GUFF administrators are calling for nominations for the 2024 race to send a fan from Oceania to the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland (8-12 August, 2024) GUFF is the Get Up and Over (or Going Under) Fan Fund which transports SF … Continue reading
Voting has begun in the first 2024 European Fan Fund race. Jane Mondrup from Denmark and Joro Penchev from Bulgaria are candidates to become the EFF delegate to the 2024 Eurocon in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from August 16-19 . Balloting will continue until … Continue reading
European Fan Fund administrators Matylda Naczyńska and Marcin Kłak Nominations are taking nominations for the second annual EFF race until January 25, 2024. The purpose of the European Fan Fund is to create and strengthen bonds between European fans and … Continue reading
Voting has begun in the first European Fan Fund race. Matylda Naczyńska from Poland and James Shields from Ireland are candidates to become the EFF delegate to the 2023 Eurocon in Uppsala, Sweden. . Balloting will continue until April 10 at 23:59 … Continue reading
By Marcin “Alqua” Klak: The European Fan Fund (EFF) transports European SF fans to Eurocons. The purpose of the fan fund is to create and strengthen bonds between European fans and fandoms. Currently in almost every country there is a … Continue reading
(1) F&SF COVER REVEAL. The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction’s March/April 2022 cover art is by Mondolithic Studios, illustrating “Dancing Litle Marionettes” by Megan Beadle. (2) LUCKY SEVEN. Martha Wells discusses “The Nebula Nomination Decline” at My Flying Lizard Circus. By dropping out … Continue reading
(1) MACHADO ON BOOK BANS. Carmen Maria Machado has an op-ed in today’s New York Times: “Banning My Book Won’t Protect Your Child”. … Book bans in America are nothing new. As long as there have been writers, there have … Continue reading
(1) NEW BEOWULF. Maria Dahvana Headley’s “new, feminist translation of Beowulf“ was released today by Macmillan. Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical … Continue reading
(1) NASFIC FAN FUND AUCTION. Michael J. Lowrey makes a last-minute appeal: We still need items for auction pretty desperately: books, fanzines, tuckerizations, fannish memorabilia, whatever, for the Virtual FanFund Auction at the virtual NASFIC on Facebook.” Post items there. … Continue reading
Erin Underwood has won the 2020 Down Under Fan Fund and will become its new North American Administrator. DUFF co-administrator Paul Weimer reports 60 ballots were cast. One of the ballots did not contain any voting information and the donation … Continue reading