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Did your favorites make it into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame? (Sci Fi Wire)
The Science Fiction Museum and SF Hall of Fame announced that this year's Hall of Fame inductees will be Octavia E. Butler, Roger Zelazny, Douglas Trumbull and Richard Matheson.

Lee & Low Books Acquires Tu Publishing, Brings Diversity to Fantasy and Science Fiction (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
LEE & LOW BOOKS, the respected independent children's book publisher specializing in diversity, has acquired Tu Publishing, an independent press focusing on multicultural fantasy and science fiction for middle grade and young adult readers.

iPad Will Have Erotic eBooks? (The Huffington Post)
What's Your Reaction? Forbes said that within the twenty "top level" iBook categories, there are a whopping 150 subcategories including "Fantasy," "Science Fiction," "Manga," and more. There are also sub-sub categories such as "Historical" and "Paranormal."

By Krista Daly and Kristin Hirai (Daily Sundial)
CTVA screenwriting major Collin Pelton, 30, will star in a new television series called “The 5th Dimension.” “The 5th Dimension” is an unconventional portrayal of a science-fiction series.

Mind Reading Moves Closer to Reality (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Mind reading may have taken a step away from the realm of science fiction, thanks to a new study in which researchers taught a computer to spot specific memories as a person was having them.

Sci-fi fans rejoice: Leonard Nimoy at Emerald City ComiCon (Tacoma News Tribune)
He became a science-fiction character so iconic that even a new president’s demeanor has been compared to him. And yet Leonard Nimoy , the original Spock from “ Star Trek ,” is not ready to retire. He’s just going to be giving those famous pointy ears a rest.

Crash into the strange world of JC Ballard (The Ham&High Network)
The provocative, visionary writer JG Ballard claimed that he turned to science fiction in the 1950s because he didn't want to write the Hampstead novel. "The great thing about science fiction was that nobody in it lived in Hampstead," he said.

Science fiction, fantasy fans flock to CoastCon (The Biloxi Sun Herald)
BILOXI — Science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts landed on the Coast this weekend for the 33rd annual CoastCon.

Science fiction and fantasy books (San Francisco Chronicle)
Three recent science fiction and fantasy novels find horror and bloodshed in the past, present and future. A fourth serves as a tribute to a unique talent taken from us far too soon. Having most recently written about the doomed Franklin Arctic...

Is Earth under attack from an invisible star? (rediff.com)
In what sounds like a chilling script of a Hollywood science fiction, scientists have claimed that an invisible star, five times the size of Jupiter, might be lurking near our solar system, occasionally kicking deadly comets towards the Earth.