The Australian Science Fiction Foundation has given the A. Bertram Chandler Award for 2020 to Dr. Gillian Polack. The A. Bertram Chandler Award, established in 1991, is Australia’s premier award for lifetime achievement in science fiction. Polack discovered fandom in … Continue reading
The winner of the GUFF 2024 race is Kat Clay of Australia. GUFF, the Get Up-and-over Fan Fund or the Going Under Fan Fund, depending on which direction it’s running, exists to provide funds to enable well-known fans from Australasia … Continue reading
The nominees for the Sidewise: Sidewise Awards for Alternate History for the calendar year 2022 were announced August 29. SHORT FORM LONG FORM The winners will be revealed at World Fantasy Con, taking place in Kansas City, Missouri the weekend of October 26-29, … Continue reading
The preliminary ballot for the Australian SF (“Ditmar”) Awards for 2023 has been made available for comment and correction before becoming final. The nominees are award-eligible works and persons first nominated by fans and members of the Australian NatCon that have been … Continue reading
The British Science Fiction Association has released the longlists of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2022. The awards are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association and by the members of the year’s … Continue reading
(1) JUSTICE FOR SYLVIA ANDERSON. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] Last night’s BBC Radio 4 arts programme, Front Row, devoted a substantive amount of time to the airbrushing of Sylvia Anderson from Anderson productions by Gerry Anderson and then … Continue reading
Chicon 8 today released an initial list of 118 confirmed Program Participants. They are in addition to the Guests of Honor Erle Korshak (who died on August 25, 2021, but will still be honored at the convention), Floyd Norman, Joe … Continue reading
(1) FOR US, THE LIVING. The announcement that Cowboy Bebop won’t get a second season prompted Ryan Proffer to start a “Save the live action cowboy bebop” petition at Change.org. “For those people who want a second (or more) of … Continue reading
DisCon III, the 2021 Worldcon being held December 15-19, sent out a series of press releases with the convention’s daily schedule. The program will present hundreds of hours of discussion panels, presentations, workshops, and classes on subjects covering all kinds … Continue reading
The preliminary ballot for the Australian SF (“Ditmar”) Awards for 2021 has been made available for comment and correction before becoming final. The nominees are award-eligible works and persons first nominated by fans and members of the Australian NatCon which have been … Continue reading