By Jo Van Ekeren: This past weekend, ConFusion 2021 (Eastercon) was held as a virtual convention. Guests of Honour were author Dan Abnett, author and editor Nik Vincent-Abnett, and fan Dave Lally. The online environment was primarily in an application … Continue reading
Dogs of War, edited by Fred Patten, is launching at Further Confusion 2017 in San Jose, California over the January 12-16 five-day weekend. Dogs of War is an all-original anthology of 23 short stories and novelettes of anthropomorphic animals (not … Continue reading
Fred Patten’s new anthology Cats and More Cats; Feline Fantasy Fiction is launching at Further Confusion 2016 in San Jose over the January 14-18 weekend. Cats and More Cats is a reprint anthology containing 14 short stories and novelettes of … Continue reading
Hugo Graphic Story nominee Ursula Vernon is the first Guest of Honor announced for Further Confusion 2013. Vernon is the author and illustrator of Nurk, Digger, and her cover for Best in Show (edited by Fred Patten) won the Ursa Major … Continue reading
(1) TOMLINSON AND ROBINSON SUE MILWAUKEE. In February, Patrick Tomlinson and his partner, Niki Robinson filed a lawsuit against the City of Milwaukee over the multiple instances of swatting: “Robinson v. City of Milwaukee, 2:24-cv-00264”. At the link you can … 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
[Warning: lots of spoilers here. I mean lots.] Review by Cat Eldridge: Ah, to visit John Carter and the inhabitants of Barsoom, Edger Rice Burroughs’ richly-imagined Mars. The characters in Robert Heinlein’s The Number of The Beast did so in their … Continue reading
Review by Paul Weimer: This Mortal Mountain is the third of the six-volume NESFA collection of the work of Roger Zelazny. Again, to get an overview of the project in progress and my thoughts on it, I commend you to comments in … Continue reading
Unburdening Myself of Unfinished Business By Chris M. Barkley: ITEM ONE: As we emerge from the cold and cloudless days of January and February, you would think that the prospect of sunny days, baseball, international football (soccer), the open swimming … Continue reading
By James Bacon: I cannot actually recall exactly when I saw the episode “The High Ground”, but I am sure it was in Malahide, County Dublin, at Ireland’s greatest Star Trek convention, Timewarp, held on the 6th and 7th of … Continue reading