Opposing rallies will be held outside the San Jose Convention Center on Saturday afternoon, August 18, while the World Science Fiction Convention meets inside. The Worldcon committee has issued a statement that they and the San Jose police are aware … Continue reading
By Chris M. Barkley: Today, as of Noon today, EST, I formally ask that the proposal to add Ursula K. Le Guin’s name to the Lodestar Award be withdrawn from consideration at the Worldcon 76 Business Meeting. After consulting with … Continue reading
Compiled by Hampus Eckerman: I tried to write down a schedule of all filers that are part of programming on Worldcon. If you’re a commenter or a lurker here, and you’d like to have your programming items added to this … Continue reading
The revised 2018 Worldcon programming schedule is now online. As this is written, the summary shows there are 806 items and 688 participants. The original program was subjected to enough criticism that it was taken down and a team of … Continue reading
[From a press release.] The gaming department for WorldCon is pleased to announce that WorldCon 76 will have an open gaming area for convention attendees. The convention has provided a large room for our use, which will be open 24 … Continue reading
The Worldcon 76 program revisions promised yesterday will be aided by Mary Robinette Kowal and a team she is in the process of assembling. Chair Kevin Roche tweeted – @MaryRobinette graciously offered to help and we accepted. If you have … Continue reading
When Worldcon 76 program participants were sent their schedules over the weekend such controversy resulted that the schedule was taken offline this morning, Chair Kevin Roche issued an apology, and the committee now is reviewing the participant bios, asking to … Continue reading
By John Hertz: The 2018 World Science Fiction Convention is the 76th, to be held 16-20 August at San Jose, California, U.S.A. Its Website is here. Some Worldcons have nicknames, but this one is just called “Worldcon 76”. We’ll discuss … Continue reading
There are three new filings in the case of “Jonathan Del Arroz vs San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (‘SFSFC’) aka ‘Worldcon76’ David W. Gallaher (2019), President et al.,’” — the first new entries to the court’s online status system … Continue reading
2018 HUGO BASE. Sara Felix and Vincent Villafranca are collaborating to create the 2018 Hugo Award base. Each artist individually has created a past Hugo base. Villafranca produced the iconic 2013 LoneStarCon 2 Hugo base. (And he designed the new … Continue reading