- Classics of Science Fiction at the 2025 WorldconBy John Hertz: This year’s World Science Fiction Convention World Science Fiction Convention (the 83rd Worldcon, gosh) will be held August 13-17 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel and the Convention Center Summit Building in Seattle, Washington. No response from the … Continue reading
- 2025 Diana Jones AwardThe 2025 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming was presented at the annual Diana Jones Award ceremony in Indianapolis on July 30, the unofficial start of the Gen Con Indy convention. The award is given to the person, product, company, event … Continue reading
- 2025 ENnie AwardsThe 2025 ENnie Awards winners were announced at Gen Con on August 1. The ENnie Awards are an annual, fan-based juried award system for all tabletop RPGs. The ENnies were created in 2001 as an annual award ceremony, hosted by the … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 8/2/25 Once Again The Day Is Saved By The Pixelpuff Files!(1) EDMONTON VIRTUAL BID PARTY ON AUGUST 16. The Edmonton in 2030 Worldcon bid team, aware that a significant number of the fans they want to reach aren’t going to the USA this year for the Seattle Worldcon, have planned … Continue reading
- Ben Jason and the Early History of the Hugo RocketINTRODUCTION. Meet Ohio fan Bill Mallardi, who co-edited Double:Bill with Bill Bowers in the Sixties. They also published the Double:Bill Symposium, a famous survey of sf pros completed in 1969 that is still worth your attention. Mallardi has sent File 770 … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 8/1/25 I’ll Scroll What Pixel’s Scrolling(1) DRENCHED IN PURPLE AND MAGENTA. Leah Schnelbach gets to be a fan of two shows for the price of one: “Premium Quality Entertainment: The Joys of Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon” at Reactor. (Beware spoilers.) …From the books, I imagined Sanctuary … Continue reading
- Top 10 Stories for July 2025Tammy Coxen’s op-ed criticizing weaknesses of the Montréal bid, “The Worldcon is in Trouble”, had the most readers of any File 770 post in July. And the Montréal committee’s op-ed in response ranked fifth, showing prospective voters’ concern about a … Continue reading
- In Search of Alien[Introduction: Steve Vertlieb’s review of Alien was originally published in George Stover’s Cinemacabre Magazine in Fall 1979.] By Steve Vertlieb: It is difficult to erase from memory the bizarre and frightening imagery of Ridley Scott’ s Alien, a disturbing submission to … Continue reading
- Pixel Scroll 7/31/25 The Moving Pixel Scrolls, And Having Scrolled, Files On(1) WHAT ABOUT SOME MIDDLE-EARTH FOLDING MONEY? The Tolkien Society has today written to the Bank of England to suggest they feature J.R.R. Tolkien on a future bank note. “Society calls for Tolkien to feature on a new bank note”. … Continue reading
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