(1) DANK DAIRY. Nature gets into the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day in its own idiocyncratic way with publication of this research: “Four millennia of dairy surplus and deposition revealed through compound-specific stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating of Irish … Continue reading
(1) NAME THAT ROCK. In the Washington Post, Sarah Kaplan profiles the “byzantine and marvelously nerdy naming guidelines” of the International Astronomical Union (“The bizarre and brilliant rules for naming new stuff in space”). Among them: the mountains and plains of … Continue reading
(1) STAR POWER. Over the weekend Scott Edelman recorded a reading by Charlie Jane Anders and Sandra Newman at a Washington D.C. bookstore — On the afternoon of Saturday, February 16, 2019, Charlie Jane Anders (The City in the Middle … Continue reading
(1) YA FOR YA. Vicky Who Reads has a lot of interesting observations about “The Many Ways YA Books & The Community Isolates Teens”. Following up her first point, that teens lack money and often do their reading in ways … Continue reading
By Steve Davidson: Where was I in 1978, the year that File 770 (the fanzine, not the room) was born? I was in college in northern New Jersey. Which made it very easy for me to continue my engagement with … Continue reading
(1) PROFESSOR JOSHI HEARD FROM AGAIN. Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, who has repeatedly attacked World Fantasy Award board member Ellen Datlow since the board decided to replace the Lovecraft award statuette, recently climbed aboard his hobby horse to complain about … Continue reading
(1) CHILDHOOD’S BEGINNING. When people finally stop sending letters, here’s the kind of thing we’ll be missing: “UK toys celebrated on Royal Mail stamps”. The UK’s favourite toys from the past 100 years are being celebrated in a new set … Continue reading
Meg Turville-Heitz, WFC Board co-chair, announced today, “The Board of the World Fantasy Convention has instructed the World Fantasy Award Administration to retire the Gahan Wilson HPL design including the nomination pins.”
Vincent Villafranca’s design for the new World Fantasy Award trophy has been chosen the winner by the World Fantasy Awards Administration and the Board of the World Fantasy Convention following a year-long public competition. Villafranca, the Chesley Award-winning sculptor and designer … Continue reading
The World Fantasy Award administrators, who decided a year ago to stop using the Lovecraft bust created by Gahan Wilson, are just weeks away from making a decision in the competition to design the new World Fantasy Award trophy. Editor Ellen Datlow, of World … Continue reading