Steve Green announces that the 2011 Trans Atlantic Fan Fund race (Europe > North America) will take nominations beginning November 12 (opening day of Novacon 40). The nomination process will close December 18, with candidates announced by December 20. The race itself will run until March 12 2011.
The winner will attend Renovation, the 69th World SF Convention, in Reno, Nevada, 17-21 August 2011.
Steve advises anyone interested in standing to contact him by e-mail at [email protected].
Steve Green has distributed the full voting statistics for the 2009 Nova Awards announced at last weekend’s Novacon in Nottingham, UK. Banana Wings, Claire Brialey and Sue Mason took top honors.
The Nova Awards are for achievement in British sf fanzines as voted by members of the convention able to “demonstrate a basic knowledge of current fanzines.”
Best fanzine: 1, Banana Wings (30 points); 2, Journey Planet (24); 3, Head (20); 4, Prolapse / Relapse (18); 5, Plokta, Quasiquote (11); 7, No Sin But Ignorance (7); 8, The Descent of Fan (6); 9, Lost in Space (3); 10, Ansible, Procrastinations (2), 12, The Banksoniain, Critical Wave (1).
Best fan writer: 1, Claire Brialey (26 points); 2, James Bacon (15); 3, Doug Bell (14); 4, Mark Plummer (11); 5, Dave Langford (9); 6, Christina Lake (8); 7, Sandra Bond, Peter Weston (7); 9, Max (5); 10, Greg Pickersgill (4); 11, John Nielsen Hall (3); 12, John Coxon, Alison Scott, Nicholas Whyte (2); 15, Caroline Mullan, Yvonne Rowse, Alan Sullivan, Ian Williams (1).
Best fan artist: 1, Sue Mason (13 points*); 2, Alison Scott (13*); 3, John Toon (12); 4, Steve Jeffrey (8); 5, Steve Green (7); 6, D West (6); 7, ATom (5); 8, Clarrie O’Callaghan (4); 9, Dave Hicks (3).
[*Although Sue Mason and Alison Scott tied both for points and first-place votes, Sue received more second-place votes.]
Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Wu and the tandem of Brian Gray and Anne KG Murphy are your 2009 Trans Atlantic Fan Fund candidates. The winner(s) will go to the 2010 Eastercon.
Wu’s nominators are Guy Lillian III, John Purcell, Kevin Roche, James Bacon and Michael Rennie.
Gray’s and Murphy’s nominators are John Scalzi, Steven H Silver, Geri Sullivan, Paul Cornell and Cheryl Morgan.
Votes must reach the administrators Chris Garcia or Steve Green by December 22 before Chris Garcia’s watch strikes midnight. (Hint: it’s set to Pacific time).
[Story thieved from Ansible Links.]
Steve Green reports: “Leading UK horror magazine The Dark Side has reportedly ceased publication after more than 15 years. There’s no announcement on the website, but the links for the current and next issues no longer work. This might be temporary, of course.”
At Cult Movie Forums one contributor wrote:
Got a letter through the post today saying that my subscription to ‘Dark Side’ magazine was being suspended due to the current financial climate forcing the magazine to cease publication until they hope sometime in the new year, when a relaunch is planned in a ‘brand new’ format…something similar was said about the ‘Hammer Horror’ magazine, which vanished forever into the ether…so doesn’t sound very optimistic, does it?
Adventure and a trip to Eastercon await the next Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegate. Chris Garcia and Steve Green promise! And since they’re the two most recent winners, they ought to know. Nominations are being accepted until October 4.
The full press release appears after the jump.
Peter Sullivan reports, “With under a week to go to the voting deadline, TAFF candidates Tom Womack and Steve Green go into last-minute campaigning mode with a impromptu interview at Eastercon.” (11 minute video.)
Says Peter Sullivan, alert the media! “Steve Green (‘for TAFF’) and I will be attempting to do the first(?) live video streaming from a British convention, following on from the successful video streams from Corflu this year and last. Because this is still an experiment, in both a technical and ‘nettiquette’ sense, we won’t be doing 24/7 video streaming, but will be covering a selection of panels and other events going on over the weekend. The video stream itself will be at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/LXtra and details of our (hopefully evolving) schedule will be at http://tuckerverse.livejournal.com/.”
Last weekend, Feorag NicBhride live-blogged Novacon 38’s panel about “whether LiveJournal has eaten fanzine fandom.”
I have resisted the temptation to think of this as another in the perpetual series of will-electronic-communication-kill-paperzines panels we’ve been having at conventions since the days when unknown fans showed up in the audiences claiming they were publishing fanzines on five-inch floppies.
It’s obviously not the same, for at least two reasons. First, the panel was full of interesting speakers, including
Paperzines do seem destined to die, yet they have enjoyed an even more lingering death than Little Nell. I suppose the fact that I am still publishing one isn’t exactly speeding up the ending.
Credit to Cheryl Morgan who’s already posted these links, as well as the news that Novacon 38 was also where Steve Green and Martin Tudor chose to re-launch Critical Wave, which is available online at efanzines.com.
[Thanks to David Klaus for the story.]