By Bill Higgins: 1978 was a good year for me and, apparently, a good year for starting fanzines. Congratulations on celebrating File 770‘s fortieth anniversary! And last Friday I noticed that Issue Number 1998 of MT Void had slipped into … Continue reading
(1) THE PHENOMENA BEHIND LEGENDS. Kim Huett has added two new posts to Doctor Strangemind. The first is about the Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio transmission: “The Great Radio Hoax”. As appealing as I find the idea of Wells’ … Continue reading
(1) RECURSIVE NEWS. The Large Hadron Collider gets a pixel tracker. Officials said the replacement of a key component inside the CMS experiment represented the first major upgrade to the LHC – the world’s biggest machine. Engineers have been carefully … Continue reading
The YouTube Fanhistory Channel has added a selection of videos from Worldcons of the 1970s and 1980s. Ms Marian’s Bedtime Story 11 minute video. MidAmeriCon, the 34th World SF Convention, was held in Kansas City in 1976. This entertaining video, framed … Continue reading
(1) SITH PACK. Michael J. Martinez continues his Star Wars rewatch reviews in “Star Wars wayback machine: Revenge of the Sith” It’s the final piece of the Star Wars prequel trilogy and — perhaps unsurprisingly — Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the … Continue reading
(1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens character posters are out. (2) The WTF Bad Science Fiction Covers took a detour to Canadian sci-fi and comics. Batman and Robin fail to prevent yet another Mountie murder due to their fondness for … Continue reading
Praise, complaints and tales of derring-didn’t fill the Scroll today. (1) George Barr, Fan Guest of Honor at MidAmeriCon, the 1976 Worldcon, unexpectedly popped up in a soft-sell blog entry for PR firm Signal Hill, “Science Fiction Illustrator Finds Home” … Continue reading
Here are 9 developments of interest to fans. (1) The end of world is coming next week, say those who have placed their faith in the Mayan calendar. Among them are several Chinese men who have constructed arks for riding out … Continue reading
Sam Lubell thinks the question Does Being GoH Tilt the Playing Field? will be answered more accurately by using statistics that isolate the Worldcon GoHs’ records as Hugo nominees before they were announced as guests and may have gotten the benefit of publicity. Let’s see what we learn. Parameters: First, only GoHs who received … Continue reading
Janice Gelb says she wishes Worldcon GoHs would recuse themselves from the Hugo Awards too: Personally, I wish more authors had this sense of nicety — I think that authors who are GoHs of a worldcon should not accept nominations. … Continue reading