The third annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition’s 18 semifinalists have been announced. They have been selected by the nine remaining judging teams. (The original Team EPIC was dissolved in December.) The official SPSFC website has not caught up with the … Continue reading
DP Foresi became the latest writer to tee off against a reviewer in social media when he posted complaints on Nancy Foster’s X.com account about her Goodreads review of his book, which gave the reasons why she voted to cut … Continue reading
Inspiring Ideas for this year’s Hugo Awards By Erin Underwood: The start of a calendar year always brings out the best and worst lists in reviewers. While I won’t do a “Worst of 2023” list because that’s just not my … Continue reading
(1) FUTURE TENSE. The December 2023 entry in the Future Tense Fiction series is “Rigland,” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. The story is about oil rigs and what we owe to our communities. It was published along with a response essay by journalist … Continue reading
[From a press release.] The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the full lineup for its upcoming season celebrating the legacy of novelist Philip K. Dick. The two-day event held from October 27-28 at the L’Hybride theater in Lille, … Continue reading
Octocon 2023 The Irish National Science Fiction ConventionGibson Hotel, DublinOctober 7-8, 2023 By James Bacon: Octocon has moved to a new venue, The Gibson Hotel, in Dublin city, and it felt really nice, and with 321 people attending it … Continue reading
[Editor’s Note: Gareth Powell is a British SF writer who has written three series, to wit the Ack-Ack Macaque series with airships and cigar-smoking-monkey fighter pilots, and the Embers of War with ships akin to those in Iain M. Banks’ Culture series. Powell’s latest series … Continue reading
(1) SERGEY LUKYANENKO WILL BE WORKING ON THE RAILROAD. Starting tomorrow, Chengdu Worldcon GoH Sergey Lukyanenko will join a whistlestop tour of Russia “Book beacons of Russia. Reading August 2023”. The TASS publicity release says: “Reading August” [is] a book … Continue reading
(1) CULTIVATING HYBRIDS. Paul Kraus’ article on “Hybrid Conventions” begins with a statement of philosophy wrapped in the definitions of major terms. Then Kraus lists what’s needed to make a hybrid convention successful. When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit, all of … Continue reading
Rory August’s The Last Gifts of the Universe is the winner of the second Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition, created by Hugh Howey and Duncan Swan, is modeled after Mark Lawrence’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, and has his blessing. … Continue reading