AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: November 19, 2023

Remembering Fans Who Were Activists in Real World Politics and the Counter Culture Stirred to action by a particularly stupid and dismissive media generalization about science fiction fans, Rob Hansen has prepared this collection of […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: November 12, 2023

National Toy Hall of Fame Inductees for 2023 The National Toy Hall of Fame revealed four inductees for 2023 on November 9 — baseball cards, Cabbage Patch Kids, Fisher Price Corn-Popper, and NERF. The Fisher-Price Corn Popper is […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: October 29, 2023

2023 Pegasus Awards The 2023 Pegasus Awards for excellence in filking were announced on October 28 at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF). BEST FILK SONG BEST CLASSIC FILK SONG BEST PERFORMER BEST WRITER/COMPOSER BEST ADAPTED SONG [Tie] […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: October 8, 2023

Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 4 Arriving On October 17 Pyr Books will release The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 2 edited by Paula Guran. It’s the fourth from the current publisher, […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: September 24, 2023

Lis Carey Review: Chasm City Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (Trantor Audio, 2009) Review by Lis Carey: Chasm City is set in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe, a century or so after the events of The Prefect and Elysium Fire. […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: September 10, 2023

Straczynski Gives Harlan Ellison Book Updates J. Michael Straczynski, executor of Harlan and Susan Ellison’s estate, including Harlan’s literary estate, announced Ellison’s Greatest Hits collection is available for preorder. JMS posted on X: Hey check […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: September 3, 2023

Worldcon Wayback Machine: Friday at ConFrancisco (1993) Day 2 Worldcon Wayback Machine Introduction: Thirty years ago this weekend ConFrancisco, the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, was held in San Francisco, California. I thought it would fun […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: August 20, 2023

Garth Spencer: What I Did On My Summer Vacation [Reprinted by permission of the author.] By Garth Spencer: THE CANADIAN UNITY FAN FUND. The Canadian Unity Fan Fund was conceived to represent distant fan communities […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: August 13, 2023

Review: Folkmanis Beaked Dragon Folkmanis Beaked Dragon Hand Puppet By Lis Carey: Meet Gwenna, the newest arrival in the Carey household. She’s been here for a few weeks, but I couldn’t introduce her to you until I coaxed […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: August 6, 2023

The Complete Yeti By SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie: The idea of hairy, ape-like creatures roaming around the Himalayas has been around for centuries. But could the yeti actually be real? The BBC Radio 4 Yeti series has […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: July 30, 2023

Celebrating David Amram and “The Manchurian Candidate” By Steve Vertlieb: It had been a dream of mine for fifty-five years to finally meet iconic film composer David Amram. This ninety-one-year-old powerhouse classical, jazz, and motion […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: July 23, 2023

Gareth L. Powell: An Introduction to Iain M. Banks [Editor’s Note: Gareth Powell is a British SF writer who has written three series, to wit the Ack-Ack Macaque series with airships and cigar-smoking-monkey fighter pilots, and the Embers of […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: July 16, 2023

2022 Shirley Jackson Awards The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 15 at Readercon 32 in Quincy, Massachusetts. The juried award is given for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: July 9, 2023

Steve Vertlieb’s Bernard Herrmann Favorites By Steve Vertlieb: Elmer Bernstein once commented that, in his considered opinion, Bernard Herrmann and Miklos Rozsa were the two greatest practitioners of symphonic motion picture composition in the long […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: July 2, 2023

Toy Review: Batman Utility Belt Where does he get those wonderful toys! – The Joker, Batman Review by Ian Delaney: Batman is famous for two possessions: the high-speed, highly armored Batmobile, and the utility belt. The utility […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: June 25, 2023

Lis Carey Reviews: FanTaminals Cocker Spaniel Scroll Wood Puzzle FanTaminals Cocker Spaniel Scroll Wood PuzzleMade by Judy PetersonRochester, NY Review by Lis Carey At Boskone for several years, I’ve been seeing Judy Peterson and her […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: June 11, 2023

Toy Review: Staff of Ra Headpiece A bronze piece, about this size, with a hole in it, off-center,with a crystal. – Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark Review by Iain Delaney: The Headpiece of the Staff of […]

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AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: May 14, 2023

Music By James Bernard: Themes for a Tapestry of Terror By Steve Vertlieb: While science fiction in cinema has always enjoyed enormous popularity around the world, dating back to George Melies 1902 experimental short A […]

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