The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) announced its 2023 Chesley Final Ballot on December 21. Member voting on the winners is open and ends January 10. BEST HARDBACK ILLUSTRATION https://photos.app.goo.gl/Fg8ds39CGvM2wuLG7 BEST PAPERBACK/EBOOK COVER ILLUSTRATION https://photos.app.goo.gl/5WN69faeN3mFxr7w8 BEST MAGAZINE COVER https://photos.app.goo.gl/uiArGCgYzpSMimaW6 … Continue reading
(1) TOP HORROR AUTHORS OFFER FREE CONVENTION. “Christopher Golden’s House of Last Resort Weekend” will be held January 18-21 in Portsmouth, NH. Admission is FREE with weekend hotel room reservation. Spend a weekend with your favorite scary authors in a … Continue reading
Jane Lindskold, who had three books out last year, recently shared a photo of her cats Mei-Ling and Persephone admiring Library of the Sapphire Wind. Based on a comment that those cats were awake, we decided to push the envelope even … Continue reading
Jane Lindskold, who had three books out last year, shared this photo of two of her cats — Mei-ling, the tabby in the box, and Persephone — with one of her newer books, Library of the Sapphire Wind. Photos of your … Continue reading
(1) OSCARS IN MEMORIAM VIDEO. The 95th Oscars In Memoriam tribute aired last night included Albert Brenner, Robbie Coltrane, Kirstie Alley, Gregory Jein, Christopher Tucker, Nichelle Nichols, Clayton Pinney, Angela Lansbury, Wolfgang Petersen, Carl Bell, James Caan, and Raquel Welch, and doubtless … Continue reading
(1) JUSTICE FOR SYLVIA ANDERSON. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] Last night’s BBC Radio 4 arts programme, Front Row, devoted a substantive amount of time to the airbrushing of Sylvia Anderson from Anderson productions by Gerry Anderson and then … Continue reading
(1) NEW FIRST DOCTOR ANIMATION PLANNED. The next classic Doctor Who adventure to be animated using archival fragments is the opening story of the third season, “Galaxy Four”, reports the BBC. Galaxy 4 (alternatively spelled Galaxy Four) is the mostly-missing first serial … Continue reading
(1) IT’S SF2 CONCATENATION TIME. [Item by Jonathan Cowie.] SF2 Concatenation’s Autumnal edition is now up. Principal contents include: Newscast for the Summer 2020. This includes within it many key sections covering science. See the master newscast link index that connects … Continue reading
By JJ: To assist Hugo nominators, listed below are the series believed to be eligible as of this writing for the 2021 Best Series Hugo next year *†. Each series name is followed by the main author name(s) and the … Continue reading
(1) READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP. On the last day of CoNZealand, Jenny Hammond posted to Discord a verse about attending the first virtual Worldcon. Five days of insanityOh the humanityI click on a roomIt refuses to ZoomI say words of … Continue reading