city of Thune to build a coffee shop. Amusingly, no one in Thune even knows what coffee is. Lori Alden Holuta reviews.

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