As reported here the other day, people have been working to repair and digitize Debbie King’s two audio tapes of the Suncon (1977) Worldcon Hugo Ceremony. Now that Hobbit from Techno-Fandom has repaired the first tape, the contents of both are … Continue reading
An audio recording of the Hugo Awards ceremony at Suncon, the 1977 Worldcon, has been digitized and placed online by Michael Kerpan. Hear the youthful voice of Robert Silverberg as he doles out the rockets! https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43868329/77Hugos-Tape2Side1.mp3 This is the second of two tapes … Continue reading
(1) HUGO SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT COMING ON FRIDAY. The Glasgow 2024 committee will announce the Hugo finalists at Eastercon. (2) BUTCHER WILL MISS NORWESCON 46. Writer guest of honor Jim Butcher has contracted COVID-19 and will be unable to travel to … Continue reading
(1) CITY TECH SF SYMPOSIUM. The Program and Registration for the 8th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium on Science Fiction, Gender, and Sexuality will be held on Thursday, November 30, 2023 from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m Eastern (GMT/UTC -5 hours) … Continue reading
(1) R’LYEH AND PUPPIES. Francis Gooding’s review of The World We Make includes comments placing it in recent genre history: “Slimed It: On N.K. Jemisin” in The London Review of Books. …The backstory to this battle with Cthulhu was widely … Continue reading
(1) WORLDCON VENUE CONSTRUCTION REPORT. A Weibo user posted a video showing progress at the Chengdu Science and Technology Museum and Science Fiction Museum construction site. Here is a screencap from the video. (2) WHEN FACEBOOK IS OUT OF TUNE. Somtow … Continue reading
(1) DRAGON PRESERVATION SOCIETY? A Twitter user with 90K followers who goes by the handle Aristophanes claims to be incensed that works like John Scalzi’s Kaiju Preservation Society become Dragon Award finalists. As a remedy he is calling for people … Continue reading
(1) NYT MARKS TWO DISASTER VICTIMS’ SFF CONNECTION. Two of the people who died aboard a submersible that imploded near the Titanic wreckage, Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, had an interest in sff, and the elder Dawood was a … Continue reading
(1) NICK FURY. The official trailer for Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion series dropped today. It streams June 21 on Disney+. (2) STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS BEFORE. “Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary Has a Big Idea He Thinks Will Help … Continue reading
(1) X-MEN GO POSTAL. The Royal Mail marked the 60th anniversary of X-Men by releasing an issue of 17 stamps on February 16. …The 12 stamps in the main set are all original illustrations and have been created exclusively for … Continue reading