The Visual Effects Society released the nominations for the 2023 VES Awards on January 17. The awards recognize outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in features, animation, television, commercials and video games, and the VFX Supervisors, VFX Producers and hands-on Artists who … Continue reading
The British Science Fiction Association has released the longlists of nominees for the BSFA Awards for work published in 2022. The awards are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association and by the members of the year’s … Continue reading
(1) NUMBER, PLEASE. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny comes to theaters June 30, 2023. It’s the first fifth in the series! Harrison Ford returns as the legendary hero archaeologist in the highly anticipated fifth installment of the iconic … Continue reading
The shortlists for the 2022 British Fantasy Awards have been released, along with the names of the jurors who will decide the winners, which will be announced at FantasyCon in September. BEST NEWCOMER (THE SYDNEY J. BOUNDS AWARD) Jurors: Anna Agaronyan, Clara Cohen, … Continue reading
The finalists for the 2021 Kurd Laßwitz Preis were announced on March 15. The award, named after German author Kurd Laßwitz, is given to works written in or translated into the German language and published during the previous year. The German language … Continue reading
(1) PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE ASKS INTERNET ARCHIVE TO REMOVE MAUS. Chris Freeland, a librarian and Director of the Internet Archive’s Open Libraries program, advocates for his work at ZDNet: “Librarian’s lament: Digital books are not fireproof”. The disturbing trend of school … Continue reading
The 2022 Writers Guild Awards screenplay nominations were announced January 27. This year’s eligibility period was March 1-December 31, 2021. The winners will be named at the joint 2022 WGA Awards on Sunday, March 20. Nominees of genre interest are: in … Continue reading
The finalists for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2022 have been revealed. They include several productions and performances of genre interest. Best Actor Toby Jones, Grief is the Thing with Feathers – A family has lost its mother, and black-feathered Crow – … Continue reading
DisCon III, the 2021 Worldcon being held December 15-19, sent out a series of press releases with the convention’s daily schedule. The program will present hundreds of hours of discussion panels, presentations, workshops, and classes on subjects covering all kinds … Continue reading
(1) A LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO RECOVERY. John Varley had a heart attack followed by a quadruple bypass in February, and later was hospitalized with a post-vaccination breakthrough Covid infection, all of which he’s written about in “What a … Continue reading