Of Special Note
We’ve changed our formatting slightly. In cases where an original item is not publicly viewable, the first link is to the non-public mention, the second link is to the publicly accessible item.
Special Worldcon Gallery links included in this week’s news. See the Fandom section
Other Special Note
The Gaiman Accusations story is heating up. Check out this podcast for the latest
AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS
David Gerrold shares a wonderful Star Trek: TOS poster (“Everything and everyone” is in there)
Paul Di Filippo shares the publication of his latest story in Black Cat Weekly magazine
Black Gate magazine reviews The Weird Tales Boys, a book about Lovecraft, Howard and CA Smith
Scott Edelman shares a review of his collection Things That Never Happened
Michael Walsh shares PW’s coverage of Worldcon
Jason Sandford delivers his Worldcon Report
Fandom
Wilson Tucker profiled in 1940 newspaper article
From the general archive of Mexico, this mention of Amazing Stories
Ron Oakes has published his Hugo Award database. (Notes at the link)
Suzanne Tomkins shares an article about Banana Wings and the Fish Lifters.
Sara Felix shares her parting logo for Glasgow
Ann Vandermeer shares the joy of being asked to deliver the Welcome Address at Necronomicon
Worldcon Gallery
Regina Kanyu Wang images also on panels (friends only on FB)
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki – Gollancz party
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki receives second World Fantasy Award
Jim Burns with Robert Silverberg
Jim Burns & other artists in the artshow
Sandra Bond encounters the Bat Mobile (friends only on FB)
Nnedi Okorafor – a “worldcon photo dump”
Alex Shvartsman with Adrian Tchaikovsky and Leo Kaganov
Awards
Congrats to Rosemary Claire Smith for her Sidewise Award win!
Holly Schofield is happy to have won an Aurora Award, for her story that appeared in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction
Sara Felix announces that it is Tiara Day!
Farah Mendelsohn shares congratulations for John Coxon, Alison Scott, Liz Batty and Octothorpe for the Best Fancast Hugo Award win (not public facing)
The African Speculative Fiction Society announces its 2024 NOMMO Award Winners
Elena Gomel shares the 2024 Ozma Award for Fantasy Novels Long List (she’s on it!)
Space
Fantastic view from the ISS – the lights of the Polar Borealis
Science
Astronomers have identified a star that went nova and was seen in the night sky over 1,000 years ago
More fascinating archaeological finds at Pompeii
There may be “oceans” of water buried deep within Mars
Johannes Kepler’s sunspot drawings, the astronomical gift that keeps on giving
Tall buildings can become energy storage facilities
A giant “mudball” did the dinos in
Industry
Marc Shainblum reports on Bleeding Cool’s coverage of the DC/Marvel trademark fight over the use of “Superhero”
GM imagines the self-driving car, in this 1956 video
No One Buys Books – an inside look at publishing based on lawsuit transcripts
Literature
Mitch Wagner shares an article about John Varley in Discourse Magazine
Nnedi Okorafor shares the cover image from the UK edition of Death of the Author
Sandra Bond discusses the committee established to investigate a Hugo Award for Poetry (not public facing)
Art
Tony Cipriano shares a video of some incredible sculptures of iconic genre subjects!
Fred A Levy Haskkell shares a wonderful photograph
And Chip Delany shares another
Film & TV
“High Treason”, a 1930s film, features video phones and Heinleinian “‘freshers”. (Link to original Heinlein Forum post)
Erin Underwood (with Sarah G. Vincent) reviews Borderlands
Retro
Chris DeVito uncovers an Argentinian SF magazine from the 50s: 
Image shared from his FB post in the Paperback, Pulp and Book Collectors Anonymous group
The Old Sci Fi Art group shares some interesting retro SF images
Social Commentary
Musk’s AI photo manipulator is creating realistic images of Trump, Harris and Biden
If you are looking for more info on Project 2025, check this out
Netflix and other streaming services say that the era of “freeloading” is over (Sharing streamer access with someone? You better check this out.)
Just For Fun
A puppetry installation at Worldcon featured miniature pulp magazines and here
Mini-Editorial
As the election nears, we urge everyone to vote, register to vote if you aren’t AND regularly check your registration status, as there are groups out there working to disenfranchise as many voters as they possibly can. Note that we are not telling you HOW to vote, only that you should do so. A representative democracy (shove republic in there if you feel compelled to do so) isn’t representative if its citizens don’t participate by representing themselves!
In the Future
Monday: Free Fiction – My Art Only Kills Machines by Richard Karpala
Lanzamientos 2024 en ciencia ficción de escritores boliviano
Tuesday: The Big Idea: Tiffani Angus & Val Nolan
Wednesday: Unexpected Questions with Jerrod Balzer
Thursday: What Happened to the ALIEN from 1979?
Friday: Matt’s Reviews: Artificial Condition (Murderbot #2) by Martha Wells
Featured Image
This Week’s Featured Image is from Hélène Crucian’s Pulp Puppets Facebook Page
