Gene Wolfe died April 14 after a long battle with heart disease. Acknowledged as one of the field’s finest writers, his honors included a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention in 1996, induction to the Science Fiction Hall … Continue reading
(1) WIRED DOES A JOB ON SANDERSON. In his WIRED article: “Brandon Sanderson Is Your God”, Jason Kehe slags Sanderson, his writing, his fans, his business, his religion, his taste in movie musicals, and anything else that comes to mind — and … Continue reading
Gene Wolfe’s wife, Rosemary, died on December 14 following a lengthy illness. She was 82. [Thanks to Steven H Silver and SF Site News for the story.]
Steven H Silver took these photos of Gene Wolfe and Peter Sagal riding the carousel during the festivities at this past Saturday evening’s Fuller Award ceremony.
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will present Gene Wolfe with the first Fuller Award for lifetime achievement in literature at a banquet to be held March 17 reports SF Site. [Thanks to Steven H Silver and Andrew Porter for … Continue reading
I was glad to discover “WolfeWiki.” I would have been even more glad if creators of this site devoted to Gene Wolfe’s fiction felt qualified to offer the “‘correct’ answer to the question, ‘what happened in that story, anyway?’” Do we … Continue reading
(1) UKRANIAN WOMEN IN SF. Michael Burianyk’s English-language roundtable interview with Ukrainian Science Fiction and Fantasy writers Daria Piskozub, Svitlana Taratorina, Iryna Hrabovska, Natalia Matolinets and Nataliya Dovhopol has just been published in the British Science Fiction Association blog, Vector: … Continue reading
The Helsinki Science Fiction Society has chosen the nominees for the 2024 Tähtifantasia Award, given for the best fantasy book published in Finnish during the previous year. The award jury is composed of critics Jukka Halme and Aleksi Kuutio, Osmo Määttä … Continue reading
(1) GLASGOW 2024 TOWN HALL. Register at the link for Glasgow 2024’s “Town Hall Event: Hugo, Lodestar and Astounding Awards” happening Saturday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m. BST. This event will be a Town Hall with key members of the … Continue reading
The finalists for the 2024 Kurd Laßwitz Preis were announced on April 3. The award, named after German author Kurd Laßwitz, is given to works written in or translated into the German language and published during the previous year. The ballot was … Continue reading