Ending a 38 year association with WisCon, Jeanne Gomoll resigned from the convention committee and the board of its parent organization, SF3, on October 5. “Leaving it has broken my heart,” she wrote. Gomoll was chair of WisCon 20 (1996) … Continue reading
WisCon has announced that “in response to member concerns” 2011 and 2014 co-chair Piglet Evans will not be handling harassment reports in any committee position she may hold in the future, nor will she serve in any of the convention’s … Continue reading
Elise Matthesen, who a year ago went public about the sexual harassment report she made at WisCon, now has followed with detailed criticism of the WisCon committee’s handling of the report and others made about the same person, who nevertheless was … Continue reading
A year ago, the unnamed alleged harasser in a widely publicized incident at WisCon 37 was eventually identified as Jim Frenkel. He soon thereafter lost his position as a Tor editor. WisCon 38 was held in May and several fans complained … Continue reading
Elizabeth Moon was interviewed by NewsOK, the Oklahoman online, on October 23 about WisCon’s decision to drop her as one of its guests of honor. Here are the first four paragraphs: A best-selling Texas science fiction author has been un-invited … Continue reading
WisCon’s parent organization SF3 announces it “has withdrawn the invitation to Elizabeth Moon to attend WisCon 35 as guest of honor.” The opinions Moon expressed in her September 11 LiveJournal post about building a mosque near Ground Zero aroused widespread controversy (for … Continue reading
Well worth reading is Cheryl Morgan’s report on the many fans who got sick at Wiscon: Most of you will already know about the particularly virulent strain of con crud that struck Wiscon last weekend (and to those of you … 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
(1) FLOTSAM AND JETSAM. The five-day “Treasures From Planet Hollywood” auction brought in more than $15.6 million from over 5,500 bidders worldwide across some 1,600 lots, according to Heritage Auctions. Here are some items of genre interest that fetched big … Continue reading
(1) LIBBY BOOK AWARDS. Congratulations to Martha Wells and Rebecca Yarros, two of the 17 winners of the inaugural Libby Book Awards, chosen by a panel of 1700 librarians worldwide. (2) BOOK BANS SURGED IN 2023. “American Library Association reports … Continue reading