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Recent IAFA News
- New Book Published – The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema
- Preternature CFP
- Where the Wild Things Are author, Maurice Sendak, dies at age 83
- Übergänge und Entgrenzungen in der Fantastik / Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic
- Jane Rogers wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Stanley Schmidt wins this year’s Heinlein Award
- 2012-13 R.D. Mullen Research Fellowships
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New Book Published – The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema
The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema by Jeffrey Weinstock is now available from Columbia University Press. It retails for $20 but if you are in North America and enter the code VAMWE you can get it for 30% off through CUP’s … Continue reading
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Preternature CFP
Preternature Volume 3:1 The Early Modern Witch (1450-1700) The publication of early witchcraft texts created witches by generating controversy about them. Witch-dramas, pamphlets, testimonies about witch-encounters, sermons, and accounts of trials published the anxieties, related the long standing suspicions, and … Continue reading
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Where the Wild Things Are author, Maurice Sendak, dies at age 83
Seminal children’s literature author, Maurice Sendak, died today from complications from a recent stroke. He is a Caldecott Medal winner and National Medal of Arts winner who illustrated more than 50 books but was best known for “Where the Wild … Continue reading
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Übergänge und Entgrenzungen in der Fantastik / Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic
Invitation to the Third Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF), at the University of Zurich from 13th to 16th September 2012 The third conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung will take place at Zurich University, from 13th to … Continue reading
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Jane Rogers wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers has been declared the best science fiction novel of the year and the 26th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Published by Sandstone Press, the novel is set in a near-future … Continue reading
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Stanley Schmidt wins this year’s Heinlein Award
Stanley Schmidt won this year’s Robert A. Heinlein Award, which is given for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space. The award committee consists of science fiction writers and is chaired … Continue reading
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2012-13 R.D. Mullen Research Fellowships
The winners of the fourth annual R.D. Mullen Research Fellowship have been announced. The R.D. Mullen Research Fellowship is funded by SF Studies in the name of their late founding editor to support archival research in the J. Lloyd Eaton … Continue reading
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2012 Locus Award Finalists
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top five finalists in each category of the 2012 Locus Awards. Winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 15-17, 2012. Connie Willis will MC the … Continue reading
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ICFA Survey: it’s not too late!
If you haven’t filled out the survey, it’s not too late!! We’d love your feedback and will definitely review at our next board meeting so make sure your voice is heard. The survey is located at http://app.fluidsurveys.com/surveys/iafa/icfa-2012/. Thanks everyone!
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CFP Arthurian Film / TV / Electronic Games
Arthurian Film / TV / Electronic Games Collection (6/1/12) The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages is seeking proposals of 500 words for essays devoted to Arthurian-themed film, television, and/or electronic games. We are … Continue reading
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