By Geri Sullivan and Johan Anglemark: We, the administrators of the 2020 TAFF race, are pleased to announce that Michael Lowrey will be the 2020 TAFF Delegate. He will attend Concentric: Eastercon 2020 to be held in Birmingham, UK on … Continue reading
2019 Windycon Fan Guest of Honor Speech: An Apocryphal Story, 43 Things I Learned Being In Fandom and Mean Comments From File 770 Readers By Chris M. Barkley: Good Morning. I’m Chris Barkley. A word of warning: At one point … Continue reading
A Speculative Future of the Sport of Baseball By Chris M. Barkley: As I write these musings on the day before the opening of the 2019 Baseball Season, there seems to be a great deal of concern about whether or … Continue reading
By Joel Zakem: [Reprinted from FB with permission] This is a post I hoped to never write. In terms of longevity, Frank Johnson was my oldest friend. I believe that we first encountered each other in 1966 or 67, when … Continue reading
(1) TRASH TALKER. [Item by Mike Kennedy.] Maybe Denver got jealous of the Stargate made of luggage at the San Antonio airport and wanted to one-up them. More likely, it would seem, they just decided to lean in to the unfounded … Continue reading
British fan, bookseller, and author George Locke died February 1 at the age of 82. His first published sf story was “The Human Seed” for Authentic Science Fiction in October 1957, and he wrote a number of stories under the … Continue reading
(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
Remembering: Harlan & I By Chris M. Barkley “Awareness and Kindness are the only sacred things.” – Harlan Ellison On May 14, 2018, Tom Wolfe died. Most of you reading this know him as the author of The Right Stuff, … Continue reading
Why I am Advocating for a Best Translated Novel Category By Chris M. Barkley: Author’s Note: Like Jo Van Ekeren, I am a member of a Hugo Awards Study Committee, which was formed last year at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, … Continue reading
By Rich Lynch: It was 80 years ago that an extraordinary event took place. It happened on January 3, 1937, in the English city of Leeds. It was there that a group of science fiction fans gathered for what has … Continue reading