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2012

 * July 24: The winners of the 2012 Teen Choice Awards are announced.
 * July 23: The first American female to make it to space, astronaut Sally Ride, dies at 61.
 * July 20: English actor Simon Ward, who appeared in genre films such as Supergirl and the 1973 Dracula, dies at 70.
 * July 19: The nominees for the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards are announced.
 * July 17: American actor Morgan Paull, known best for his role as Holden in Blade Runner, dies at 67.
 * July 16: The 5th annual Shirley Jackson Awards are announced during the 2012 Readercon.
 * July 16: The winners of the 2012 Scribe Awards are announced.
 * July 16: The winners of the 2012 Prometheus Awards, to be presented at Chicon 7, are announced.
 * July 16: American television director and producer William Asher, known for his work on The Twilight Zone and Bewitched, dies at 90.
 * July 14: American author Frederic Brown (1906-1972) is named winner of the 2012 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.
 * July 10: Dr. Fred Lerner, an alumnus of Columbia University, announces the donation his science fiction and fantasy publications collection to Columbia University Libraries.
 * July 8: Prolific American actor Ernest Borgnine, known for costarring in the television seriesAirwolf, dies at 95.
 * July 3: American actor Andy Griffith, who had only a few genre appearances, dies at 86.
 * June 29: The winners of the 2012 John W. Campbell Memorial Awards and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards are announced.
 * June 29: A company demonstrates the first practical cloak of invisibility for large 3D objects.
 * June 28: Amazon.com may purchase assets and rights of former publisher Dorchester Publishing at end of August.
 * June 26: The nominees for the 2012 Sunburst Award are announced.
 * June 19: American actor Richard Lynch, best known for portraying villainous roles, dies at 72.
 * June 18: Nominees for the 2012 Chesley Awards are announced.
 * June 15: The winners of the 2012 David Gemmell Legend Awards are announced.
 * June 13: The winners are announced for the 2012 Ditmar Award for achievement in Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
 * June 12: The nominees for the 2012 Sidewise Award for Alternate History are announced.
 * June 7: The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers announces the nominees for the 6th annual Scribe Awards.
 * June 7: The winners of the 24th Lambda Literary Awards are announced.
 * June 7: The winners of the 2012 Audie Awards are announced, including genre work Hard Magic by Larry Correia.
 * June 5: British actress Caroline John, best known for her role as Liz Shaw in Doctor Who, dies at 71.
 * June 5: Prolific genre author Ray Bradbury dies at 91.
 * June 3: The winners of the 2012 MTV Movie Awards are announced.
 * May 30: The New York Anime Festival merges with the New York Comic Con.
 * May 26: American illustrator Leo Dillon dies at 79.
 * May 24: Author T. C. McCarthy wins the 2012 Compton Crook Award for his novel Germline.
 * May 23: The finalists for the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award are announced.
 * May 23: The 2012 finalists for the Mythopoeic Awards are announced.
 * May 20: SFWA announces the winners of the 2011 Nebula Awards.
 * May 19: Analog and Asimov's announce the winners of their readers' choice awards.
 * May 18: The winners of the 2011 Aurealis Awards are announced.
 * May 16: A special exhibit at the British Library, Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, celebrates the 75th anniversary of Tolkien's The Hobbit.
 * May 16: Dark Horse Comics plans release of classic fantastical and horror comics.
 * May 11: MTV announces the nominees for the 2012 MTV Movie Awards.
 * May 11: A stage adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven is announced.
 * May 9: Disaster experts estimate damage to New York City from The Avengers climactic battle at $160 billion.
 * May 9: An analytical biography of the late Frank Herbert, author of Dune, is released.
 * May 8: American illustrator and writer Maurice Sendak, best known for his 1963 children's picture book Where the Wild Things Are, dies at 83.
 * May 7: The Avengers sets a new opening weekend box office record with $207 million in ticket sales.
 * May 7: Nominees for the 2012 British Fantasy Award are announced.
 * 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.
 * April 30: American actor George Murdock, known for his role as Dr. Salik on the original Battlestar Galactica, dies at 81. [referencelink]
 * April 29: American composer Joel Goldsmith, best known for his work on the TV series Stargate SG-1, dies at 54.
 * April 28: British actress Patricia Medina dies at 92.
 * April 22: The nominees for the 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards are announced.
 * April 20: The winners of the 2012 SFRA Awards are announced.
 * April 18: The Edgar Allan Poe Museum announces the future release of a previously-unknown Poe manuscript.
 * April 18: American author K. D. Wentworth dies at 61.
 * April 16: After nearly a year of delays, Pottermore opens for public registration.
 * April 16: American author Ernest Callenbach dies at 83.
 * April 13: The nominees for the 2012 Prix Aurora Awards are announced.
 * April 13: The University of Iowa announces the acquisition of thousands of pulp magazines collected by long-time fan Rusty Hevelin, who recently died.
 * April 13: Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, best known for his portrayal of vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, dies at 87.
 * April 10: The winners of the 2011 BSFA Awards are announced, including Christopher Priest for his novel The Islanders.
 * April 9: Author Simon Morden wins the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award for his work, The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy.
 * April 7: The final nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards are announced.
 * April 5: The nominees for the 2012 Eisner Comic Awards are announced.
 * April 4: The Libertarian Futurist Society announces the finalists for the 2012 Prometheus Awards.
 * April 2: The winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards are announced, including the novel Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney.
 * March 29: CBS sends cease and desist letter to fans working on an unfilmed Star Trek: The Original Series episode by Norman Spinrad.
 * March 28: A Doctor Who fan creates a T.A.R.D.I.S. wedding ring.
 * March 28: Clarence Howard "Bud" Webster announced to receive the 2012 Service to SFWA Award.
