A new regular Sunday feature debuts this week: FANAC’s Fan History Project videos. Fans have always been keen to embrace new technologies, including 8 and 16mm film!
Fanac.org (FAN-ACtivity) has been establishing a quite extensive archive of audio and visual works produced by fandom over the past several years. The Film Program feature (named for a former constant at conventions) will highlight the project’s contents.
This week:
Forrest Ackerman Interview from 1996’s LAConIII, the 54th Worldcon
and
A Mimeo Fanzine Workshop, from 1976’s MidAmeriCon, the 34th Worldcon
New projects mean new opportunities for writers
Over the last three weeks I have discussed the sources and causes of Science Fictions self-esteem problem. The genre’s inability to shed it’s pulp roots and ongoing pulpishness, the relative obscurity of SF to the book reading public and the enduring legacy of brainless Hollywood Science Fiction films have all contributed to the critical non-acceptance […]
