Every year I read about the San Diego Comic-Con selling out its passes as fast as people can get online – as it did again last week but with fewer complaints thanks to a new system capable of accommodating the … Continue reading
Acclaimed sf writer Geoffrey A. Landis, a R&D engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center, received the 2013 AIAA Aerospace Power Award on July 16 at a luncheon during the 11th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference (IECEC) Landis is being recognized … Continue reading
[This post is part of a series about the Starship Century Symposium held May 21-22, 2013.] Geoffrey Landis is a scientist at the NASA John Glenn Research Center working on Mars missions and on developing advanced concepts and technology for … Continue reading
Anne McCaffrey, 1994 Worldcon GoH, died at home in Ireland on November 21 shortly after suffering a stroke. She was 85. And as Locus Online reminds us — McCaffrey was the first woman to win both the Hugo and the … Continue reading
Jeffrey Catherine Jones died May 19 at the age of 67. Jones had been suffering from severe emphysema and bronchitis as well as hardening of the arteries around the heart reports Robert Weiner, a friend. Jones was once ubiquitous in the sf/fantasy field, painting … Continue reading
Comic-Con International: San Diego has announced the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2024 chosen by a panel of judges. The nominees in 32 categories reflect the wide range of material being published in the U.S. today in comics and … Continue reading
(1) BUTLER CONFERENCE AT HUNTINGTON THIS MONTH. The Huntington Library in Pasadena, CA will host a two-day conference, “Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler” on May 23-24. The year 2024 marks the beginning of the critical dystopian future … Continue reading
(1) TROUBLED DENVER EVENT WON’T REPEAT IN 2025. Anne Marble did a roundup about the complaints against Readers Take Denver in Pixel Scroll 4/22/24 item #5. On May 3 USA Today did its own story about those complaints —“Rebecca Yarros … Continue reading
Jack Nash from Arlington, VA, was named the 2024 Grand Prize Writer Winner and Tyler Vail from Bryan, TX was named the 2024 Illustrator Grand Prize Winner at an awards ceremony in Hollywood, CA on April 25. The event commemorated the dual anniversaries … Continue reading
(1) NO, NO, NOT ROGOV! Annalee Newitz calls Paul Linebarger (aka Cordwainer Smith) “The Sci-Fi Writer Who Invented Conspiracy Theory” in The Atlantic. …Linebarger, who died of a heart attack in 1966 at age 53, could not have predicted that … Continue reading