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File 770 Issue #159: Anatomy of a Fanzine
Cover by Alan White for File 770 #159 The April 2011 issue of File 770 is now available in PDF. Alan White’s cover leads off Issue #159, a dramatic color tribute to Weird Tales. The art inside is by Taral, Alexis Gilliland, … Continue reading
File 770 30th Anniversary Issue
File 770’s 30th Anniversary issue is now available at eFanzines.com. Thanks to the indefatigable Bill Burns for taking time out from his Eastercon trip to post it. Here you can read John Hertz chronicling the Nippon 2007 Worldcon. There’s a classic photo … Continue reading
Top 10 Stories for April 2024
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Two stories that came out of the UK Eastercon at the end of March had enough momentum to top April’s leader board. The first, about a security decision at Eastercon, drew over a hundred comments, which is why it had … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 4/30/24 Hold Your Vibranium
(1) ANGELS IN SPITE OF AMERICA. It’s never too late to read Tobes TAFF Ting for the first time – the report of Tobes Valois’s westbound TAFF trip to the USA and the 2002 San Jose Worldcon (ConJosé) is the … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 4/25/24 Why Scroll Around Half Dead When We Can File You For Only 22 Pixels?
(1) THE EDITOR’S LIFE. Penmen Review has a two-part transcript of a panel about “The Role of the Editor in Publishing” with editors Ellen Datlow and Joe Monti, and copyeditor Deanna Hoak. Ellen Datlow: Well, I mean, short fiction is … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 4/11/24 One Scroll, Furnished In Early Pixelry
(1) IT PAYS TO BE A GENIUS OF COURSE. The Steampunk Explorer updates fans about the Girl Genius Kickstarter: Call it mad science or just good storytelling, but Phil and Kaja Foglio are blazing through Kickstarter with their latest Girl Genius … Continue reading
Pixel Scroll 4/7/24 Pixels En Scrollgalia
(1) HOLMES & WATSON. At Brandon O’Brien’s Afternoon Tea the author takes up the Elementary series: “Lapsang Souchong: Two People Who ‘Love’ Each Other”. I’ve been thinking about this topic idly in my skull for quite some time, and since … Continue reading
David Langford Wins Doc Weir Award
The Doc Weir Award for service to fandom was voted to David Langford during Levitation, Eastercon 2024, this past weekend. eFanzine’s complete history of the Doc Weir Award begins: The Doc Weir Award was set up in 1963 in memory of fan Arthur Rose (Doc) … Continue reading
Top 10 Stories for March 2024
Vernor Vinge died this month and was widely mourned — eloquently, too, by David Brin whose tribute is excerpted in File 770’s coverage, a post that went viral. Even the announcement of the Hugo finalists, always a news item of … Continue reading