Crime Fiction Awards Bulletin FINGERPRINT AWARDS Capital Crime, a crime fiction con in London, announced the winners of The Fingerprint Awards 2024 on May 30. OVERALL CRIME THRILLER HISTORICAL GENRE-BUSTING DEBUT TRUE CRIME AUDIO-BOOK THALIA PROCTER LIFETIME […]
The Glasgow Worldcon has released their convention schedule and it has Nine Hundred and Fifty Seven (957) program items listed between Wednesday, the 7th, and Monday, August 12th. For the math challenged, that’s 159.5 items […]
Toy review: M.I.B. Neuralyzer By Iain Delaney: Men in Black (1997) is an action-comedy-sci-fi movie based on the Malibu Comics series of the same name. It starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as agents ’K’ […]
Warner Holme Review: Firsts & Lasts Review by Warner Holme: Laura Silverman’s Firsts & Lasts is a themed anthology with a rather wide scope. While at first glance the concept is of covering important final […]
Interview With He Xi, 2024 Hugo Finalist INTRODUCTION: Eight Light Minutes(8LM) Culture of Chengdu has given permission for File 770 to reprint the series of interviews with Chinese science fiction writers which they have been running this week […]
…and I’m happy to see this being put before the membership at this year’s WSFS Business Meeting in Glasgow. (Read the announcement on File 770.) In fact, it’s almost exactly the proposal I called for […]
I started reading Science Fiction in the 1960s. I read contemporary works then, but also older works…stories from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. While there was plenty of new SF being published, there was even […]
Be the Change: For the Future of the Hugos by Paul Weimer EDITOR’S NOTE: In this sixth reprint from Journey Planet’s “Be the Change” issue, Paul Weimer urges future Worldcons to pledge that the persons […]
Award winning author Allen Steele will be making an appearance at His and Her Comics in Brookline Massachusetts to present his latest Captain Future tale – Lost Apollo – where he will be signing copies […]
Get Hansen’s New Volume of British SF Convention History Rob Hansen’s saga of early sf conventions in the UK continues with the release of British SF Conventions Volume 2: 1952-1957 on July 1. The 101,000-word […]
If you only know me from 25th century Five and Dime you might not be aware that my main field of study within the genre is legendary Hugo award-winning author Philip K. Dick. I have […]
We were blown away by Mary’s Lady Astronaut series of novels – The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky, The Relentless Moon and The Martian Contingency (we actually speculated that Apple’s For All Mankind was based […]
2024 Locus Awards Winners The Locus Science Fiction Foundation today announced winners of the 2024 Locus Awards during an in-person Locus Awards Ceremony in Oakland, California. The winners are: SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL FANTASY NOVEL HORROR NOVEL YOUNG ADULT […]
Disney vs. The Echhs-Men By Tim Marion: This one has left me so unsatisfied that I feel obligated to spoil it. Oh yes, there will be spoilers! The X-Men cartoon in the early 90s was […]
Lis Carey Review: Mammoths at the Gates Review by Lis Carey: Cleric Chih travels widely, gathering stories, with a talking hoopoe bird. The hoopoe, Almost Brilliant, has perfect recall and serves as Chih’s neixin, ensuring […]
I think the first song I ever heard that not only had an SFnal theme, but was written specifically to entice listeners to engage with the genre, was the theme song for Sylvia and Gerry […]
According to File 770, the Worldcon Heritage Organization is hoping to raise enough dollars to successfully bid on an upcoming auction for the very first Hugo Award ever given out, as well as another early […]
Lis Carey Review: How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub (Uncanny, February 2023) Review by Lis Carey: Trevor Hemley is an ambitious young man in 19th-century London. The precise period isn’t clear, but to […]
Do You Want To Own the First Hugo Award Ever Given? On June 7 the Hugo Award given to Forrest J Ackerman by Isaac Asimov at the 1953 Worldcon will be up for auction – […]
Prix Jacques-Brossard 2024 Alain Bergeron has won the Prix Jacques-Brossard, a juried award for French sff worth C$3,000 given to an author who has distinguished himself with a work or production published during the year. […]
Camille Alexa Review: Folkmanis Sea Serpent Puppet Review by Camille Alexa: Folkmanis has gained an excellent reputation in recent decades for its overwhelming array of puppets. The plushies range from eerily lifelike to utterly fantastical. Right […]
Most visitors here are at least passingly familiar with the Hugo Awards, the annual “Science Fiction Achievement Awards” that have been presented at World Science Fiction Society conventions (Worldcons) since 1953, and continuously since 1955. […]
Steven H Silver, author, Fan and occasional contributor to Amazing Stories was asked to edit the Holocaust themed issue of Journey Planet, the Hugo Award winning and multiply nominated collaborative ‘zine published by James Bacon […]
The serialization of Dave Creek’s Chanda’s Legacy continues tomorrow! AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS Bill Cunningham wants you to know that the 48th issue of The Paperback Fanatic is now available! Here’s a Booktrailer for David Brin’s […]
Cats Sleep on SFF: Becoming Terran Mark Roth-Whitworth introduces us to his cat of many names: This is my Lord & Master, after a hard morning, relaxing with a good book (my new one). Everyone […]
May 25, 1977, Star Wars* opens in 32 theaters nationwide and my friends and I were at the Eric theater in Pennsauken NJ, the closest of those 32 theaters to my home in Cherry Hill. […]
This will be a multi-part series of a developing situation. In 2021, the bid for a Chinese-based Worldcon won the selection bid. In 2023, Worldcon was held in Chengdu, Pidu, a district in and capitol […]
Robert Tilendis Review: Bissinger’s Carmelized Blood Orange Chocolate Candy Review by Robert Tilendis: Founded in France in the 17th century, Bissinger’s chocolates were favored by the luminaries of 18th and 19th century Europe, such as […]
Surprisingly, the first quarter of 2024 is already behind us, which means that it is time to vote for the Quarterly Reader’s Choice Award! Which Free story moved you, intrigued you, inspired you the most […]
2024 CWA Dagger Awards Longlists The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) of the United Kingdom announced the longlists for the 2024 Dagger Awards on April 20. The Daggers were first given in 1955, however, for the first five years […]
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