AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: December 11, 2022

(1) LEARNEDLEAGUE. [Item by David Goldfarb.] After a long drought, we get our second and third in the space of two days! LL95 match day 22 Q3: What 1898 novel, famous in its own right, is also famous for its presentation in … Continue reading →

J. Michael Straczynski has given Facebook readers an update about the accomplishments of the Harlan and Susan Ellison Foundation. An initial round of improvements has been made to the Ellison house: 1) The first stage of improvements/repairs to the house … Continue reading →

(1) AUTHOR SIGNING ANNOUNCED. Catherine Asaro is doing a signing/panel next week on Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022 at 7:00 pm in the Port Jefferson Library, NY with two other authors, Sarah Beth Durst and Kelley Skovron. If you can attend, … Continue reading →

The official ballot for the 2023 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund race [PDF file] has been released. Fans have until April 11, 2023 at 23:59 Pacific / -7 UTC to vote. The candidates are: Sandra BondNominators: John D. Berry (North America), Claire Brialey (Europe), … Continue reading →

Matthew Libby’s Sisters has won the 2022 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting. “Matthew Libby’s Sisters is a terrific piece of dramatic work that makes us think about the emotional dimensions of the intersection of lives and the digital,” said Dan Rockmore, director of … Continue reading →

The Game Awards 2022 winners were announced December 8 in a streaming award ceremony. Elden Ring was named Game of the Year and won three other awards. However, God of War Ragnarök was otherwise the star of the night, winning six … Continue reading →

(1) PETER WATTS Q&A. Media Death Cult’s Moid Moidelhoff hosts Peter Watts in “The Big Interview”. Peter Watts is a Canadian marine biologist who also writes awesome science fiction stories. We talked for about three hours, we will do it … Continue reading →

The Goodreads Choice Awards – Best Books 2022 winners have been posted. There were 5,779,854 votes cast (but since one could vote in every category, the number of individual voters must have been substantially smaller.) Here are the results of genre interest. … Continue reading →

(1) 2022 #BLACKSPECFIC. FIYAH has posted the 2022 #BlackSpecFic Report, an examination of the state of representation of Black authors within the speculative short fiction market published in 2021. This report was composed by L. D. Lewis and Nelson Rolon with … Continue reading →