(1) SMALL WONDERS IS KICKSTARTING YEAR 2. Cislyn Smith and Stephen Granade have launched a Kickstarter to fund the year two of Small Wonders, a monthly online SFF magazine for flash fiction and poetry. For the past year, Small Wonders … Continue reading
(1) RAPHAEL HYTHLODAEUS’ UTOPIA. Go back to where Utopia began in “Utopian Realism, a speech by Bruce Sterling”. …So, Thomas More and Peter Gillis are in this private home, avoiding actual work. They enjoy many free-wheeling, private, intellectual discussions, which … Continue reading
(1) SCAM TARGETING WESTERN AUTHORS PURPORTS TO BE FROM SCIENCE FICTION WORLD. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] On Saturday May 11th, the Weibo account of Science Fiction World magazine issued a statement about fraudulent emails addressed to authors. The emails claimed that SFW … Continue reading
(1) TROUBLED DENVER EVENT WON’T REPEAT IN 2025. Anne Marble did a roundup about the complaints against Readers Take Denver in Pixel Scroll 4/22/24 item #5. On May 3 USA Today did its own story about those complaints —“Rebecca Yarros … Continue reading
(1) KUANG Q&A. In the Guardian: “Rebecca F Kuang: ‘I like to write to my friends in the style of Joan Didion’”. And cancel culture? Does it exist?I find a lot of this so disingenuous. The shape of an internet … Continue reading
(1) HOLY CATS! “Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Confirmed: Production Status & Everything We Know” at ScreenRant. Acclaimed director Greta Gerwig has been tapped to helm a new reboot of The Chronicles of Narnia, and the upcoming film series is already beginning to … Continue reading
Jack Nash from Arlington, VA, was named the 2024 Grand Prize Writer Winner and Tyler Vail from Bryan, TX was named the 2024 Illustrator Grand Prize Winner at an awards ceremony in Hollywood, CA on April 25. The event commemorated the dual anniversaries … Continue reading
The Imaginarium Convention released the 2024 Imadjinn Awards finalists on March 26. The winners selected by the jury will be announced during an awards ceremony on July 20 at the Imaginarium 2023 Convention in Louisville, KY. The 2024 Imadjinn Award Finalists in … Continue reading
(1) TOM DIGBY REMEMBERED. Long-time LASFSian Alan Frisbie shares some of his memories of Tom Digby, who died March 27. Alan Frisbie: I was saddened to hear from Paula Evans that Tom Digby had died. He was one of the … Continue reading
By RL Thornton: One of the great rediscoveries of this year has been the stories of World Fantasy Award-winner Manly Wade Wellman. In particular, his magical stories about the high Appalachian wanderer and silver-stringed guitarist John have been republished by … Continue reading