Genre Penetration of Streaming Services: 1/30/24
How is genre doing with the streaming services in this new day and age of “Industrialized Science Fiction”? JustWatch will let you know – In Film – 30% of the most viewed films were genre […]
How is genre doing with the streaming services in this new day and age of “Industrialized Science Fiction”? JustWatch will let you know – In Film – 30% of the most viewed films were genre […]
Hugo roundup now under “Kerfuffle Shuffle” headline. Apologies, explanations in translated Chinese, attorneys on Twitch, and other news that pales in comparison
Barkley — So Glad You (Didn’t) Ask #80 Chengdu 2023: A Bittersweet Symphony of a Worldcon I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been down Been down Ever been down Ever been down […]
Chengdu Worldcon nominating shenanigans, Sports Illustrated, Chatbots trained for EVIL, Discworld on sale, Boskone, Nebula Conference, Jim Freund, Nnedi Okorafor, Ron Miller, Chris Nuttall, more
The Heinlein Society Scholarship Application Deadline 4/1/24 The Heinlein Society has opened its thirteenth annual scholarship essay contest for the 2024 – 2025 academic year. Four $4,000 scholarships will be awarded to undergraduate students of accredited 4-year colleges […]
Well, the other shoe has dropped on the 2023 Hugo Awards voting and I won’t say “I told you so” – yet – but there are several nominees that were deemed “ineligible” by the awards […]
What you can expect to find here this coming week – plus there is always more added!
First Moon Landing Mission in Decades First Moon Landing in Decades will NOT happen NASA’s Artemis missions delayed Forget Ralph Milne Farley’s Radio Planet, now we’ve got Giant Radio Rings in space 15 Upcoming Science […]
David J. Skal (1952-2024) [Film scholar and longtime member of The Classic Horror Film Board died in an auto accident on January 1. David Colton wrote a tribute on Facebook which he has kindly given […]
The Fannish Inquisition we SHOULD expect.
Sakinah Hofler Accepts the 2023 Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices Sakinah Hofler, winner of the 2023 Analog Award For Emerging Black Voices, made an impressive acceptance speech to audience of the online 8th Annual City […]
Brin, Supreme Court, Journalists, AI, Navajo Nation, Mars, Tom Easton, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, CORFLU, PKD, Rolling Stone, you know, the usual!
Vote for the final quarter of 2023’s Amazing Stories Reader’s Choice Awards!
Journey Planet: Watchmen Now Online “Who Watches the Watchmen?” Well, WE do, and we have been watching for almost forty years! The latest issue of the multiple-award-winning fanzine Journey Planet takes a look at the […]
Ellen Datlow, Adam Gaffen, David Agranoff, Daniel Salvo, SMOF News, OpenAI, Scientology, Black Holes, Robert Heinlein, Voyager, Al Sirois and the South Florida Science Fiction Society – all in our year’s end news roundup!
It may surprise you to learn that Science Fiction Fandom was not born into an harmonious world. It was in fact contentious almost from the very beginning. Several factions were in play early on, with […]
Uncanny Magazine Issue 56 Launches January 2 The 56th issue of the Uncanny Magazine, winner of seven Hugos and a British Fantasy Award, will be available on January 2 at uncannymagazine.com. Hugo Award-winning Publishers Lynne M. Thomas and […]
Two magazines edited and largely populated by members of The Futurians
A look at the UK’s 1950 companion to New Worlds – Science Fantasy
A crowdfunder for Paul Jenkins, for legal and medical expenses has been launched.
This is one of my favorites. And it may be a favorite because I was able to pick up the entire run of the digest editions in one go, for a very reasonable price…either at […]
Since its debut as the world’s first magazine devoted exclusively to the Science Fiction genre in 1926 (also, first genre definition in the editorial and first home for Fandom in the letters column), Amazing Stories […]
A cornucopia of SF magazine first issues
From 1931: Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories
Người Mặt Trời Exhibition by Viet Max and Film by Timothy Linh Búi Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam Introduction: Stunning art inspired by a brilliant film, our Irish fan momentarily in Vietnam looks at […]
Comet Stories of Super Time and Space featured in today’s V1N1 collection write up.
An interview with the author of Worldconned: How China Co-Opted Sci-Fi’s Crown Jewel Amidst the Uyghur Genocide.
“Instead of helping envision a better future for humanity, Worldcon might have actually helped further Chinese repression.”
Lis Carey Review: Chaos on CatNet Chaos on CatNet (CatNet #2) by Naomi Kritzer (author), Casey Turner (narrator), Corey Gagne (narrator) (Audible, 2021) By Lis Carey: Steph and her mother are no longer on the […]
APAs Everywhere – Fred Lerner, Christina Lake, Amy Thomson and Tom Whitmore – December 9, 2023 – 2PM EST, 11AM PST and 7PM London GMT
Larry Charet is a comic book legend. He opened one of the first comic shops in 1972, and co-founded the Chicago Comicon in 1976. He has been to every show since then, and has helped […]
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