A speed demon at the typewriter, Malzberg wrote quickly and brilliantly in a variety of genres including mystery, thrillers, and erotica, but his core work was in science fiction.
Ten years ago, Jeff VanderMeer penned the unsettling, swampy, bureaucratic hellscape of Area X: a contaminated region off of the Floridan coast that became the setting for his immensely popular Southern Reach trilogy, comprised off Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. Read more
In a spirited five-day celebration, held August 8-12 at the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, crowds converged from all over the globe for the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, known as Worldcon. Show organizers said that more than 8,000 membership badges were purchased in total, with over 7,200 issued at the venue and upwards of 600 in attendance online.
In her Reith lecture of 2017, recently published for the first time in a posthumous collection of nonfiction, A Memoir of My Former Self, Hilary Mantel recalled the beginnings of her career as a novelist. It was the 1970s. "In those days historical fiction wasn't respectable or respected," she recalled. "It meant historical romance. Read more
This was my first anthology and the opportunity for J.G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, Michael Moorcock, Christopher Priest, Keith Roberts, Bob Shaw and many others to be published in France for the first time. This was my debut anthology and, by default, I became a serial anthologist and, for my sins, have now edited around 130.
Poets ‘are the great people in literature because they manage to gather thought and feeling, and intellectual and emotional intensity into words in a way that I haven't done in my writing...
An "upbeat" and busy Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025 has seen a marked appetite for shorter and illustrated works - despite there being no runaway book of the fair - though the grim state of geopolitics dimmed many fairgoers' moods.
The global graphic novel market is getting more attention in Bologna this year, with an expanded number of exhibitors and panels dedicated to the topic. "Graphic novels represent one of the most significant growth areas in children's publishing globally," Peter Warwick, CEO of Scholastic, said during a panel celebrating the 20th anniversary of Scholastic's Graphix imprint. Read more
The explosion of generative artificial intelligence technologies, including such large language models as ChatGPT, caught many in the book business off guard when it began in earnest in late 2023. Read more
April is Stress Awareness Month, an initiative designed to put emotional wellbeing at the forefront and a good time to revisit pastoral care in the publishing industry. But how would you, as a publishing professional, know if an author is stressed? And what can you do about it if they are?
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books "that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers".
Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI programmes, as reported in the Atlantic, provoking outcry from many writers and organisations such as the Society of Authors (SoA).
‘I am a crime writer, I understand theft,' said Val McDermid - joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf
A number of authors including Richard Osman, Val McDermid, Kate Mosse, Kazuo Ishiguro and Sarah Waters have signed an open letter from the Society of Authors (SoA) demanding that Meta be held to account by the UK government following allegations in the US that authors' works have been used without permission or remuneration to train its artificial intelligence (AI) model.