The World Fantasy Awards Association announced this year’s awards at WFC in Kansas City on October 29. 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWARDS NOVEL NOVELLA SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY COLLECTION ARTIST SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL SPECIAL AWARD – NON-PROFESSIONAL LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
The World Fantasy Awards administrator announced the final ballot for this year’s awards, and the Lifetime Achievement award winners, on July 25. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTS NOVEL NOVELLA SHORT FICTION ANTHOLOGY COLLECTION ARTIST SPECIAL AWARD – PROFESSIONAL … Continue reading
(1) HONORING OCTAVIA. “Pasadena’s Getting A Bookstore Named For Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler” – LAist has the good news. Pasadena is set to get another independent bookstore: Octavia’s Bookshelf. Owner Nikki High said she hopes to highlight authors who are … Continue reading
“To have power over a thing, name it. To name a thing, know it. To know a thing: become it.” — “Camouflage”, Patricia McKillip By Paul Weimer: If the world of fantasy is a series of baronies, duchies, emirates, city … Continue reading
(1) SCALING MOUNT TSUNDOKU. [Item by Olav Rokne.] Book blogger Runalong Womble has shared his TBR Reduction Challenge for 2022 in a fun little blog post that may help those of us whose bedside tables are creaking under the weight … Continue reading
(1) DAVID WEBER UPDATES. His fans are keeping each other abreast of the progress of David Weber’s COVID treatment. Ralston Stahler quoted Weber’s update about the first day in the hospital: From David Weber Well, they just admitted me to … Continue reading
(1) A CENTURY OF THE GOOD DOCTOR. This week Asimov would have been 100. James Gunn marked the occasion in an article for Science “Asimov at 100”. A case can be made that, like H. G. Wells, Asimov came along … Continue reading
(1) HUGO FOR A WAR YEAR. Cora Buhlert provides a very fine walkthrough of today’s Retro nominees in “Some Thoughts on the Hugo Award Finalists, Part I: The 1944 Retro Hugo Awards”. The most remarkable thing about the 1944 Retro … Continue reading
(1) NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON TALK SHOW PULLED. Variety’s Michael Schneider, in “Nat Geo Pulls Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s ‘Star Talk’ Amid Misconduct Allegations” says that the National Geographic Channel has suspended Neil deGrasse Tyson’s show StarTalk with only three of its … Continue reading
(1) FILIAL PROS. “For Father’s Day, 9 famous writer dads and their awesome authorial offspring” – the LA Times feature includes a segment on Stephen King, and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. View this post on Instagram A post … Continue reading