Jim Harmon Dies
Well-known fan Jim Harmon died February 16. I had the good luck to meet him for the first time at last year’s Loscon. Unfortunately, on the last day of the con he suffered a mild heart attack and was briefly … Continue reading
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Jim Harmon Briefly Hospitalized
Jim Harmon, well-known fan, sf writer and popular culture historian, suffered a mild heart attack on November 29 during Loscon. He now has been discharged from the hospital after several days of treatment. I met Jim for the first time … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 4/21/20 If A Pixel Walks In Dressed Like A Click And Acting As If He Owns The File, He’s A Scrollman
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(1) TWO EVENTS SHUFFLED IN RESPONSE TO PANDEMIC. KU’s Gunn Center has announced these changes: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will likely move our Science Fiction Summer program to online offerings for 2020. We are also moving this year’s Gunn Center Conference … Continue reading
June Moffatt Remembered at LASFS
By John Hertz: June’s local club was, and mine is, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. She died on May 31st. She was my longest-time friend in fandom. LASFS (to me and many, pronounced “lahss fahss”; to June’s late husband … Continue reading
2017 Hugo Award Winners
The winners of the 2017 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced by Worldcon 75 on August 11. Best Novel The Obelisk Gate, by N. K. Jemisin (Orbit Books) Best Novella Every Heart a Doorway, … Continue reading
File 770 Issue 158 Available Online
File 770 #158 (PDF file) is now online, courtesy of Bill Burns at eFanzines. Taral Wayne provides the cover art, and in “The Fanwriter’s Fanwriter” critiques the fanac of a universe that strongly resembles but doesn’t entirely overlap our own. The prolific … Continue reading
Top 10 Posts for February 2010
No explanation is required for the popularity of any post containing the talismanic names of the genre’s enfants terribles (whatever their age may be.) On the other hand, your guess is as good as mine about the extraordinary interest in … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 4/22/20 Then Curl Up On The Pile And Sleep For A While, It’s The Scrolliest Thing, It’s The Pixel Dream
(1) DRAGON CON STILL ON SCHEDULE. Dragon Con told Facebook readers today they are proceeding with plans for their Labor Day event. Many things in the world are uncertain right now. One thing isn’t: We are planning to throw one … Continue reading
Genre Dominates International Film Music Critics Association Awards Nominations 2019
The International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) today announced its nominees for excellence in musical scoring in 2019, for the 16th annual IFMCA Awards. For the first time in IFMCA history a female composer leads the field, with Icelandic composer … Continue reading
What a Difference a Day Makes
By John Hertz: (reprinted, mostly, from No Direction Home 31; written September 25th) Five centuries ago Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean (25 Sep 1513). Two centuries ago John Keats (1795-1821), not … Continue reading