(1) COMPLAINTS AS FANIMECON DROPS MASKING REQUIREMENT AT LAST MINUTE. [Item by Janice Gelb.] FanimeCon in San Jose made the following announcement on May 12, 12 days before the con starts, and is refusing to provide refunds to people who … Continue reading
(1) LITERARY DIVE. Juliette Wade and her Dive Into Worldbuilding team interview “Caroline Ratajski”. There’s a detailed synopsis you can read at the link, and a video recording you can see on YouTube. …We asked how writing a chapter every … Continue reading
(1) WHO TO LISTEN TO. Nicholas Whyte enthusiastically reviews four audio Doctor Who stories in “Jenny – the Doctor’s Daughter”. Big Finish have scored a major coup by persuading Georgia Tennant to return to her brief role as Jenny, the … Continue reading
(1) BEWARE STOLEN VALOR. Cat Rambo issued a warning on Facebook today: Be aware if you’re publicly claiming that you’re a former Nebula nominee or winner, and you can’t back that up, SFWA is going to come after you like a … Continue reading
David Langford’s collection Different Kinds of Darkness, now available in ebook form, gathers his “straight” sf, fantasy and horror short fiction. Taking its name from the title of Langford’s 2001 Hugo-winning short story, the book contains all the material from … Continue reading
(1) TOMLINSON CRITICIZES PENGUINCON FOR CAVING TO HIS CYBERSTALKERS. In “PenguiCon 2024 Postmortem or How Not to Handle Cyberstalking”, Patrick S. Tomlinson explains how he was disinvited from a convention – one he didn’t originally apply to present at, until … Continue reading
The Glasgow 2024 Worldcon committee today announced the finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards. 1720 valid nominating ballots were received and counted from the members of the 2023 and 2024 World Science Fiction Conventions for the 2024 Hugo Awards. Voting … Continue reading
(1) THE THOUGHT PANZER PROBLEM. [Item by Doctor Science.] “Netflix blockbuster ‘3 Body Problem’ divides opinion and sparks nationalist anger in China” reports CNN. A Netflix adaptation of wildly popular Chinese sci-fi novel “The Three-Body Problem” has split opinions in China … Continue reading
(1) SIGN FROM A FELINE. Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Rude Litterbox Space” is a free read at Sunday Morning Transport to encourage people to subscribe. Bonnie McDaniel says it is based on the author’s real-life communication-board-using cat. … Language was hard. … Continue reading
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts unveiled the BAFTA Awards 2024 nominations on January 18. Two films of genre interest lead the field, Oppenheimer with 13 nominations and Poor Things with 11. And another, Barbie, picked up five … Continue reading