 * March 27: The finalists for the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award are announced.
 * March 27: A video game based on Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series is set to be released in 2013.
 * March 22: The nominees for the 24th Lambda Literary Awards are announced.
 * March 20: Japanese director Noboru Ishiguro, known for his work on the Space Battleship Yamato and other series, dies at 73.
 * March 20: Finalists are announced for the 2011 Aurealis Awards.
 * March 19: American author Gene DeWeese dies at 78.
 * March 15: A South Carolina parent accuses a teacher of reading pornographic material to students, states that Ender's Game is pornographic, and requests police file charges.
 * March 13: Writers Octavia Butler (1947-2006) and John Clute (b. 1940) receive the SFWA Solstice Award.
 * March 10: French comics artist Mœbius dies at 73.
 * March 9: Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston is wins 2011 Tiptree Award.
 * March 9: NASA and other international agencies hosting Space Apps Challenge in late April.
 * March 9: Pottermore announces public unveiling in April 2012.
 * March 6: American composer Robert B. Sherman, winner of two Academy Awards for his work on Mary Poppins, dies at 86.
 * March 6: Terra Nova, cancelled by Fox, may possibly be picked up Netflix.
 * March 5: BBC begins airing the three-part Dirk Gently TV series.
 * March 5: Unfilmed Star Trek: The Original Series episode by Norman Spinrad to be made into a fan film.
 * March 5: New Zealand-born Australian writer Paul Haines dies at
 * March 3: American conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie, best known for his design work on the Star Wars series, dies at 82.
 * March 2: Orson Scott Card's fantasy series Seventh Son to be made into a feature film.
 * March 1: Nominees for the 38th Saturn Awards are announced.
 * March 1: Pac-Man to be made into a new television series.
 * February 27: Artist Michael Whelan is announced as the cover illustrator for the final Wheel of Time book, A Memory of Light.
 * February 27: Winners are announced for the 84th Academy Awards, with Hugo winning in five categories.
 * February 25: The nominees for the 32nd Golden Raspberry Awards are announced.
 * February 23: Author J. K. Rowling announces publisher for forthcoming book.
 * February 23: Original script from axed Star Trek: The Original Series episode found by fan.
 * February 23: Upcoming Doctor Who / Star Trek: The Next Generation graphic novel crossover series will have character cameos.
 * February 20: The Horror Writers Association announces the nominees for the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards.
 * February 20: The release date is announced for A Memory of Light, the final book in The Wheel of Time epic fantasy novel series.
 * February 20: The nominees for the 2011 Nebula Awards are announced.
 * February 20: The Audio Publishers Association announces the nominees for the 2012 Audie Awards.
 * February 13: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announces genre winners at the 65th British Academy Film Awards.
 * February 12: Irish actor David Kelly dies at 82.
 * February 8: Locus announces a digital version of its magazine.
 * February 5: American actor and director Bill Hinzman dies at 75.
 * February 3: British writer John Christopher dies at 89.
 * February 3: American director, actor, writer, and producer Zalman King dies at 69.
 * February 1: American writer Ardath Mayhar dies at 81.
 * January 26: English actor Ian Abercrombie dies at 77.
 * January 25: A Star Trek Voyager fan has to dismantle his transformed living room due to divorce.
 * January 24: American actor Dick Tufeld, best known as the voice of the robot in the original Lost in Space TV series, dies at 85.
 * January 24: Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards are announced.
 * January 24: American actor James Farentino, who costarred with Kirk Douglas in The Final Countdown, dies at 73.
 * January 23: The shortlist is released for the 2011 BSFA Awards.
 * January 23: Bad Moon Books and Hippocampus Press are announced as the winners of the Horror Writers Association 2011 Specialty Press Award.
 * January 21: Oscar-winning costume designer Eiko Ishioka dies at 72.
 * January 20: The winners of the Hydra Contest, a speculative fiction contest in Brazil, will be published in InterGalactic Medicine Show.
 * January 19: The nominees for the 2012 British Academy Film Awards are announced.
 * January 19: Hammer announces the restoration of its horror film library.
 * January 18: The Horror Writers Association releases the nominees for the Vampire Novel of the Century Award.
 * January 18: American author Connie Willis is named the winner of the 2011 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
 * January 17: Four genre works win at the 69th Golden Globe Awards.
 * January 13: DC Comics ends six of its comics series.
 * January 12: American author Howard Hopkins dies at 50.
 * January 11: The winners of the 38th People's Choice Awards are announced.
 * January 10: Star Wars: Underworld is announced as the working title of the upcoming live-action TV series in the franchise.
 * January 10: The 500th episode of the long-running series The Simpsons is set to air in February.
 * January 10: The nominees for the 2011 Philip K. Dick Award are announced.
 * January 9: Wizards of the Coast seeks to crowdsource the upcoming 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game.
 * January 9: Four speculative fiction TV series pilots are given the green light by NBC.
 * January 9: Joe R. Lansdale and Rick Hautala are named recipients of the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.
 * January 9: American author Gene Wolfe wins the first Fuller Award for "outstanding lifetime contribution to literature."
 * January 9: Photos from the first science fiction convention, held in Leeds in 1937, are now available online.
 * January 6: A Las Vegas-area brothel will feature "alien" women.
 * January 6: The Horror Writers Association announces a sponsor for the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award.
 * January 5: Boxoffice announces that speculative fiction films dominated the top spots for 2011 domestic box office grosses.
 * January 5: The final nominees for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects are announced.
 * January 4: Richard Alf, founder of San Diego Comic-Con International, dies at 59.
 * January 1: Bob Anderson, film fight choreographer and stunt double during Darth Vader's lightsaber battles in the original three Star Wars films, dies at 89.