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 […]
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This Week’s News Is Brought To You By – The Spanish Language Edition of Amazing Stories – Historias Increible AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS Somtow Sucharitkul has won a Pencraft Literary Award for his novel Imperatrix Vincent […]
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 […]
FINALISTAS del III Premio Internacional de ÁLBUM ILUSTRADO de Fantasía y Ciencia Ficción ELIA BARCELÓ FINALISTAS del III Premio Internacional de ÁLBUM ILUSTRADO de Fantasía y Ciencia Ficción ELIA BARCELÓ (entre las 85 obras presentadas). […]
This post first appeared in the Roswell Daily Record… This is one of my favorite columns of the year to write – my annual roundup of new and new-to-me cookbooks with a science fiction, fantasy […]
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 […]
Fourth Quarter 2023 Reader’s Choice Awards Announced!
Orson Welles narrates H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds
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 […]
Imagine, if you will, me writing about London! I know it’s a big stretch of the imagination, but all of us have that bent towards the unimaginable. We are, after all, sci-fi people. As per […]
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 […]
James Davis Nicoll recently published an article in the Seattle Worldcon’s newsletter titles “The PLight of Modern Young Adult Science Fiction” – for which he is taking a little heat, and which also touches on […]
Dublin 2029 Worldcon Bid Site Visit By James Bacon: The Dublin 2029 bid co-chairs Margeurite Smith and Brian Nisbet organized a site visit of the venues where they hope to host the Worldcon in 2029. […]
Blame it on Boskone. Blaming the long-established Boston science fiction convention with its superb art show absolves Russ Handelman and me for turning us into art collectors. Before Boskone, I had been picking up the […]
Pixel Scroll 9/28/24 Owner Of A Pixel Scroll (1) COURT STRIKES DOWN MARVEL, DC ‘SUPER HERO’ TRADEMARK. Bleeding Cool tells how it happened: “US Court States Marvel And DC Have Lost Their Super Hero Trademark”. […]
Pics or proof, right? When you face the possibility of confronting gothic horrors – as one might at the Providence Athenaeum, a frequent haunt of Edgar Allen Poe, it might be best to be prepared […]
I spent the morning preparing for and then traveling the roughly half hour to visit Ultracon at the South Florida Expo Center at the South Florida State Fairgrounds. The trip was pretty straight forward, made […]
Pics or no proof, right? Here you go: the Enterprise’s transporter in Quick Change mode! Before beaming down to whatever planet he is currently gracing with his presence, David Gerrold has programmed the transporter (oh, […]
Celebrating Frank Capra’s “Wonderful Life,” And Ethereal “Lost Horizons” By Steve Vertlieb: During a particularly sad and lonely Christmas for my friend and hero, I wrote the brilliant motion picture director Frank Capra a few […]
And here is living proof! Dr. Lisa Yaszek – Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech (and if you’ve ever had to mail her something, that fills up […]
Top 10 Stories for August 2024 The mainstream media picked up two File 770 news articles in August, recognizing the work we do here. File 770’s announcement of the 2024 Hugo Award winners – destined […]
Conventions are very special events for Fans…an in-gathering of the clans, a chance to hobnob, to learn, to relax and to have a great time hanging out with “Your People”. And “Your people” won’t have […]
Pixel Scroll 8/24/24 I Scroll Of Pixels (1) NOW IN HIS MEMORY GREEN. Ian Mond has been catching up with his TBR pile at The Hysterical Hamster: “Books Read: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight […]
Pixel Scroll 8/17/24 Stand By Your Slan In The High Castle On Zanzibar (1) A DIFFERENT KIND OF MEMORY HOLE. [Item by Mike Kennedy.] <Hammer bangs> Sold! That’s €1,275,000 for lot number 487, Mona Lisa’s […]
In the mid to late 1930s the current site of the Hilton Garden Inn in Indianapolis Indiana was known as The Fletcher Trust Building. A stenographer and secretary who worked for the company was a […]
The 2024 Aurora Awards for excellence by Canadians in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror were awarded yesterday. Best Novel: The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield, HarperVoyager Best YA Novel: Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Cherie Dimaline, Tundra Books […]
LAcon V Wins 2026 Site Selection Vote The 84th Worldcon will be held in Anaheim, California from August 27-31, 2026 in the Anaheim Convention Center, the Hilton Anaheim and Anaheim Marriott. The convention will be […]
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