2024 is a Leap Year, which means we all get an extra day. Please use it wisely, as there won’t be another one for four more years.
Amazing People News (A round-up of gathered news featuring individuals who have an association with Amazing Stories.) (If you are associated with Amazing Stories, please feel free to forward us your announcements, appearances, activities and accomplishments for inclusion here. You know if you are associated…)
F. J. Bergman has been named SFPA’s Grandmaster – congrats!
Collateral: Naturally, if the Hugos are experiencing controversy, it must be John Scalzi’s fault.
Richard Graeme Cameron reminds us that voting for the 2023 FAAN Awards concluded last night, at Midnight Pacific Time.
Al Sirois announces the publication of a short story in the latest issue of Black Cat Magazine
Paul Weimer shares more Hugos discussion on Birds of a Feather
David Agranoff reviews Norman Spinrad’s Riding the Torch
Michael Burstein’s Jewish Futures 2 is now accepting submissions
Camestros Felapton commenting on the Hugos has a three-parter, and a blog post titled “!!!!!!!!!!!!” (! – here’s one more for a baker’s dozen)
Cora Buhlert was a little less cryptic: Hugo Nomination Scandal Gets Worse
Via File 770: Ersatz Culture discusses Chinese business interference in the Hugo Awards
Gary Farber shares an NYT (gift) article about “zines”, and how they started in the 60s…
Rosemary Claire Smith is a finalist in the latest AnLab Awards
The third volume of Futures Past Visual History of the genre can now be ordered
(The Rest) of AMAZING NEWS
Nnedi Okorafor spoke in a talk at Harvard Radcliff
Now we know why some folks go into acting: Bridget Mendler, former Disney star, announces space comm startup
Space Junk! (Devo performed this one in 1976! Space Junk.)
A “Soda” lake in Canada could be replicating the conditions that led to the formation of life
For Black History Month: Space Race, a story of almost the first black astronaut
What will it be like to live in a Mars habitat for a year? This astronaut lets you know.
Samantha Mills discusses how it feels to have won a Hugo Award this past year
Was DUNE Plagiarized? And more. Some very curious similarities have been unearthed from a book titled The Sabre of Paradise
aaand The New Scientist weighs in with its own take on the Hugos
GUFF Fan Fund is now open for nominations
Kevin Drum thinks that social media ate the Hugos
Delta Airlines is offering a special Eclipse flight
Hugo Controversy Crap getting to be too much? Check out these photos of 3D recreations of some scenes from Star Trek: TOS
Ada Palmer opines on censorship: Most of it is self-censorship
Imaginary Papers reviews Oppenheimer and Interstellar
