Fannish News: Generally more interesting, more uplifting and with far more genre content than mundane news!

What have your fellow fans been reading about that you’ve missed? “Binge-watch” the week with our roundup of the most popular posts

Religion at cons, another award for Mary Robinette, more Uncanny magazine, and a Covid Journey Planet

LASFS, Fan Funds and the Haldeman’s feature in three upcoming Zoom episodes of the Fan History Project

Several of our contributors are on award short lists (which suggests that we publish quality content!)

META has a (new) Super Computer; Tennessee Nazis begin banning library books; SF by Women from the 80s & 90s; more

Captain Future – not your grandma’s Space Opera!

Are cats sabotaging our society? Can romance and SF get along? Will the inflatoplane really fly? These and other startling questions asked today on Amazing News!

Discon III issues final covid report; Nasfic bids, Clarion West, Queen’s Own Sciencefictioneers and more

Zendaya rocks the red carpet, Michelle Yeoh in new trailer, the biggest space telescope of all time is on its way, reality may not be all that real, you’ll miss 25 minutes of The Expanse, and much more today in Amazing News!

Reports, including Covid exposures, from Discon III; con reporting, 2021 Hugo Awards, more

New words, new Star Wars animation, new Dick Heads podcast, new book release, new Bruce Campbell…not so new Foundation criticism….

Saturns, SFPA, Chesley and other awards; scrolls, scrolls and Discon III (Bet you thought I was going to write “scrolls” again….)

Librarians, David Brin, Wiliam Shatner, Artificial Intelligence, Stan Lee, Robert Heinlein, Babylon 5…it’s a Big Names in Genre week!

Clark, Saturn, British Fantasy awards, Barkley, Strauss, Marvel, Librarians and Banned Books

Jay Kay Klein photo archive updated The case for more passive protagonists (aggressive ones are tools of the patriarchy – except…what’s the definition of “protagonist”? Elvira comes out as gay.  Maybe SHE should have played […]

New releases; astronauts honored, spacedrives, fanzine archvives and the perpetual more.

Ignoble awards, Deutsch Preis, Michael Bishop, Star Trek Day

New Releases, Jack Chalker profile, Mars rover news, Adam-Troy Castro, more

Disney still not paying; RIP Carol Carr, L. Neil Smith, new Discon Asst. Chairs

Erle Korshak, Trek vs Wars, Tim Kirk illos, JAXA “rot, moreating” rocket engine, Soviet LoTR, more

Asimov Reader Awards, Ned Kellys, top self-published covers, Erle Korshak, more

Convention Covid Policies; nuclear fusion, new chain mail and comparative space stations.

Self-pubbed covers, Munsey award, Convention Covid Policies, Star Trek villians and Twitter bans….

Dangerous visions, Dublin SMOF scholarships, Dragon ballot, the ships of Star Wars, (obviously) more

When is an astronaut not an astronaut? When they don’t “go somewhere” in space.

Lynne Fahnestalk, robot and rocketship sculptor retires

Changes, DUST, On Spec review, New Anime releases, TV show, more

Mercury 13 Astronut to go to space; cuttlefish may hold intelligence key; answer to Dick’s question and more (but not much)