(1) SEATTLE 2025 WORLDCON MEMBERSHIP RATES RISE TOMORROW. At least for a few more hours the cost of a WSFS Membership + Attending Membership Supplement for an adult over the age of 25 is $175. The other permutations are explained … Continue reading
(1) DUNE WHAT COMES NATURALLY. Pinch Spice Market offers “The Real Spice Melange” – an “organic Southwest/Tex Mex Dune Seasoning”. “He who controls the spice, controls the Universe” -Frank Herbert, Dune. Now you can control the Universe. Well, at least … Continue reading
(1) SUBSTACK MANAGEMENT CLAIMS THERE WILL BE ACTION. Casey Newton has told readers of his Substack newsletter Platformer that “Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform”. Apparently that really isn’t so broad an outcome as it sounds … Continue reading
Glasgow 2024 today announced Tanya DePass (she/her) as a Special Guest of the 2024 Worldcon. She is an award-winning games content creator and developer, and creator of the Into the Mother Lands RPG. Tanya DePass is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming and wants to … Continue reading
(1) UNFORSEEN INTERSECTION. Maya St. Clair draws a fascinating comparison between a current bestseller and Heinlein’s controversial classic in “Fourth Wing Review: Starship Troopers (for Girls!)” …Criticisms of Starship Troopers’ themes, while hyperbolic, were not entirely off-base. In Heinlein’s world, the ideal military … Continue reading
(1) NEW VONDA MCINTYRE COLLECTION. Clarion West has announced that Little Sisters and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction by Clarion West founder and life-long supporter, Vonda N. McIntyre, will be released April 23, 2024 and is available for … Continue reading
(1) CURATOR TAKES SIDES, GETS CANCELLED. An Afrofuturism-themed exhibit “chapter” is the casualty when “German Museum Shutters Curator’s Contribution Over Pro-Palestine Instagram Activity, Igniting Censorship Outcry” reports ArtNews. … On Monday, writer, professor, and curator Anaïs Duplan, who goes by … Continue reading
The School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia has a current faculty position open for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Black Speculative Writing. They have asked for help in widely circulating the announcement. The full text … Continue reading
The Village Killings & Other Novellas by Ramsey Campbell (PS Publishing, 2022) Review by Warner Holme: Ramsey Campbell’s The Village Killings & Other Novellas is more or less exactly what the name implies. Five pieces by a well-known figure in horror are … Continue reading
(1) THE ROCKETS’ GREEN LIGHT. Early this morning in Los Angeles the last of two Space Shuttle Rocket Launch Motors made their way through Exposition Park to the California Science Center. Each is 116 feet long and around 12 feet … Continue reading