Last week in the trades a couple of stories appeared about NIGHTFLYERS: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/george-rr-martin-novella-nightflyers-headed-tv-syfy-1001934 http://www.tor.com/2017/05/11/syfy-adapting-george-r-r-martins-novella-nightflyers-for-television/ There were a bunch more. Google and you’ll find ’em. Needless to say, once those stories appeared I was deluged with requests for comment and clarification. Here’s the scoop. In 1980 I wrote a novella called “Nightflyers.” It was one of […]

Nominating for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist is always especially difficult.   There are so many terrific talents working in science fiction and fantasy just now, it is next to impossible to settle on just four or five as being worthy of a nod.   Nonetheless, that’s the way it works, so… Once again, I’ve […]

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Hugo Awards, to be awarded this August in Dublin at the Irish Worldcon. The Hugos (as most of you know) are the oldest and most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy.   They’ve been giving them since 1953, and the list of winners… and nominees… is a Who’s […]

This really is the Golden Age of Television.   So many great shows, more than anyone can possibly keep track of… especially anyone as busy as I am these days.   But I love TV (and movies, and books), and when I find something I really enjoy I like to spread the word (“boost signal,” I think […]

Tomorrow is the official publication day for TEXAS HOLD ‘EM, the latest original mosaic novel in the Wild Cards series.   Grab one from your favorite local bookstore or online bookseller.   If you want an autographed copy, those will be available from my Jean Cocteau Cinema bookshop. FIRE & BLOOD comes out on November 20.   There […]

It’s August, and that means that worldcon is coming around once again.   (In a properly ordered universe, worldcon would be coming on Labor Day weekend but sadly that seems to be a lost cause since Dragoncon stole those dates). This year’s gathering is in San Jose, California.   It ought to be called ConJose II, but […]

Gardner Dozois died on Sunday. I cannot tell you how hard it was for me to write those words.   I probably should have posted something Sunday night, or yesterday for sure, but I just couldn’t.  It almost felt as if writing it would make it real, and there’s a part of me, a BIG part […]

THIS MESSAGE IS BEING BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MINIONS OF FEVRE RIVER The illustrated edition of Nightflyers is available today here in the US in TWO different formats One featuring fifteen gorgeously haunting illustrations by David Palumbo from Random House Publishing. …And for those of you not into pretty pictures… The other edition of […]

With the NIGHTFLYERS television series deep in the throes of pre-production and set to start filing over in Limerick soon, my original novella will soon be available again… twice. Tor is going to reissuing NIGHTFLYERS & OTHER STORIES, the short story collection we released originally in 1985. More details on that one in my post […]

My novella “Nightflyers” tells the story of a group of scientists who charter a tramp starship to take them into deep interstellar space in search of the volcryn, an alien species thought by some to be mythic. In my original story, only the three main characters are named — Karoly d’Branin, the leader of the […]