(1) ADOBE FIREFLY. [Item by Mike Kennedy.]The Verge is reporting “Adobe made an AI image generator — and says it didn’t steal artists’ work to do it”. The difference from others? Supposedly no copyrighted material was used to train the … Continue reading
The shortlist for the 35th Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year was released on June 30. The six shortlisted titles are: The Infinite – Patience Agbabi (Canongate) The Vanished Birds – Simon Jimenez (Titan) Vagabonds – … Continue reading
The finalists for the 33rd Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction literature were released on May 7. Tom Hunter, Award Director, commented: Our 6 shortlisted titles were selected from a record-breaking 124 eligible submissions, and as the imaginative breadth … Continue reading
The full list of eligible titles submitted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2019 has been posted. This is not a longlist but a tally of all the books under consideration by the judges — a record-breaking 124 books from … Continue reading
(1) NAME THAT FAHRENHEIT TEMP. “Chinese Govt. Burns Call of Cthulhu Supplement” claims Lovecraftian news site Yog-Sothoth. The main content is in the video at the link, but the intro sums up the problem this way: For many years, various … Continue reading
Voters have chosen the 2018 Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll winners from the five finalists in each category. Editor Neil Clarke made the announcement on the magazine’s website. The 2018 winners are: Best Story “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller (October) … Continue reading
Neil Clarke has unveiled the table of contents for his The Best Science Fiction of the Year – Volume 4, which features science fiction short stories/novelettes/novellas originally published in 2018. The cover art is Mack Sztaba’s “Behemoth.” Table of Contents … Continue reading
The 5 finalists for best Clarkesworld short story and cover art of 2018 are in listed in Neil Clarke’s February editorial. Clarke had this to say about the first phase: We held a two-day nomination period for the Clarkesworld Magazine … Continue reading
The full list of eligible titles submitted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2018 has been posted. This is not a longlist but a tally of all the books under consideration by the judges — 108 titles submitted by 46 … Continue reading
By James H. Burns: Recently, a television mini-series based on Arthur C. Clarke’s classic novel, Childhood’s End, debuted internationally. But if the vagaries and fortunes of Hollywood had been just a bit different, there could have been such a production, … Continue reading