By Mark L. Blackman: The night of Tuesday, April 28, 2015 featured a special event, a “hybrid” of the New York Review of Science Fiction Readings and an episode of Jim Freund’s WBAI-FM radio program, Hour of the Wolf. The world’s longest-running … Continue reading
Loncon 3 will spread the Hugo presentations over two evenings, giving the Retro Hugos on Thursday, August 14 and the Hugo Awards on Sunday, August 17. The committee announced today that the Retro Hugo Awards ceremony will be co-hosted by … Continue reading
(1) VINTAGE OR VINEGAR? At Young People Read Old SFF, James Davis Nicoll tasked the panel to read Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson. Click through to hear what they thought about it. Young People Read Old Hugo Finalists focuses on … Continue reading
(1) ANSWER THAT RING. Vanity Fair has a gallery of “first look” photos accompanying its article: “Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Rises: Inside ‘The Rings of Power’”. Galadriel’s world is a raging sea. Far from the wise, ethereal elven queen that Cate Blanchett … Continue reading
(1) HWA CELEBRATES LATINX HERITAGE MONTH. From September 15 through October 15 the HWA will be celebrating Latinx Heritage month in a series of interviews conducted by social media manager Sumiko Saulson. The series will begin with an introductory piece … Continue reading
By JJ: It’s that time of year again! Even though the number of books published this year – and thus the number of eligible series – is down due to the pandemic, there are still plenty of great series for … Continue reading
The shortlists for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards have been released, along with the names of the jurors who will decide the winners, which will be announced at FantasyCon in September. BEST NEWCOMER (THE SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD) Jurors: Mohsin Siddiqui, Rhian Bowley, … Continue reading
The World Fantasy Awards Association announced the final ballot for this year’s awards on July 21. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT WINNERS Megan Lindholm Howard Waldrop 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTS NOVEL Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury) Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn … Continue reading
(1) ROBOT IN MY I. Louder revisits the Seventies to find out “How Alan Parsons made I Robot, his science fiction masterpiece”. It was June 1977, and the US was being invaded by robots. Leading the charge were R2-D2, C-3PO … Continue reading
The shortlists for the 2020 British Fantasy Awards have been released by Katherine Fowler, BFA Administrator, along with the names of the jurors who will decide the winners. Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award) Jury: Martha Bradley, Stewart Hotston, Hazel … Continue reading