The Fantasy Times

Ok. Maybe this is the science geek in me but this is sweet. This is a collection, or hopeful collection, of writings, poems and snippets about genes and genomics. Just damn sweet.

Jim Baen’s Universe is closing after 4 years. They didn’t have the growth in subscriber base they expected. Full Story.

Google engineers talk about all books being in the cloud and that you pay for rights to read once….Full Story

I am excessively impressed with the new and much needed updated SFWA website. Check it.

Remember when Locus changed the rules during mid-stream during last year’s voting for the Locus awards? Well, it appears things have come home to roost. This year, there were only 662 valid ballots, down significantly from 1,012 last year. I imagine there was a lot of frustration over their changing the game [...]

Here we go again. The Tolkien estate and his son and daughter are suing to halt production of “The Hobbit.” Apparently they are owed $220 million (their assertion) and want the money and the rights returned to the Tolkien Estate. I can’t imagine the the $3 billion dollars the other LOTR movies [...]

First they had it, then they didn’t. Apparently when people bought Orwell’s 1984, they didn’t read the fine print. Amazon played a little big brother and remotely deleted the book from users’ Kindle’s when they were unable to settle the rights issues. Full Story

The World Fantasy Award Nominees have been announced.    The awards will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose the end of October.  See the complete list here.