2023 Hugo Finalist Voting Statistics Posted The 2023 Hugo Awards were presented October 21 during a ceremony at the Chengdu Worldcon. Today the committee released the voting statistics for the finalists, which show how the […]

Meeting Piltdown By Lee Weinstein: When I was a child, my father gave me a set of the illustrated New World Family Encyclopedia, published in 1954. One illustration that burned itself into my brain was […]

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 […]

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 […]

Pixel Scroll 11/4/23 Pixels Of The Night, From Pixelated Pixelvania (1) APPRECIATING A FINE ANTIQUE. James Davis Nicoll has a new assignment for the Young People Read Old SF panel. This month’s Young People Read […]

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] […]

Help! Timmy Fell In The Gravity Well! By Daniel Dern: Eric Mowbray Knight’s best known character is probably Lassie (the canine), from his 1940 novel, Lassie Come-Home, which went on to begat the TV series […]

Toy Review: Exterminate! Exterminate! — A Dalek, Dr. Who By Iain Delaney: Dr Who started in 1963 and ran until 1985. They revived it in 2005 and has been running (more or less) continuously ever since. […]

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, […]

Top 10 Stories for September 2023 The Dragon Award winners post was the only news story to hold its head above the flood of Pixel Scrolls in September. However, Harlan Ellison news and the Big […]

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. […]

The Many Pieces of One Piece By Michaele Jordan: Let me tell you about One Piece! ALL about it! There’s a story in that. Naturally, I always start my reviews with the production credits.  Fair […]

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 […]

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 […]

Pixel Scroll 8/26/23 It Was An Early Evening Pixel And The Scroll Had Just Opened Up (0) SCROLL LITE. I’m not feeling well today, so let’s make this a do-it-yourself Scroll. Add links in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lis Carey Reviews: Ancillary Sword Breq, formerly the AI controlling the warship Justice of Toren, is now confined to one body, an officer of the Radch, commanding the ship Mercy of Kalr, and has been […]

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 […]

Lis Carey Review: Ancillary Justice Breq is, when we meet her, the sole surviving segment of the the Radch troop ship Justice of Toren. What it takes a while for us to find out is […]

Jim Shull Rediscovered By Gary Farber: Holy mother of Ghu-Ghu, Foo-Foo, and Roscoe! I sent Jim Shull a Friend Request a few years ago after noticing him on Facebook and realizing that he must be […]

Cider Reviews Sockeye Salmon Dog Treats Introduction: Did you know that dogs can’t eat tuna? Well they can’t but they certainly can eat salmon. (No, I don’t know why one fish is good and one […]

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 […]