The winner and shortlist for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award’s Best Novel category were announced today at Gaylaxicon 2016. The award honors outstanding works of science fiction, fantasy and horror which include significant positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, … Continue reading
The 2018 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel was announced November 24 at Chessiecon in Timonium, MD. The award’s Best Short Fiction and Best Other Work categories have been rolled over to the 2019 awards cycle. The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards … Continue reading
The 2017 Gaylactic Spectrum Award winner in the Best Novel category was announced at Gaylaxicon 2018 in May 2018. Only the novel award was announced. The Best Short Fiction and Best “Other Works” categories have been rolled over into the … Continue reading
(1) AWARDS AT AUSSIE NATCON. Opening night at Continuum 15, the Australian National Convention, saw Lucy Sussex and Julian Warner win a special prize for their services to the Nova Mob and Melbourne fandom generally. The committee also presented Bruce … Continue reading
(1) WORLDCON 75 BONUS. 2017 Worldcon Vice-chair Colette H. Fozard sent an update about the printed souvenir books people are looking forward to receiving. We have the list of people to send the printed souvenir book to, and we’re sorry … Continue reading
(1) HONEST POSTERS. “If 2016’s Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth” they’d be very funny. Courtesy of Shiznit. (2) A TOP TEN WITH FANGS. Here’s Fantasy Faction’s ingenious list – “Top Ten Wolves In Fantasy”. How come I never do … Continue reading
(1) CHENGDU WORLDCON ROUNDUP. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] RiverFlow update He posted to Twitter this morning (UK time), and a couple of people have since told me that he’s doing better now. Best Short Story finalist Lu Ban’s Hugo photos Not … Continue reading
(0) The Scroll is light because I had a medical appointment and also took some time to write the BasedCon post. Will make it up to you tomorrow! (1) THE APPLAUSE METER. [Item by Mike Kennedy.] Apparently a five minute … Continue reading
(1) UNDERSTANDING A SOCIAL MEDIA SUCCESS STORY. [Item by Cora Buhlert.] Grace P. Fong explains how Twitter’s algorithm caused that Bigolas Dickolas tweet to go viral: “This is How Bigolas Dickolas Won the Twitter”. …Basically, I think this not a … Continue reading
(1) EARLY 2023 AWARDS WARNING. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] The SF2 Concatenation has just tweeted its annual, internal poll as to the Best Science Fiction Books and Films of the Year. This is just a bit of informal fun … Continue reading