By Jo Van Ekeren: I have written this post in response to the recent voicing of support on Twitter and elsewhere for the establishment of a Best Translated Work category for the Hugo Awards, but much of what follows is … Continue reading
(1) THE ORIGINAL KTF REVIEWER. Humanities revisits “Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs”. Poe churned out reams of puff-free reviews—the Library of America’s collection of his reviews and essays fills nearly 1,500 dense pages. Few outside of Poe scholarship circles bother … Continue reading
(1) TASTING SESSION. James Davis Nicoll feeds his test subjects “Ugly Chickens” by Howard Waldrop at Young People Read Old SFF. With so many works to choose from, which of Waldrop’s stories to pick? “The Ugly Chickens” seemed like a … Continue reading
Your photographer, Daniel Dern KGB Museum in Tallinn, Estonia – a pre-convention stop Booksigning NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren Booksigning, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren Booksigning: Pat Cadigan Booksigning: Charles Stross Booksigning: Johanna Sinisalo Booksigning: Liu Cixin Hall costumes GoH session: Nalo … Continue reading
[Committee press release.] Worldcon 75 is pleased to release its preliminary schedule. The five-day event in Helsinki includes over 840 individual items and 800 hours of content. Some programme items will be held outside of the convention center, at the … Continue reading
Johanna Sinisalo’s The Core of the Sun has been selected by the Libertarian Futurist Society as the winner of the 2017 Prometheus Award for Best Novel. LFS members also voted to induct Robert Heinlein’s story “Coventry,” first published in 1940 … Continue reading
The Worldcon 75 Hugo Administrators have removed Best Fan Artist nominee Alex Garner from the Hugo ballot after being informed by him that the entirety of his published 2016 work was professional and not fan art. Nicholas Whyte, lead administrator, … Continue reading
(1) SF IN CHINA. At Amazing Stories, Shaoyan Hu highlights the developing science fiction scene in China — Science fiction is a growing phenomenon in China: the various organizations are living evidence of that. It’s not just Star Wars or … Continue reading
(1) FOR THE RECORD. Odyssey Con co-chair Alex Merrill published an official response to the departure of GoH Monica Valentinelli yesterday – filling the void left by Richard S. Russell’s retracted statement with something more socially acceptable. We, the Convention … Continue reading
The finalists for this year’s Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer were announced by Worldcon 75 on April 4. The committee received 2,464 valid nominating ballots (2,458 electronic and 6 paper) from members of the 2016, … Continue reading