Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Below are the nominees for the 2005 the 2005 Hugo Awards. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Aug. 7.

Best Novel: The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks, Iron Council by China Miéville, Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, River of Gods by Ian McDonald

Best Novella: “The Concrete Jungle” by Charles Stross, “Elector” by Charles Stross, “Sergeant Chip” by Bradley Denton,…

The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame has named Steven SPielberg, Philip K. Dick, Chesley Bonestell and Ray Harryhausen as its 2005 inductees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. The class of 2005 will be honored during the first ever induction ceremony at the Hall of Fame’s new home the Science Fiction Museum on Friday May 6th 2005.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame honros the work and ongoing…

I’m assuming that anyone who comes to this site enjoys Sci Fi, Science Fiction, Fantasy or Speculative Fiction. Pick your term of choice.

So I thought you might be interested to know that Evo, one of the fine people behind The Dragon Page broadcasts has taken over maintenance of the SF/F node at Ipodder.org and it turns out that there’s quite a few sci-fi related podcasts going on these days.…

There’s always that point when no matter how much you like something you think things have gone to far. I’ve hit that point with the news that producers are working on a musical version of The Lord of the Rings to open in Toronto in March 2006.

Producer Kevin Wallace said that the musical would be a hybrid of”text, music, specatacle and physical theater”. The music is being written by A.R.…

Robert Jordan is the pseudonym for James Oliver Rigney Jr. Under this name Jordan has written the popular Wheel of Time fantasy series and a number of Conan books. He has also written historic fiction under the name Reagan O’Neal and westerns as Jackson O’Reilly.

Jordan started writing in 1977 publishing history articles. His first novel The Fallon Blood was published in 1980 and was a historical family drama (written as…