(1) Randall Munroe has a piece on The New Yorker blog called “The Space Doctor’s Big Idea”. He’s explaining Einstein and relativity, but doing it with his cartoons and quirky humor. The first idea is called the special idea, because … Continue reading
(1) We begin with some choice misinformation from Charlotte Eyre’s “Five ‘no awards’ given at Hugos” on The Bookseller. The groups [Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies] had allegedly paid for fans to go to WorldCon to have influence over the … Continue reading
Six stories, two advertisements disguised as news, and a charming science video make up today’s Scroll. (1) What happens when you delegate your online transactions to a program that becomes annoyed by your laziness? Rudy Rucker provides an imaginative answer … Continue reading
John Hertz writes, “While trying to finish my Westercon LXVII report — I had occasion to phone Keri & Dave Doering, who immediately guessed what I was calling about — I happened to notice your commemoration of Abbott & Costello … Continue reading
Several fanwriters celebrated yesterday, December 11, as the anniversary of the first science fiction club meeting. Was it? Probably not. Eofan Allen Glasser made the claim that his New York club, the Scienceers, was “the first of all science fiction clubs” … Continue reading
Science fiction’s capitalists, who flog their books in the hucksters room for filthy lucre, have at last been recognized by that journal for millionaires, Forbes. John Farrell, Forbes science and technology journalist, ran photos of legendary fans he witnessed “Dealing In Science Fiction Classics At Readercon”. Farrell rhapsodizes … Continue reading
Unlike Outer Limits, Bruce Gillespie allows you to control the vertical and horizontal when you choose which version of SF Commentary #86 to download from eFanzines. One version is designed for ordinary printouts (76 pages) (the ‘portrait’ edition), the other … Continue reading
Leland Sapiro (born Shapiro) died October 8. Sapiro was best known as editor of Riverside Quarterly, three-time nominee for the Best Fanzine Hugo (1967, 1969, 1970), “an earnest little fanzine, the hand-knitted fannish equivalent of an academic journal” as described … Continue reading
Finalists for the 2012 Mythopoeic Awards have been announced. The winners will be revealed during Mythcon XLIII, to be held from August 3-6, in Berkeley, California. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places (Tachyon) Erin Morgenstern, The … Continue reading
Norwescon 35 will air the Philip K. Dick Award Ceremony live on Friday, April 6 beginning at 6:55 p.m. over the P.K. Dick Awards USTREAM channel. The Philip K. Dick award is presented annually to a science fiction book published … Continue reading