(1) SOUNDING OFF. John Scalzi’s new novella in The Dispatcher series debuted today as an audiobook narrated by Zachary Quinto. You can hear the two of them discuss it via Whatever: “Here’s Me and Zachary Quinto Interviewing Each Other About … Continue reading
(1) LAST NIGHT IN MY HOMETOWN. LA County banned cities from hosting the usual Fourth of July public fireworks displays. But as you know, nature abhors a vacuum. (2) LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS FEN. Camestros Felapton is firing up … Continue reading
(1) THE NEW NUMBER TWO. Future Science Fiction Digest’s second issue was released today. The contents are available for immediate purchase, or you can read the stories when they become available as free reads on the site between now and … Continue reading
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, video and audio books for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Results of … Continue reading
INTRODUCTION: Twenty-five years ago today MagiCon began in Orlando, Florida. A great con, and I thought it would be fun to reprint the report I ran in File 770. Here is the second of five daily installments. The Worldcon was … Continue reading
(1) If you are fan who drinks, the newly reopened Clifton’s Cafeteria would like to tempt you with these two science fictional libations – (2) “Another Word: Chinese Science Fiction and Chinese Reality” by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, in Clarkesworld, talks about … Continue reading
James E. Gunn, Georges Méliès, John Schoenherr, and Kurt Vonnegut are the 2015 inductees to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame reports Locus Online. This year’s Curator’s Selection is Jack Gaughan. The induction ceremony will be June 27 in Seattle.
More than five dozen lots of art and books from the Charles N. Brown Collection are on the block at Liveauctioneers.com. Only a few items are explicitly connected with sf and fantasy, like 10 interior prozine illustrations by artists including Ed … Continue reading
While admiring the stark simplicity of James Nicoll’s pie graph showing 98% of all Best Pro Artist Hugo winners are men, I recalled another statistical truth. Once voters find an artist they love, he tends to keep winning the category … Continue reading
A petition urging the Obama administration to proceed with a set of commemorative postage stamps honoring sf writers – and to make the group much larger and more diverse – has been launched by Chris Barkley on the 106th anniversary of Robert A. … Continue reading