The finalists for the 2023 Kurd Laßwitz Preis were announced on March 15. The award, named after German author Kurd Laßwitz, is given to works written in or translated into the German language and published during the previous year. The ballot was … Continue reading
(1) NASA “HUMAN COMPUTER” NOW ON THE MAP. “Moon Mountain Name Honors NASA Mathematician Melba Mouton” the space agency announced this week. Scientists recently named a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape carved by craters near the Moon’s … Continue reading
(1) CONGRATULATIONS LEE! LASFS member Lee Gold has been awarded a Hall of Fame plaque from the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design for her work on Alarums & Excursions. As John Hertz explained in his APA-Lzine Vanamonde #1531: Alarums and … Continue reading
The 50th issue of Uncanny Magazine, winner of six Hugos and a British Fantasy Award, will be available on January 3 at uncannymagazine.com. Hugo Award-winning Publishers Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are proud to present the 50th issue of their six-time Hugo Award-winning … Continue reading
(1) FUTURE TENSE. The November 2022 entry in the Future Tense Fiction series is “Universal Waste” by Palmer Holton, a story about a small-town cop, a murder, and a massive futuristic recycling operation. It was published along with a response … Continue reading
Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Spare Man provides the most seductive of settings for a space opera novel, an interplanetary cruise liner with all the trimmings, and deploys that setting to tell the story of a crackerjack murder mystery. By Paul … Continue reading
The shortlist for the 2022 Prix Actusf de l’Uchronie was revealed on October 25. It is a juried award for work in a specialized segment of sff field, described in the Wikipedia: Uchronia refers to a hypothetical or fictional time period of our world, in contrast … Continue reading
Fan Fund activities at Chicon 8 brought in a total of $4,649.64 reports Geri Sullivan, a past administrator of the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund. Fan funds enable a well-known fan to attend a major science fiction convention in another country or region. The Live Auction … Continue reading
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas are launching a Kickstarter for Year Nine of their five-time Hugo Award-winning professional online Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine: Uncanny Magazine. Each issue contains new and classic speculative fiction, fiction podcasts, poetry, essays, … Continue reading
Will voters become complacent after last year’s progress toward prying Puppy paws loose from the Dragon Awards? In 2021 the seven novel categories on the ballot were loaded with books fans read and talked about. Wouldn’t it be great to keep … Continue reading