(1) TIME TO PANIC. Nominations for the 2022 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer close at 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7), today, March 15, 2022. If this was a … Continue reading
By James H. Burns: You can keep your Robby, and Gort, and even your C-3PO… Because the first robot of my childhood appeared as a chocolate syrup container: CLANKY. Beginning sometime around 1963, Clanky was a product from Family Foods … Continue reading
By Andrew Porter: I tried to get a press pass for Book Expo America, coming up the end of this month, but couldn’t qualify. Apparently when I send links and news items to the people, news blogs and interested parties … Continue reading
(1) INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO HUGO AWARDS CENSORSHIP REPORT. Chris M. Barkley and Jason Sanford’s report “The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion” (also available at Genre Grapevine and as an e-book epub file and as a PDF) has sparked the attention … Continue reading
(1) Just got word my mother’s going back to the hospital this afternoon. So if you have suggestions for links that belonged in today’s Scroll, I welcome them in comments. (2) TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS. [Compiled by Cat Eldridge.] [Thanks to Mike … Continue reading
(1) MEDICAL UPDATE. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki told Facebook readers he had a health emergency this week: Was very sick day before yesterday. Had a health emergency, was fighting for my life all the previous night and that morning after … Continue reading
(1) COURT DECISION CURBS A LONGTIME COPYRIGHT REQUIREMENT. [Item by Anne Marble.] In 2018, print-on-demand publisher Valancourt Books sued the U.S. Copyright Office because of the “mandatory deposit” requirement — which required the publisher to send U.S. Copyright Office copies … Continue reading
Editor John R. Douglas, who is being honored with a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award this year, died August 3. Douglas, an influential editor in the sff field for several decades, began his career at Berkley in 1978. He later … Continue reading
(1) WRITER LOSES EYE TO GUN VIOLENCE; FUNDRAISER STARTED. Sff author Jessie Kwak of Portland, OR was severely injured in a drive-by shooting last weekend while leaving the Mississippi Street Fair. “Author shot in eye near Mississippi Street Fair in … Continue reading
(1) NAILED TO THE INTERNET DOOR. Finding that professional organizations aren’t moving quickly enough, Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke has drafted his own “AI statement”. I’ve complained that various publishing industry groups have been slow to respond to recent developments in … Continue reading