Redshirts. Classic Star Trek fans know them as the expendable security personnel on the away team who are prone to be dramatically killed by hazard of the week — whatever threat the show’s real stars will have to overcome before … Continue reading
Does every New York Times bestselling author get profiled in the paper? Somehow I doubt that, so it’s surely a feather in his cap for Redshirts author John Scalzi to be interviewed about his novel in the July 6 edition. … Continue reading
John Scalzi is auctioning off a special pre-publication bound manuscript version of his latest novel Redshirts: A Novel With Three Codas to benefit the Bradford, Ohio public library. Bidding is open through September 19. Such a worthy, civic-minded venture deserves publicity … Continue reading
“Big Idea,” a regular feature on John Scalzi’s Whatever blog, has proven so successful that it’s getting a whole new platform of its own, reported GalleyCat on February 11. BigIdeaAuthors.com will debut April 20, 2009. A preview tells visitors that … Continue reading
(1) DEAD PLASTIC. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] What would you do if the world suddenly ran out of digital money? With some parts of Worldcon fandom (such as publications policy increasingly becoming digital myopically to the exclusion of … Continue reading
The 58th issue of the Uncanny Magazine, winner of seven Hugos and a British Fantasy Award, will be available on May 7 at uncannymagazine.com. Hugo Award-winning Publishers Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are proud to present the 58th issue of their seven-time Hugo Award-winning … Continue reading
Nominees for the 55th Seiun Awards, the Japanese speculative fiction award honoring the best works of the previous calendar year, were announced April 24. The winners will be announced July 6 at Yanecon, the 62nd Japan Science Fiction Convention, to be held … Continue reading
(1) TODAY’S 40,000. [Item by Anne Marble.] A little Warhammer news… The official Warhammer Official X.com account just posted “In regards to female Custodians, there have always been female Custodians, since the first of the Ten Thousand were created.” (It … Continue reading
The finalists for the 15th annual Xingyun Awards for Chinese science fiction have been announced by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association. Winners will be revealed at a ceremony to be held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China on May 18, 2024. … Continue reading
A REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: A FEW THOUGHTS ON SOME OF THE 2024 HUGO AWARD FINALISTS By Chris M. Barkley: I, like many of you reading this, were absolutely riveted around 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Detested Time, as far as I’m concerned) on … Continue reading