AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: May 18, 2025

The Launch of Fan SF/F Awards By Dave Doering: While reviewing old fanzines of our early convention era, I note some curious parallels between the launch of the British “International Fantasy Award” (IFA) and the […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: May 11, 2025

Attention Faneds! Classic Fanzine Art Available By Dave Rowe: Bill Mallardi has released 78 illos and cartoons that would have appeared in Double:Bill (and maybe some of them did), which makes them over 55 years old […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: May 4, 2025

Pixel Scroll 5/3/25 Glorious Pixelcolor, Breathtaking Cinema Scroll, And Godstalkophonic Sound (0) Scroll lite today because I will be attending a dinner to celebrate my daughter’s graduation with a Master’s in Social Work. Congratulations Sierra! […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: April 27, 2025

Jennifer Stevenson Review: One Level Down By Jennifer Stevenson: This I also swallowed at a sitting. It’s about women, it ends well, and it is science fiction, I guess, if stories about multiverses created by […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: April 20, 2025

Pixel Scroll 4/19/25 Pixel Your Shelves With Your Books On A Flivver With Tatooine Seas And Frazetta Skies (1) CLUTCH HITS. To mark the weekend, Guardian critics present their favorite cinematic Easter eggs – “Pink […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: April 13, 2025

2025 Sir Julius Vogel Finalists The 2025 Sir Julius Vogel Award finalists were announced March 16. The awards recognize excellence in science fiction, fantasy, or horror works created by New Zealanders and New Zealand residents. The Sir […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 23, 2025

Chinese Science Fiction Database (CSFDB) Recommended List 2024 Reported by Arthur Liu & Feng Zhang: The Chinese Science Fiction Database (CSFDB)’s 2024  Recommended List  has been announced. The list is divided into 7 categories: Domestic/Translated […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 9, 2025

AI Tag Team: Dune vs. Popular Music ChatGPT does a deep dive on musical tributes to Frank Herbert’s classic (with some help). [Reprinted from Freakflag with permission.] By Rob Thornton. INTRODUCTION: We have seen a […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 2, 2025

AudioFile Magazine’s New Favorite SF and Fantasy Audiobooks of 2025 Audiofile Magazine highlights their favorite new sff audiobooks so far in 2025. DEATH OF THE AUTHOR REVIEW: Liz Femi is the primary narrator of this meta-narrative […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 23, 2025

Alex Ross Continues His Popular Timeless Variant Cover Program Alex Ross continues to bring Marvel’s greatest characters to life in a new batch of Timeless Variant Covers. Hitting shelves in May, the new covers feature […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 16, 2025

Pixel Scroll 2/15/25 When The Scroll Is Pixelled Up Yonder, I’ll Be There (1) THRILLERS OF GENRE INTEREST. CrimeReads shows an interesting group of cross-genre thrillers will arrive in bookstores this year: “Speculative Murder Mysteries […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 9, 2025

Producers Guild Awards 2025 The Producers Guild of America announced the 2025 Producers Guild Awards winners on February 8. The complete list of winners is at the link. Works of genre interest receiving awards were: Award for […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 2, 2025

Tähtivaeltaja Award 2025 Shortlist The 2025 Tähtivaeltaja (“Star Rover”) Award finalists have been posted. The award, sponsored by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society, goes to the best science fiction book published in Finland in the previous year. […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: January 26, 2025

Pixel Scroll 1/25/25 ‘Twas Pixel, And The Scrolly Toves (1) DISCOVER TANITH LEE. Astra Publishing House begins its recommendation “Where to start reading the works of Tanith Lee” with a fascinating reminiscence. DAW Publisher Betsy […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: December 15, 2024

2024 Horror Writers Association Scholarship Winners Announced The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced this year’s scholarship and grant recipients for the Dark Poetry, Mary Shelley, and HWA Scholarships, and the Diversity Grants. THE HORROR […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: November 24, 2024

Pixel Scroll 11/23/24 Virtual Pixels Just Scurry Around On Screens, Trying To Fake It (1) BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE SHORTLIST. The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Comic Fiction Prize shortlist includes two genre works — High Voltage and […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: November 3, 2024

Warner Holme Review: Dragonbane Game Tomad Härenstam’s Dragonbane (Free League, 2023) By Warner Holme: Tomad Härenstam’s Dragonbane is the latest iteration of Sweden’s first roleplaying game. This publication comes in the form of a boxed set from […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: October 27, 2024

Author Erin Cairns Charges Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki with “Unethical Practices” Erin Cairns, a South African-born white woman who moved to the U.S. with her parents when she was young, has published a 78-page memo charging […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: October 13, 2024

Pursuing the Ghost of Literary Fantasy By RL Thornton: In a previous article on Evangeline Walton’s Mabinogion series, I celebrated the term of “literary fantasy.” In my mind, we who explore the realm of speculative […]

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