Sunday 25 September 2011 was the last day of the British Library’s sci-fi exhibition titled - Out Of This World: Science Fiction but not as you know it. It is likely that readers of these pages would have taken the time off to visit the unique summer show.  Tom Hunter, Director of the Arthur C Clarke Award opines that 2011 [...]

I really wanted to mention the Quick Reads initiative. This is a brilliant publishing venture which produces easy to read fiction and non-fiction (including some sci-fi such as Dr Who) in very short formats and with larger than normal typeface. Quick Reads are brilliant, short books by bestselling writers and celebrities. These exciting, dramatic and [...]

Did you know that there were very many publishers of sf books – ideomancer, Galactic Central Publications, Alien Skin, Another Realm, Coronet, Atom Books, Bantam Press, Bella Books, Black Swan, CimmPlicity, Colin Smythe Ltd, Corgi, , Crazed Fanboy, Elastic Press, Five Star, Flashot, Fourth Estate Ltd, , Gollancz, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Headline, Hodder & Stoughton, [...]