John-Henri Holmberg, a Worldcon 75 guest of honor, is among the 2018 winners of De Nios översättarpris, the translation prize given by Sweden’s Samfundet De Nio (The Nine Society.) The winners were announced at the literary society’s awards meeting on … Continue reading
Terry Pratchett and John-Henri Holmberg were on consecutive episodes of BBC Radio4’s Front Row Daily last week, now available as podcasts. Terry Pratchett on the 40th Discworld novel [MP3 file] John-Henri Holmberg on translating and editing a collection of Swedish … Continue reading
The European Science Fiction Society presented the 2023 ESFS Achievement Awards, ESFS Hall of Fame Awards, Chrysalis Awards and European Grandmaster Award at Konflikt, the 2023 Eurocon, on June 11 in Uppsala, Sweden. (The English-language descriptions come from the ESFS website.) THE … Continue reading
By Rich Lynch: Today we celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Harry Warner, Jr., who was perhaps the best-known stay-at-home science fiction fan of all time. Harry was a lifelong resident of Hagerstown, Maryland and a fan … Continue reading
(1) FOR ALL MANKIND. There’s a lot of information available about Season 2 of Apple TV+’s alternate history of the space race For All Mankind – only I didn’t locate a release date. Take a guided tour of For All … Continue reading
From the moment you read this until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on January 12, you can help decide which North American fan is going to attend Concentric: Eastercon 2020, in Birmingham, UK as the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegate. The candidates … Continue reading
(1) TIPTREE AWARD CONTROVERSY. While I can’t say I located the ultimate roots of the discussion, I found Carrie Cuinn’s thread, which starts here. There are more comments in Natalie Luhrs’ thread, starting here. Today Sweden’s John-Henri Holmberg countered challenges … Continue reading
The 2019 FAAn Awards were presented today at Corflu FIAWOL in Rockville, Maryland. Here are the awards results posted on Facebook by convention chair Michael Dobson. BEST FANZINE 2019 FAAn Awards — Trophy for Best Fanzine WINNER – Banana Wings … Continue reading
(1) FUTURE TENSE. This month’s entry in the Future Tense Fiction series is “The Song Between Worlds” by Indra Das, author of the award-winning novel The Devourers. Each month, Future Tense Fiction—a series of short stories from Future Tense and … Continue reading
The 2019 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund Race to send a North American fan to the Dublin Worldcon next August is now on! Voting runs from today, December 1, to April 22, 2019. The candidates are Teresa Cochran, Sarah Gulde, Michael Lowrey, … Continue reading