Ellen Klages’ “Message From The Future”
Fans at WisCon 39 last night enjoyed a video message sent to them from the future by former Tiptree auctioneer Ellen Klages, who was simultaneously channeling Hari Seldon and Maude Frickert….
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Ellen Klages Ends a Tiptree Era
After 20 years as WisCon’s Tiptree auctioneer, Ellen Klages is passing the torch. She recalls how it all began in a nostalgic post on the convention’s blog: In 1994, on the weekend of my 40th birthday, I was in Worcester, … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 5/16/24 The First Thing We Do, Let’s Scroll All The Pixels
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(1) THE SHARP END OF SCIENCE FICTION. At Reactor, James Davis Nicoll delivers a highly scientific “Ranking of Science Fiction’s Most Dangerous Awards”. … Most awards are woefully unfit as weapons3. Authors with a mantlepiece loaded with award trophies would … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 9/21/23 Dammit, Jetpack! I’m A Pixel Not A Scroll Deliverer
(1) BIGGER ON THE INSIDE. If you can’t get somebody to give you this as a gift over the coming holidays you’ll have to buy it yourself. Because how could you not own it? “Doctor Who: Limited Edition Complete New … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 7/9/23 Most Of Us Agree That Everyone Knows That Bacon Holds The Pixels Together
(1) HOW THE BESTSELLER LIST IS WON. Several authors responded to Sarah Pinborough’s question about whether certain kinds of sales affect the UK bestseller lists. (2) THE FUTURE IS NOW. “’It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 5/26/23 Pixels Get Ready, There’s A Scroll A-Coming
(1) BRADBURY MUSEUM CLOSING. The Ray Bradbury Experience Museum in his hometown of Waukegan, IL is shutting down this month they announced today on Facebook. In 2017 a group of dedicated volunteers came together to honor Ray Bradbury in his … Continue reading
2021 Otherwise Award Winners Announced
The Otherwise Award winners for 2021 are Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki and Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. The Otherwise Award (formerly known as the Tiptree Award) honors stories that expose the many ways we experience gender in this world and others. The … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 9/21/22 She Took The Midnight Train To Arcturus
(1) ANTHEM LAUNCH. [Item by Martin Morse Wooster.] In the Washington Post, classical music critic Michael Andor Brodeur discusses the new Space Force anthem by Jamie Teachenor and Sean Nelson, and lets his father make a dad joke that the … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 7/9/22 Pixeled In The Scroll By A Chuck Tingle Pixel Scroll Title
(1) CULTURAL INSIGHTS INTO A MULTIVERSE. [Item by Soon Lee.] This terrific article by S. Qiouyi Lu explores many aspects of Everything Everywhere All at Once from a Chinese-American perspective that might not be immediately apparent to a Western viewer. … Continue reading
2020 Otherwise Award
The 2020 Otherwise Award winner is Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki for “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon” (in Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora, edited by Zelda Knight and Ekpeki Donald Oghenechovwe, Aurelia Leo, 2020). This … Continue reading