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Korean Frights
By Michaele Jordan: How can Halloween be over already? We barely had time to watch thirty horror movies –and those mostly classics, which are less than half our (horror) collection! And yet, there we were on October 31, sitting on
Marvel Universe Faces A Simian Takeover
Earlier this year, Marvel Entertainment announced that the Planet of the Apes franchise will return to Marvel Comics with all-new stories starting in early 2023. The legendary science fiction franchise has spanned over five decades with media including comics, books,
Pixel Scroll 11/5/22 It’s Files And Pixels I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Scrolls At All
DIVORCE ANNOUNCEMENT. From Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman, “A joint statement from me and Neil”. Hi Everyone. This is a joint statement from me and Neil. Neil is posting this on his blog as well. (And I posted it
How Many People Are Leaving Twitter?
File 770 usually has a tiny uptick of Twitter followers every month, and I happened to notice that what was tracking +19 a few days ago is now +6. Since I don’t think I did anything new to make people
Barkley — So Glad You (Didn’t) Ask #69
Fandom and the Pendulum: The Astronomicon 13 Fan Guest of Honor Speech By Chris M. Barkley: “We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” — Anais Nin I was resetting a cuckoo clock the
Pixel Scroll 11/4/22 All Hearts Is Turned To Gizzards
ABOUT THE BIRD. Neil Clarke, Editor of Clarkesworld, tweeted a series of thoughtful insights in reply to the current anxiety about Twitter’s future as a vehicle for marketing short fiction magazines. Thread starts here. Excerpts follow. (2) EATING THE
Amazing Stories Has A New Editor-In-Chief
Amazing Stories publisher Kermit Woodall has announced Lloyd Penney of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is the publication’s new Editior-in-Chief. Penney succeeds fellow Canadian Ira Nayman in this position and Steve Davidson who operated as temporary editor. Penney has been in science
Cats Sleep on SFF: The Sandman
A. J. Bobo tells File 770 readers: This excellent cat is named Pickle Dog. We just call her PD. She likes to believe that cats and The Sandman go very well together. She’s correct. Photos of your felines (or whatever
Pixel Scroll 11/3/22 And When The File Breaks The Pixel Will Scroll
GATHERING NOMINATIONS. The BSFA Awards 2022: Longlist Nominations are open. According to their tweet anyone can suggest works. However, only BSFA members have a vote in the outcome. (2) THE STARS MY QUESTIONATION. LearnedLeague has another SF-related quiz, this
Sucharitkul Opera Opens in Germany
Somtow Sucharitkul’s opera Helena Citrónová, based on an Auschwitz prisoner’s relationship with an SS guard, has opened in the Bavarian town of Hof in Germany. As Director Lothar Krause describes it: “Sucharitkul’s work asks questions to which there are no
Steve Davidson Will Stop Running Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories’ Steve Davidson announced today he is stepping down as acting Editor and stepping away as Publisher of the Experimenter Publishing Company. Kermit Woodall, long-time Creative Director, will be taking over responsibilities for staffing, payments, and all ongoing creative
Pixel Scroll 11/2/22 Please Send In Two Hypercube Tops As Proof Of Ob, To Receive Your Free Pixel Scroll Title
SCROLL LITE. Still full of symptoms, but a bit more energetic than yesterday. Yay! (1) WHAT DO YOU KNOW? You can catch up on the results of two genre-oriented trivia events at LearnedLeague. The One-Day Special quiz for The
100 Year Starship Announces Canopus Award Contest Opens, Adds Category For Africa Writers
The 2023 100 Year Starship (100YSS) Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Writing, a prize recognizing the finest fiction and non-fiction works that expand our understanding of the challenges, opportunities, pitfalls, and rewards of interstellar space exploration, is now open
Octocon 2022
By James Bacon: , the Irish National SF convention, emerged from the pandemic to successfully present a hybrid event in a new venue and it went very well. It was so nice to be home amongst fans in Dublin
Pixel Scroll 11/1/22 IOU A Title
MERGER DERAILED. “Court Blocks Penguin Random House, S&S Merger” reports Publishers Weekly. A federal court has blocked Penguin Random House’s acquisition of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster. At press time, Judge Florence Y. Pan’s opinion was not
Top 10 Stories for October 2022
Two contributions by Jonathan Cowie have enjoyed numerous spikes of interest on social media since there were posted this month. The first was about his visit to the SF Museum Exhibition in Kensington, London. The second tells the saga of
Pixel Scroll 10/31/22 I Have Squandered All My Pixels On A Pocketful Of Hugos
MIKE’S ALL HALLOWS’ EVE PLAGUE POSTING. These days when symptoms – like a runny nose – show up you don’t just say, “Hey I must be getting a cold.” So this morning I ran a home Covid-19 test and
Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour Taking Entries
The Future Worlds Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers of Colour is now open for submissions from unpublished writers of colour based in the UK and Ireland. The prize is now in its third year, and is funded by author Ben
Emails From Lake Woe-Is-Me — Fit the Fifty-Second
[Introduction: Melanie Stormm continues her humorous series of posts about the misdirected emails she’s been getting. Stormm is a multiracial writer who writes fiction, poetry, and audio theatre. Her novella, Last Poet of Wyrld’s End
AWARDS
2021 Shirley Jackson Awards
The were presented in-person on October 29 as part of the Boston Book Festival, in partnership with Readercon. The juried award is given for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. NOVEL
2022 Arthur C. Clarke Awards
The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation has announced the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award winners. (Note: This is a different honor than the literary Arthur C. Clarke Award.) On November 16, the Clarke Foundation in Washington, D.C., will host Unleash Imagination, including these 2022
Prix Utopiales BD 2022
The winner of the Prix Utopiales BD (BD = Bande Dessinée = Comic Strip) for 2022 was announced at Utopiales, the International Science Fiction Festival of Nantes, on October 31. The winner is Elene Usdin for “René e aux bois dormants” (Éditions
