Portal : Speculative fiction/News/Archives/2012
July 24: The winners of the 2012 Teen Choice Awards are announced.[1]
July 23: The first American female to make it to space, astronaut Sally Ride , dies at 61.[2]
July 20: English actor Simon Ward , who appeared in genre films such as Supergirl Dracula [3]
July 19: The nominees for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards are announced.[4]
July 17: American actor Morgan Paull , known best for his role as Holden in Blade Runner [5]
July 16: The 5th annual Shirley Jackson Awards are announced during the 2012 Readercon .[6]
July 16: The winners of the 2012 Scribe Awards are announced.[7]
July 16: The winners of the 2012 Prometheus Awards , to be presented at Chicon 7 , are announced.[8]
July 16: American television director and producer William Asher , known for his work on The Twilight Zone Bewitched [9]
July 14: American author Frederic Brown (1906-1972) is named winner of the 2012 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award .[10]
July 10: Dr. Fred Lerner, an alumnus of Columbia University , announces the donation his science fiction and fantasy publications collection to Columbia University Libraries .[11]
July 8: Prolific American actor Ernest Borgnine , known for costarring in the television seriesAirwolf [12]
July 3: American actor Andy Griffith , who had only a few genre appearances, dies at 86.[13]
June 29: The winners of the 2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Awards and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards are announced.[14]
June 29: A company demonstrates the first practical cloak of invisibility for large 3D objects.[15]
June 28: Amazon.com may purchase assets and rights of former publisher Dorchester Publishing at end of August.[16]
June 26: The nominees for the 2012 Sunburst Award are announced.[17]
June 19: American actor Richard Lynch , best known for portraying villainous roles, dies at 72.[18]
June 18: Nominees for the 2012 Chesley Awards are announced.[19]
June 15: The winners of the 2012 David Gemmell Legend Awards are announced.[20]
June 13: The winners are announced for the 2012 Ditmar Award for achievement in Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror.[21]
June 12: The nominees for the 2012 Sidewise Award for Alternate History are announced.[22]
June 7: The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers announces the nominees for the 6th annual Scribe Awards .[23]
June 7: The winners of the 24th Lambda Literary Awards are announced.[24]
June 7: The winners of the 2012 Audie Awards are announced, including genre work Hard Magic by Larry Correia .[25]
June 5: British actress Caroline John , best known for her role as Liz Shaw in Doctor Who [26]
June 5: Prolific genre author Ray Bradbury dies at 91.[27] [28]
June 3: The winners of the 2012 MTV Movie Awards are announced.[29]
May 30: The New York Anime Festival merges with the New York Comic Con .[30]
May 26: American illustrator Leo Dillon dies at 79.[31]
May 24: Author T. C. McCarthy wins the 2012 Compton Crook Award for his novel Germline .[32]
May 23: The finalists for the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award are announced.[33]
May 23: The 2012 finalists for the Mythopoeic Awards are announced.[34]
May 20: SFWA announces the winners of the 2011 Nebula Awards .[35]
May 19: Analog Asimov's [36]
May 18: The winners of the 2011 Aurealis Awards are announced.[37]
May 16: A special exhibit at the British Library , Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands , celebrates the 75th anniversary of Tolkien's The Hobbit [38]
May 16: Dark Horse Comics plans release of classic fantastical and horror comics.[39]
May 11: MTV announces the nominees for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards .[40]
May 11: A stage adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin 's The Lathe of Heaven [41]
May 9: Disaster experts estimate damage to New York City from The Avengers [42]
May 9: An analytical biography of the late Frank Herbert , author of Dune [43]
May 8: American illustrator and writer Maurice Sendak , best known for his 1963 children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are [44]
May 7: The Avengers [45]
May 7: Nominees for the 2012 British Fantasy Award are announced.[46]
May 3: American author and editor Stanley Schmidt wins the 2012 Robert A. Heinlein Award .[referencelink]
May 3: Jane Rogers ' near future novel,The Testament of Jessie Lamb , wins the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award .[47]
April 30: American actor George Murdock , known for his role as Dr. Salik on the original Battlestar Galactica [referencelink]
April 29: American composer Joel Goldsmith , best known for his work on the TV series Stargate SG-1 [48]
April 28: British actress Patricia Medina dies at 92.[49]
April 22: The nominees for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards are announced.[50]
April 20: The winners of the 2012 SFRA Awards are announced.[51]
April 18: The Edgar Allan Poe Museum announces the future release of a previously-unknown Poe manuscript.[52]
April 18: American author K. D. Wentworth dies at 61.[53]
April 16: After nearly a year of delays, Pottermore opens for public registration.[54]
April 16: American author Ernest Callenbach dies at 83.[55]
April 13: The nominees for the 2012 Prix Aurora Awards are announced.[56]
April 13: The University of Iowa announces the acquisition of thousands of pulp magazines collected by long-time fan Rusty Hevelin , who recently died.[57]
April 13: Canadian actor Jonathan Frid , best known for his portrayal of vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows [58]
April 10: The winners of the 2011 BSFA Awards are announced, including Christopher Priest for his novel The Islanders .[59]
April 9: Author Simon Morden wins the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award for his work, The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy .[60]
April 7: The final nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards are announced.[61]
April 5: The nominees for the 2012 Eisner Comic Awards are announced.[62]
April 4: The Libertarian Futurist Society announces the finalists for the 2012 Prometheus Awards .[63]
April 2: The winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards are announced, including the novel Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney .[64]
