Internet bidding has begun in Heritage Auctions’ Illustration Art Signature Auction which includes an array of items from the collection of the late Jerry Weist. This is HA’s second auction from his estate and will be the last substantial selection. Download the … Continue reading
This September Heritage Auctions will put up for sale Jerry Weist’s trove of sf and fantasy art, rare first editions, movie posters, fanzines, and comics collected over the course of a lifetime. The auction will be held at Heritage’s Beverly … Continue reading
Richard Matheson is interviewed in Cinefantastique about Charles Beaumont, subject of a forthcoming DVD documentary: LAWRENCE FRENCH: You and Charles Beaumont each did four scripts for Roger Corman, mostly for his Edgar Allan Poe films. The big exception was when … Continue reading
When Phoenix landed on Mars on May 25, arriving in the baggage was the Visions of Mars mini-DVD, containing the names of the members of the Planetary Society and a series of Mars images from U.S. comic strips, pulps, animation. … Continue reading
My 2022 Hugo Awards Nomination Ballot for the Best Dramatic Presentation Long and Short Form Categories By Chris M. Barkley: This year’s 80th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon 8, will mark the twentieth presentation of the Best Dramatic Presentation Long … Continue reading
(1) ANALYZING SANDERSON’S KICKSTARTER SUCCESS. Kristine Kathryn Rusch has an in-depth commentary about a seismic event in self-publishing, “Business Musings: Brandon’s Kickstarter”. … If the past is any indication, however, these big Kickstarters increase the people who watch the category … Continue reading
(1) GALAKTIKA UP TO ITS OLD TRICKS. Bence Pintér of Mandiner.sci-fi checked with the authors of translated short stories in the latest issue of Galaktika, the Hungarian prozine caught publishing overseas authors without payment. Pinter discovered — They [Galaktika] went … Continue reading