Youtube Video On History of Amazing and Gernsback
Gernsback video kinda sorta almost gets the story straight
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Side-by-Side Cosplays Part 2
Cosplay and Crossplay coming to an MCM Comic Con near you (actually, London)
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 4-22-18
DUFF stats, Ringo out, Del Arroz Sues Worldcon and other eventful fannish stuff.
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 4-15-2018
Kitschies, Peabodies, de l’Imaginairies, WotFies, Ignoblies, Andersenies, Jim Burns tribute, Soylent Green, always more Bradbury and Ringo Con Controversy
AMAZING STORIES AT WORLDCON76 – SAN JOSE
Attend Worldcon, get a free copy of Amazing Stories
Noticias Literatura 11-4
Two new releases: The Star Wars Ideology and a doctoral thesis on Spanish Geek culture.
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM 3-25-2018
Unsolicited opinion, Kitsch, cats selecting fine literature and much more this week
FILM PROGRAM: Fanac’s Video Fan History Project
Tribute to Ike and a bit of inside baseball on fanzines
JO PHAN’S READS: This Week in Fanzines
Infinitely Improbable, Thog’s Masterclass and TWO editorials!
Review: That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction by Eric J. Guignard
As the editor of previous anthologies, Eric J. Guignard has an obvious eye for amassing gripping short stories fandom will enjoy reading.
Paul Giamatti And Stephen Colbert Are Science Fiction Nerds
Science Fiction culture is making its way onto the late show talk circuit.
NEWS FROM FANDOM: 3/18/18
Somnambulistic Feline Bibliophiles, Journey Planet’s Judge Dredd, awards, awards awards and some fannish news.
FILM PROGRAM: FANAC’S Fan History Films
Harry Harrison, Eastercon 1971 and Vincent di Fate, MagicCon, 1992
JO PHAN’S READS: This Week in Fanzines
Journeyu Planet 49 (Judge Dredd), Spartacus 25 and iOTA 16.
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 03/11/2018
Award season continues a pace; another legend of the genre dies; Readercon apologizes and Barkley argues award naming
FILM PROGRAM: Fanac’s Fan History Films
The First Worldcon, the first Australian Worldcon and John Bangsund, Fred Pohl, Dave Kyle, Bob Madle and Earle Korshak
JO PHAN’S READS: This Week in Fanzines
This week: Opuntia 407, Ray X X Rayer 139, Exhibition Hall 28, Cyber Cozen March 2018, Alexiad 97 and Skyliner 2
NEWS FROM FANDOM: 3-4-2018
February’s Top Ten, more cats sleeping on books than you can shake a book at. Emerald CIty Cosplay, and lots of genre award news
FILM PROGRAM: FANAC History Project
David Hartwell, David Drake, Robert Silverberg and Isaac Asimov
JO PHAN’S READS: This Week in Fanzines
The Reluctant Famulus #21, SideTrekked #58, BCSFanzine #258, Opuntia 406 and Tightbeam #284
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 2-25-2018
Plots to sue Worldcon, splatterpunk awards, traveling scarves, Nebula nominees, and lots of cats sleeping on lots of SF & F & H.
JO PHAN’S READS: This Week in Fanzines
This week: Amanita and New Church from ’79/’80; iOTA #15, Opuntia 405 and Forgotten Toys.
FILM PROGRAM: FANAC’s Video Library
Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton and James Gunn – Pacificon II and MidAmeriCon I
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM 2-11-2018
Neal Stephenson, Heinlein Award Winner, Bram Stoker finalists; multiple cats sleeping on SF and more from the world of Fandom
FILM PROGRAM: FANAC’s Video Library
This week a double header from Noreascon’s past, featuring Kate Wilhem, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov and a Hugo Awards Banquet
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 2-4-2018
Scrolled Moons, