AMAZING NEWS: 3/26/23

Special Note:  Apologies to R. Graeme Cameron and the readers of BCSFAZINE.  Graeme sent along the release of the most recent issue and I never got around to posting it in a previous news post.  Now he is looking for contributors for the next issue, here. The earlier issue can be found here

And here’s the TOC to whet your appetites:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
02) – EDITORIAL: THE GOD EDITOR SPEAKS – “The Graeme”
04) – BEHIND THE SCENES AT BCSFAZINE – Vaughn Fraser
06) – PREPARE TO JOIN W.C.S.F.A. – The Graeme
10) – FANNISH NEWS AND RESOURCES – Garth Spencer & The Graeme
19) – YOUR MONTHLY CORUSCATING CONUNDRUM – The Graeme
20) – VCON ONE – 1973
21) – THE VANCOUVER AREA FLYING SAUCER CLUB – 1950s
23) – GENERI-CON – 1987
27) – SURF NAZIS MUST DIE! – Movie Review – The Graeme
30) – CONFRANCISCO WORLDCON – 1993 – Paul Carpentier
32) – ZORYANY SHLYAH SPEAKS! – Kiev Club 1990 – Alexander V. Vasilkovsky
36) – BLAZING AMAZING: HOW NOT TO EDIT A PROGRAM BOOK – The Graeme
40) – UPCOMING CONVENTIONS AND EVENTS – Garth Spencer
43) – OOK! OOK! SLOBBER DROOL! – LETTERS OF COMMENT: John Purcell, Robert
Runté, Ed Beauregard, Felicity Walker, Fran Skene, Lloyd Penney, Andrew C.
Murdoch, Steve Forty, Rhea E. Rose, Steve Fahnestalk, Nic Farey, Spider Robinson,
Robert J. Sawyer, & Garth Spencer.

Taral Wayne posted the panels of a comic strip he created that didn’t get picked up

A Wookied has died.  Actor Paul Grant passes

Up Coming Launches and other Celestial Happenings

Polish Fans Issue Take Down Notice to Chengdu Worldcon, demand GoH be unseated

The WGA Announces that it may endorse AI scripting – as a “tool”

Book Bans Hit Record High

Brandon Sanderson Gets Hung by The Wire

Paul Levinson’s story It’s Real Life gets the radio play treatment

Stop Calling Them “Films” – they’re not

Internet Archive loses Copyfight, will appeal

Borys Sidyiuk (our Ukrainian Fan Friend) sent along notice that the Ukrainian SF author Max Kidruk, a rising SF Star, presented a reading of his latest New Dark Ages: Colony in Kyiv to one of the largest audiences I’ve ever seen at an SF book reading.  (Borys promises more images that we’ll publish right here.)  All the more reason to sign that petition protesting a certain genocidally-minded Russian author’s selection as the Chengdu Worldcon’s GoH.  (Cause if he had his way, things like this presentation would not happen, if I really need to make such a point.)

Farah Mendlesohn announced on the JOF (Journeymen of Fandom) Facebook page that Dream Foundry announced that Con or Bust is has started a new initiative to bring “Palestinian Fans” to Worldcons, funded by a donation from Farah herself.

(What about Israeli Fans?)

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