The Visual Effects Society released the nominations for the 2023 VES Awards on January 17. The awards recognize outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in features, animation, television, commercials and video games, and the VFX Supervisors, VFX Producers and hands-on Artists who … Continue reading
(1) THE ORVILLE RETURNING. The second season of The Orville premieres December 30 on Fox. THE ORVILLE is a live-action, one-hour space adventure series set 400 years in the future that follows The Orville, a mid-level exploratory spaceship. Its crew, … Continue reading
(1) RETRO HUGO FAN CATEGORY RESOURCE. Joe Siclari and the FANAC Fan History Project are providing support to Dublin 2019 Retro Hugo voters: The nomination forms have gone out for Dublin 2019’s Retro Hugo awards for works published in 1943. … Continue reading
Samuel Delany is SFWA’s pick for the 2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. This is a long-deserved honor for someone who has been one of sf’s most dynamic and gifted writers since the 1960s. The winner of four Nebulas and two Hugos, … Continue reading
Mainstream news websites usually do this kind of retrospective at the end of each year. Few fan newswriters do, but seeing Michael Hinman at Airlock Alpha have so much fun with his edition I decided to give it a whirl. It’s not a ha-ha kind of fun, for … Continue reading