The finalists for the 2016 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel of the year have been announced. The Campbell Award is a juried award. The current jurors are Gregory Benford, Sheila Finch, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul … Continue reading
(1) THE TENTACLE RECONCILIATION. This just in — “Cthulhu Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize”. OSLO, NORWAY — Dread Lord, and presidential candidate, Cthulhu has more to savor this week on the campaign trail than the vulture-picked carcasses of the … Continue reading
(1) “The Phantom Fame: ‘Space Ghost Coast to Coast,’ Secretly TV’s Most Influential Show”. Shea Serrano explains his theory on Grantland. Repurposing existing Space Ghost images from the original cartoons, Lazzo created the first animated late-night talk show in 1994. Operated … Continue reading
The finalists for the 2014 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel of 2013 have been announced. The award will be presented on June 13 during the Campbell Conference at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Max Barry … 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
Charlie Jane Anders and Brian Francis Slattery will present at the New York Review of SF Readings on May 22, under the aegis of guest curator Liz Gorinsky. Charlie Jane Anders is managing editor of io9.com and the organizer of … Continue reading
Do you feel lucky? Here are 8 developments of interest to fans: (1) Frederik Pohl will be getting Arthur Hlavaty’s vote for the Best Fan Writer Hugo in part because of this irresistible series of reminiscences about Robert Heinlein and his … Continue reading
Two issues of Steam Engine Time, edited by Bruce Gillespie and Janine Stinson, are available at eFanzines. “Today’s Women of Wonder” is the theme of issue #11. Issue #12 is subtitled “Off on a Treasure Hunt.” The full press release … Continue reading
(1) CALL FOR ATTITUDE CHANGE. Robert Zubrin and two associates discuss the search for life on Mars in the New Atlantis. “How to Search for Life on Mars” – “First, stop refusing to look.” … The search for life ought … Continue reading
(1) ATWOOD SEQUEL. With A Handmaid’s Tale enjoying great success as a TV series, Publishers Weekly reports “Margaret Atwood Is Writing a Sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’”. Following two years in which Margaret Atwood‘s classic dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale … Continue reading