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 […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Pixel Scroll 4/5/25 Oh, Scroll Us The Way To The Next Pixel Bar, Oh Don’t Ask Why (1) PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS. The 2025 Hugo finalists won’t be publicly announced until tomorrow at Noon, but […]

Paul Weimer Review: The River Has Roots By Paul Weimer: Two sisters, Esther and Ysabel, the Hawthorns, devoted toward each other, living on the borderland of faerie. A love story, not so much as between […]

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 […]

The Fantastic Four Travel Back to the Birth of the Universe in Upcoming One World Under Doom Tie-Ins Learn what lies ahead in One World Under Doom with the reveal of June’s tie-in issues, including […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Cat Eldridge Review: Folkmanis Puppet: The Fiddler By Cat Eldridge: You know already that I collect very cool things and the Fiddler puppet from Folkmanis that’s looking down upon me from a bookshelf is no […]

Pixel Scroll 12/28/24 A Credential, A Houyhnhnm, And A Gor Priest-King Walk Into Barsoom (1) ’69 IS DIVINE. Galactic Journey delivers kudos to the finest sff of 55 years ago: “[December 26, 1969] A Wreath […]

Pixel Scroll 12/21/24 A Short Scroll For The Shortest Day (0) I’m visiting my brother to help celebrate his birthday. That’s my real excuse! (1) EATING THE FANTASTIC. Scott Edelman invites listeners to settle in […]

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 […]

Tel Aviv Worldcon Bid Will Shift from 2027 to Later Year The committee to hold the Worldcon in Tel Aviv, Israel has announced they are no longer bidding for 2027 but will aim for a […]

Top 10 Stories for November 2024 In last month’s most-read post, File 770 was able to establish that two of the major accusations Erin Cairns levied against Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki in a report that circulated […]

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 […]

Rollacrit Revives, Updates ThinkGeek Messenger Bag of Holding By Daniel P. Dern: If your bag of choice to, ahem, hold your stuff in was the original ThinkGeek Messenger Bag Of Holding (“R/MBoH”) and yours has […]

Pixel Scroll 11/9/24 Tea In Hand, I’ve Been Watching Pixels Playing In The Autumn Leaves (1) FRONT LINE GAMERS. The ChrisO_wiki on X.com has a long thread about the popularity of Warhammer 40,000 imagery among […]

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 […]

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 […]

Which Is Better For Your Health – Video Games Or Exercise? By Jonathan Cowie: This is not a trivial question for SF fans as common perception (be it correct or not) has it that a […]

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 […]