NEWS FROM FANDOM: April 7, 2019
Awards, awards, awards: Vonda McIntyre tributes, talking about awards and, some very funny pixel scroll titles
Awards, awards, awards: Vonda McIntyre tributes, talking about awards and, some very funny pixel scroll titles
Tonopah bid, Gemmel’s cancelled, more (too much) Ed Kramer, odes to A. Bertram Chandler and more3
Feminist science-fiction festival in Bilbao will focus on Mary Shelley’s Creature
A plethora of awards and nominations, plus, Cats sleep on Robert Heinlein
Monday may be an historic day for Amazing Stories
Doris Sutherland continues her review of Amazing Stories’ early history. including letter column praise for H.P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space.
A contest for stories for an anthology commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and Feminism as portrayed through science fiction and fantasy television series.
Kitchies, Audies, Inkies, Lambdas, Baen Memorials, Rhyslings, Sturgeons, NASFiC selection, Hugo Nominations close, Bradbury all the time….
Steve says farewell to another fannish friend, David E. Wilson, longtime Vancouver fan. And says “Meh” to the new animated Grinch.
The bigoted backlash against Brie Larson and female-led superhero films may very well have back-fired.
A video conference with Luis Vigil, editor of the magazine New Dimension
Author DL Gardner will be appearing on FB’s Fantasy and Sci F;s Reader’s Lounge
Commentary on 20books-gate (lots); Academy Awards, Ellison correction online; pixel scroll. What’s not to like?
You can’t keep a good kerfuffle down! Notes on how to avoid starting a kerfuffle and related fuffle.
A story about Cordwainer Smith and the Instrumentality of Mankind wins an award
Gernsback introduced Amazing Stories Quarterly when readers begged him to take the magazine weekly. Here’s the first issue.
Ruling in Worldcon v s JDA suit (not final); rebooted Twilight Zone, PKD Filmfest goes bi-coastal and more fun fan news!
The Fan History Project has prepared an exhaustive list of scanned issues of fanzines that are eligible for this year’s Retro Hugo Awards. Time to get reading!
This week Steve repurposes and re-edits an old column, hoping it will be new to at least some of you. It’s all about conventions and nametags, anyway, so if you’re not interested, go watch the snow or something.
(Ed’s inside joke: No orcas yet…)
Today, an Interview with Héctor Espadas López Tello, author of “The Last City of the World”
Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories.
Steve has been a passionate fan of science fiction since the mid-60s, before he even knew what it was called.

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