The Science Fiction Research Association announcing the names of the organization’s 2022 award winners on July 1. SUPPORT A NEW SCHOLAR AWARD Anastasia Klimchynskaya MARY KAY BRAY AWARD The Mary Kay Bray Award is given for the best essay, interview, or … Continue reading
The Science Fiction Research Association ended its virtual meeting this year by announcing the names of the organization’s 2021 award winners. SUPPORT A NEW SCHOLAR AWARD Guangzhao Lyu SPECULATIVE FICTIONS AND CULTURES OF SCIENCE BOOK AWARD Melody Jue for Wild Blue Media … Continue reading
The Science Fiction Research Association, unable to meet in person this year, has posted the names of the award winners they would have acknowledged at the annual banquet. SFRA Award for Lifetime Contributions to SF Scholarship (Originally the Pilgrim Award.) The … Continue reading
(1) CLARKESWORLD UNCOVERED. Neil Clarke told Facebook readers about an exasperating discovery that they had violated their no-AI policy, and what he was going to do about it. Much to our embarrassment, evidence suggesting that our most recent cover was … Continue reading
(1) LESSING’S LETTERS. [Item by Jeffrey Smith.] In between her biographies of Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree and the in-progress one of Ursula Le Guin, Julie Phillips has written a study of motherhood and creativity, The Baby on the Fire Escape. Slate … Continue reading
(1) HUGO VOTING AND PACKET UPDATE. DisCon III addressed Facebook readers’ questions about when online Hugo voting will be available. Some of you have been asking about the Hugo voting links so, here’s what’s happening: Hugo voting links won’t appear … Continue reading
(1) ASTRONAUTS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED. The LA Times has details: “New era of spaceflight dawns as SpaceX sends NASA astronauts into orbit”. For the first time in nine years, NASA astronauts launched to orbit from U.S. soil. And for the first … Continue reading
Academic, activist and author Elizabeth Anne Hull died August 3 from complications a few months after falling and fracturing her hip. She was 84. Hull served as President of the Science Fiction Research Association from 1989-90, after editing the SFRA … Continue reading
(1) FIGHT TO THE FINISH. Unbound Worlds, the Penguin Random House website for sff fans, is running Cage Match 2018: Creature Feature, a March Madness-style original fiction bracket tournament. For the first time, Cage Match will feature an all non-human … Continue reading