April’s most-read post was about an attention-craving writer suing the San Jose Worldcon. However, protests about John Ringo ’s being named a ConCarolinas special guest produced three posts in the Top 10 – two of them about the story, and … Continue reading
(1) 100 LOVED BOOKS. PBS series The Great American Read premieres May 22. One hundred books, one winner: THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s … Continue reading
The April 20 Pixel Scroll quoted several paragraphs from Declan Finn’s blog post “The John Ringo and ConCarolinas issue” (see item 13) ending with this one — On THEIR OWN TERMS, I should be concerned to even walk the halls … Continue reading
(1) SF IN NYT. Amal El-Mohtar’s latest Otherworldly book review column for the New York Times covers “Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel: What’s New in Science Fiction and Fantasy” What does it mean to retell a story? Does it mean … Continue reading
(1) UP ON THE ROOFTOP. Not the sort of thing you usually find on a New York rooftop, like a pigeon coop, or Spider-Man — “The Met Rooftop’s New Installation, ‘We Come in Peace,’ Has Landed”. The Metropolitan Museum of … Continue reading
(1) YOUR 1962 HUGO WINNERS. The Traveler at Galactic Journey spent Labor Day Weekend in Chicago engaged in fandom’s favorite pastime of complaining about the Hugo winners, like that gosh-darned Heinlein novel, Stranger in a Strange Land: “[Sep. 4, 1962] … Continue reading
The Dragon Awards winners were announced today at Dragon Con in Atlanta. Dragon Con President Pat Henry told the audience there were around 8,000 final ballots, twice as many as last year (although no voting statistics were released last year.) … Continue reading
By JJ: Introduction: [Quoted from JJ’s study of the award’s first winners] “The argument, from both the Puppies, and the Dragon Awards organizers (the Venn Diagram of which is unknown), is that the Dragon Awards, unlike the Hugos, truly represent … Continue reading
Nickpheas had an interesting idea – he charted how many Goodreads users have rated each of the novels nominated for the 2017 Dragon Awards. He posted these as comments and I asked his permission to turn his research into a … Continue reading
The nominees for the Dragon Awards were released August 3, and some authors who campaigned energetically for it succeeded in their quest to get on the ballot. Color-coded below are the nominations from three of the strongest marketing and promotion … Continue reading