March 29: CBS sends cease and desist letter to fans working on an unfilmed Star Trek: The Original Series Norman Spinrad .[65]
March 28: A Doctor Who T.A.R.D.I.S. wedding ring.[66]
March 28: Clarence Howard "Bud" Webster announced to receive the 2012 Service to SFWA Award .[67]
March 27: The finalists for the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award are announced.[68]
March 27: A video game based on Brandon Sanderson 's Mistborn [69]
March 22: The nominees for the 24th Lambda Literary Awards are announced.[70]
March 20: Japanese director Noboru Ishiguro , known for his work on the Space Battleship Yamato [71] [72]
March 20: Finalists are announced for the 2011 Aurealis Awards .[73]
March 19: American author Gene DeWeese dies at 78.[74]
March 15: A South Carolina parent accuses a teacher of reading pornographic material to students, states that Ender's Game [75] [76] [77]
March 13: Writers Octavia Butler (1947-2006) and John Clute (b. 1940) receive the SFWA Solstice Award .[78]
March 10: French comics artist Mœbius dies at 73.[79]
March 9: Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston is wins 2011 Tiptree Award .[80]
March 9: NASA and other international agencies hosting Space Apps Challenge in late April.[81]
March 9: Pottermore announces public unveiling in April 2012.[82]
March 6: American composer Robert B. Sherman , winner of two Academy Awards for his work on Mary Poppins [83]
March 6: Terra Nova [84] [85]
March 5: BBC begins airing the three-part Dirk Gently [86]
March 5: Unfilmed Star Trek: The Original Series Norman Spinrad to be made into a fan film.[87]
March 5: New Zealand-born Australian writer Paul Haines dies at [88]
March 3: American conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie , best known for his design work on the Star Wars [89] [90]
March 2: Orson Scott Card 's fantasy series Seventh Son [91]
March 1: Nominees for the 38th Saturn Awards are announced.[92] [93]
March 1: Pac-Man [94]
February 27: Artist Michael Whelan is announced as the cover illustrator for the final Wheel of Time A Memory of Light [95]
February 27: Winners are announced for the 84th Academy Awards , with Hugo [96]
February 25: The nominees for the 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards are announced.[97] [98]
February 23: Author J. K. Rowling announces publisher for forthcoming book.[99]
February 23: Original script from axed Star Trek: The Original Series [100]
February 23: Upcoming Doctor Who Star Trek: The Next Generation [101]
February 20: The Horror Writers Association announces the nominees for the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards .[102]
February 20: The release date is announced for A Memory of Light The Wheel of Time [103]
February 20: The nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards are announced.[104] [105]
February 20: The Audio Publishers Association announces the nominees for the 2012 Audie Awards .[106]
February 13: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announces genre winners at the 65th British Academy Film Awards .[107]
February 12: Irish actor David Kelly dies at 82.[108]
February 8: Locus [109]
February 5: American actor and director Bill Hinzman dies at 75.[110]
February 3: British writer John Christopher dies at 89.[111]
February 3: American director, actor, writer, and producer Zalman King dies at 69.[112]
February 1: American writer Ardath Mayhar dies at 81.[113]
January 26: English actor Ian Abercrombie dies at 77.[114]
January 25: A Star Trek Voyager [115]
January 24: American actor Dick Tufeld , best known as the voice of the robot in the original Lost in Space [116]
January 24: Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards are announced.[117] [118]
January 24: American actor James Farentino , who costarred with Kirk Douglas in The Final Countdown [119]
January 23: The shortlist is released for the 2011 BSFA Awards .[120]
January 23: Bad Moon Books and Hippocampus Press are announced as the winners of the Horror Writers Association 2011 Specialty Press Award.[121]
January 21: Oscar-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka dies at 72.[122]
January 20: The winners of the Hydra Contest, a speculative fiction contest in Brazil, will be published in InterGalactic Medicine Show [123]
January 19: The nominees for the 2012 British Academy Film Awards are announced.[124]
January 19: Hammer announces the restoration of its horror film library.[125]
January 18: The Horror Writers Association releases the nominees for the Vampire Novel of the Century Award.[126]
January 18: American author Connie Willis is named the winner of the 2011 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award .[127] [128]
January 17: Four genre works win at the 69th Golden Globe Awards .[129]
January 13: DC Comics ends six of its comics series.[130]
January 12: American author Howard Hopkins dies at 50.[131]
January 11: The winners of the 38th People's Choice Awards are announced.[132]
January 10: Star Wars: Underworld [133]
January 10: The 500th episode of the long-running series The Simpsons [134]
January 10: The nominees for the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award are announced.[135]
January 9: Wizards of the Coast seeks to crowdsource the upcoming 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons [136]
January 9: Four speculative fiction TV series pilots are given the green light by NBC .[137]
January 9: Joe R. Lansdale and Rick Hautala are named recipients of the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.[138]
January 9: American author Gene Wolfe wins the first Fuller Award for "outstanding lifetime contribution to literature."[139]
January 9: Photos from the first science fiction convention, held in Leeds in 1937, are now available online.[140]
January 6: A Las Vegas -area brothel will feature "alien" women.[141]
January 6: The Horror Writers Association announces a sponsor for the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award.[142]
January 5: Boxoffice [143]
January 5: The final nominees for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects are announced.[144]
January 4: Richard Alf , founder of San Diego Comic-Con International , dies at 59.[145]
January 1: Bob Anderson , film fight choreographer and stunt double during Darth Vader 's lightsaber battles in the original three Star Wars [146] [147]
