Locus Magazine is still considered a fanzine by the awards committee, but it has really been the science fiction industry trade journal for the past twenty years. There is not too much content online, but a few posts a week give either free excerpts from the magazine or best-seller lists.
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Robert Holdstock, 61, died in a London hospital at 4 a.m. on November 29, 2009 after almost two weeks in intensive care battling a severe E. coli infection. He was hospitalized after collapsing on November 18 and put on life-support, with...
Shannon Page reports that Jay Lake's lung surgery went well. Lake's cancer appears to have been metastatic colon cancer. He faces four to six weeks of recovery. Further reports (and a photo of Lake's Hawaiian hospital gown) available via Shannon...
Author Robert Holdstock is in a hospital in London with a severe E. coli infection. He is responding to medication, and his condition is currently stable. The family requests no calls or visits. Further updates will be available at Ansible.
British bibliographer and literary scholar I.F. Clarke died November 5, 2009 in a nursing home, following complications from a leg amputation in August. Clarke was an expert in future-war fiction, and his many publications include Voices Prophesying...
SFWA reports that Paul A. Carter has retired from the John W. Campbell Memorial Award jury after serving since the 1970s. In his absence, Sheila Finch and Paul di Filippo will both join the jury, effective immediately. The John W. Campbell Memorial...
