A Call for Papers has been issued for a “Worldcon 76 Academic Track”: Deadline for submissions: February 5, 2018 Full name / name of organization: The 76th World Science Fiction Convention Contact email: [email protected] Science fiction always plays a part … Continue reading
(1) SUPERSJW? The forthcoming issue of Action Comics is in the news — “Superman Protects Undocumented Workers From Armed White Supremacist in Latest Comic”. The Hollywood Reporter has the story. The moment in the book released Wednesday comes a week … Continue reading
The Dragon Awards winners were announced today at Dragon Con in Atlanta. Dragon Con President Pat Henry told the audience there were around 8,000 final ballots, twice as many as last year (although no voting statistics were released last year.) … Continue reading
San Jose announced new Guests of Honor John Picacio and Frank Hayes during the “Future Worldcons” panel today in Helsinki. One of the field’s most celebrated artists, John Picacio is a 12-time Hugo nominee (with two wins) and a 10-time … Continue reading
(1) ANOTHER MASTERPIECE OF CONRUNNING. Mothership says Akiba Town, held this weekend in Singapore and which markets itself as a “Japanese culture event bringing in official anime merchandise along with fan artists and guest cosplayers” — was a mess: “S’pore-organised cosplay event riddled … Continue reading
(1) MINIONS GETTING PAID. The Seattle law firm Rekhi & Wolk, P.S. sends word they have settled the class action they were litigating against Emerald City Comicon (See Scroll for 5/18/16, item #13). Former volunteer Jerry Brooks alleged Emerald City … Continue reading
(1) ZENO’S MARTIAN THEOREM. You can’t get to Mars before you…“The first trip to Mars will come with the longest layover ever” Nobody likes layovers, but the first astronauts heading to Mars will get to experience one of the longest … Continue reading
February is Women in Horror Month and every day the Horror Writers Association blog is running a Q&A with an award-winning woman member. Here are the highlights of the third week. Rain Graves –February 15 Talk about winning the award … Continue reading
By Nicholas Whyte and Colette Fozard: Over the last two weeks of October 2016, Worldcon 75 organised the 1980 Timewarp Project to test the new systems we have been developing for the new Hugo rules.We asked people to revisit of the sf … Continue reading
By Carl Slaughter: Speculative novelizer Greg Cox does Star Trek. Lots of Star Trek. Original series, 7 novels; Khan and Q, 3 each; Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space 9, one each. His Captain to Captain, the first in a … Continue reading