The Mythopoeic Society has announced the finalists for the 2017 Mythopoeic Awards. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Andrea Hairston, Will Do Magic For Small Change (Aqueduct Press, 2016) Mary Robinette Kowal, Ghost Talkers (Tor, 2016) Patricia A. McKillip, Kingfisher … Continue reading
By Nicholas Whyte and Colette Fozard: Over the last two weeks of October 2016, Worldcon 75 organised the 1980 Timewarp Project to test the new systems we have been developing for the new Hugo rules.We asked people to revisit of the sf … Continue reading
(1) HAPPY TENTH BIRTHDAY. Neil Clarke has a great article about the birth of Clarkesworld — Clarkesworld Turns Ten – Part Four – The Beginning. A lot of people were willing to provide advice. The most common thoughts were “don’t do … Continue reading
The Mythopoeic Society has released the finalists for the 2016 Mythopoeic Awards. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced during Mythcon 47, August 5-8 in San Antonio. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the … Continue reading
(1) HOLD ONTO YOUR KAIJU! Scified says Toho’s Godzilla Resurgence will not be released in North American cinemas. As it stands currently, it doesn’t look like Toho’s Shin-Gojira (dubbed Godzilla Resurgence for us Westerners) will be making its way to the … Continue reading
(1) THEMES. For the next 29 days, BBC has the concert celebrating the music of Barry Gray available for free listening — “The Music of Barry Gray” Stuart presents the iconic music of TV composer Barry Gray performed by Charles … Continue reading
(1) Put together “William Shatner” and “flying” and I’m going to think of the “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” episode of The Twilight Zone. Not Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond — he thinks of a different Shatner role when he … Continue reading
Lions roar, kittens tweet, and other animals make noise in today’s Scroll. (1) Recommended – Gregory Benford reviews Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora in “Envision Starflight Failing”. Aurora depicts a starship on a long voyage to Tau Ceti four centuries from now. … Continue reading
Christopher Mitchell, a premier C. S. Lewis scholar, former director the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College and, for the past year, a professor in Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute, passed away unexpectedly on July 10. He was 63. … Continue reading
Diana Pavlac Glyer lectures about “C.S. Lewis’s Fingerprints on the Map of Middle-Earth” in the Wade Center at Wheaton College at 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 20. The topic of her talk is based on her study of collaboration among the … Continue reading