By Ersatz Culture: (Note: All the following text extracts are machine translations from Chinese, using a mixture of Google and DeepL tools. Some minor manual edits have been made, but there are minimal attempts to try to decipher the meaning … Continue reading
By Ersatz Culture: The fan organization that oversees the Japanese national sf convention recently posted videos of the 2023 Chengdu Worldcon to their YouTube channel. These are a mix of business meeting sessions, the Hugo Awards, and Closing Ceremonies.
By Ersatz Culture: [Via SF Light Year’s Weibo post, which is where the images accompanying this item are sourced from, although some in turn seem to have originated at the dyy822izv0vq Douyin account] On March 2, the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum … Continue reading
By Ersatz Culture: I was super-happy that Rcade wrote up the Smofcon “What can we learn from Chengdu?” panel, as this was something that I felt definitely needed doing, but it wasn’t a task that I relished taking on personally. However, … Continue reading
By Rcade: At the 2021 Worldcon in Washington D.C., a sponsorship by Raytheon caused such a furious backlash that convention chair Mary Robinette Kowal apologized and announced that the con was donating an equal amount to an organization devoted to … Continue reading
By Ersatz Culture. IN THE GUARDIAN.The Guardian’s report “Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors” includes quotes from Xiran Jay Zhao and Paul Weimer. …No reason was given for the exclusions, which were only revealed on … Continue reading
Dave McCarty’s Facebook page is where some are trying – without success – to get full explanations for the ineligibility rulings in the 2023 Hugo Nomination Report released on January 20. McCarty, a Chengdu Worldcon vice-chair and co-head of the … Continue reading
The official Hugo Awards website posted the 2023 Hugo nomination voting statistics today. Detailed statistics for the nominating and final ballots are available in the 2023 Hugo Award Stats Final PDF file. The document includes several unexplained rulings by the … Continue reading
Guess who’s coming for Szechuan sauce? Russian author Sergey Lukyanenko dropped a Rick and Morty reference at the end of his blog post announcing that the Chengdu Worldcon committee is bringing him to China in December. At the beginning of … Continue reading
By Chris M. Barkley: When I was cordially invited to attend the 81st World Science Fiction Convention by the Chengdu Science Fiction Society and its Worldcon Committee this past summer, I made a decision to keep a diary of the … Continue reading