(1) 1990 SOUVENIR BOOK. To help promote the planned Reunicon 2020 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of ConFiction 1990, Kees Van Toorn and friends have uploaded the Souvenir Book of ConFiction 1990 on their website in flipbook format. (2) GAME … Continue reading
By Tammy Coxen: 1976 – GRRM holds the first Hugo Loser’s Party, an unofficial event in his hotel room 1976-1985 – GRRM continues to run the HLP as an unofficial event “usually teaming up with a publisher” 1985 to 1987 … Continue reading
British conrunner Martin Hoare died July 26, reportedly from infection following an emergency surgical procedure. He was 67. Born in Newport, Wales in 1952, he went to the same nursery schools as Dave Langford who remembers him as “My oldest … Continue reading
By Jo Van Ekeren: I’ve spent the last couple of years exhuming statistics and ephemera about the Hugo Awards from various sources, including old Usenet posts on Google Groups, old fanzines, archived con websites, and various historical documents which have … Continue reading
(1) SIGN UP AND LINE UP. LAist says “You Can Reserve Star Wars Land Tickets At Disneyland Starting Next Week”. Crowds are expected to be intense for Disneyland’s new section of the park, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. The company announced … Continue reading
(1) A WISE SAYING TO SUIT THE DAY. (2) APRIL FOOLISHNESS. Here’s a prank that was hard to miss – because the perpetrators e-mailed me the link to the Haines in 2021 Westercon bid. Haines in 2021 is the byproduct … Continue reading
(1) SCIENCE IS A MOVING TARGET. James S.A. Corey thought they had the science right but a NASA spacecraft proved them gloriously wrong. National Geographic got the creators of The Expanse to write Dawn a fan letter — “Dear Dawn: … 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 third of five daily installments. The Worldcon was … Continue reading
Annemarie van Ewyck, an internationally-known Dutch fan, died January 15 at the age of 73. (She spelled her name van Ewyck when she wrote for File 770, and ConFiction chair Kees van Toorn spelled it that way when he announced … Continue reading
(1) WHILE YOU WERE WAITING. Ann Leckie must be wondering if any of us are paying attention. Quite frequently someone at a reading will ask me if I’ll ever explain about that icon Breq is carrying. And the answer is, … Continue reading