(1) DOZOIS REMEMBERED AT NYRSF. Via David Langford comes news that New York Review of Science Fiction #349, a Special Gardner Dozois Memorial Issue, is available as a free download. Memories, anecdotes, appreciations, confessions, and clickbait, from: Michael Bishop • … Continue reading
By John Hertz: Where I live it’s the first day of spring. For Bruce Gillespie, the New Zealand for 2020 Worldcon bid, and like that, it’s fall. Diversity again. Easier said than done, but worthy of both. I like to … Continue reading
(1) QUEEN OF PULP. Twitter’s Pulp Librarian today did a retrospective of illustrator Margaret Brundage, “the Queen of Pulp,” with lots of her Weird Tales covers from the 1930s. Jump on the thread here — Today I'm looking at the … Continue reading
The Horror Writers Association is accepting applications for its Scholarship From Hell until January 29. Click for a full list of rules and application link. The winner of the scholarship will receive travel to and from StokerCon 2018 in Providence, … Continue reading
INTRODUCTION. Twenty-five years ago MagiCon was held 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 fourth of five daily installments. The Worldcon was … Continue reading
(1) BY KLONO’S BRAZEN BALLS. I remember how 30s space opera authors invented colorful gods for characters to swear by. Taking advantage of today’s freer speech, Book View Café’s Marie Brennan advises writers to give characters language to swear with: … Continue reading
(1) THANKED AND EXCUSED. Mattie Brahan, in a non-public post, said her husband, Darrell Schweitzer, was told he won’t be needed as a Readercon 28 program participant –a piece of news Barry Longyear exaggerated in his public post as “banning”. … Continue reading
Happy New Year! Here are the most-viewed posts from the past year with notes explaining what helped make them so. 1. More of Your Comments on MACII While I was laid up in the hospital, Filers rallied around to keep … Continue reading
Darrell Schweitzer released the program for the 2016 World Fantasy Convention and promptly came under a hail of criticism from writers. Much of it was directed at a program title found to be offensive – “Spicy Oriental Zeppelin Stories.” During … Continue reading
The New York Review of Science Fiction #330 is a Special Memorial Issue devoted to the magazine’s co-founder, the late David G. Hartwell. Produced in conjunction with the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, it presents “a collection … Continue reading