(1) WHOSE TABLE DO YOU WANT TO SIT AT? [Item by Mike Kennedy.] Writing for SYFY Wire, Brian Silliman runs down a dozen genre families (loosely defined) you might like to visit at Thanksgiving. The surviving members of LotR’s Fellowship … Continue reading
(1) BRADBURY CENTENARY PODCAST. Phil Nichols’ BRADBURY 100 podcast starts today! His guest on episode 1 is author Steven Paul Leiva. I first met Steve at Ray Bradbury’s 90th birthday party in 2010, which was held in Glendale’s Mystery & … Continue reading
(1) DRAWING A LINE IN THE SILICON. Tor author S.L. Huang, in “Genre Labels: What Makes A Book More Thriller Than Sci-Fi?” on CrimeReads, says “I’ve been a science fiction and fantasy nerd for as long as I can remember,” … Continue reading
The 2020 Philip K. Dick Award winner was announced April 10 in a livestreamed ceremony hosted on YouTube by Norwescon. WINNER: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories by Sarah Pinsker (Small Beer Press) SPECIAL CITATION The Little Animals by Sarah … Continue reading
By JJ: CoNZealand has announced the 2020 Hugo Award Finalists. Since the Hugo Voter’s packet will take awhile to arrive, if you’d like to get a head start on your reading, you can use this handy guide to find material … Continue reading
CoNZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the finalists for the 2020 Hugo Awards today. As previously reported, CoNZealand received Hugo Awards nominations from 1,584 members. The webcast announcing the finalists is available for viewing on the CoNZealand YouTube … Continue reading
By Daniel Dern. Boskone 57, Feb 14-16, 2020. The temperature ranged from chilly (it is winter) to downright frosty (12? Saturday morning, maybe up to 20? by 9:45AM when we walked the overpass from our hotel to the con), but … Continue reading
The judges of the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, have announced the six nominated works on the final ballot for the award: The Outside by Ada Hoffmann … Continue reading
(1) NETWORK ANALYSIS OF RWA/MILAN CONTROVERSY. Mikki Kendall did a breakdown for NBC News: “The Romance Writers of America racism row matters because the gatekeepers are watching”. …Let’s talk about the power of romance. There’s power in the written word, … Continue reading
File 770’s Carl Slaughter died August 11, 2019 in a car accident. The Murray, Kentucky fan had just moved back to the U.S. in March after years spent teaching English in China. Carl made his mark in fandom as an … Continue reading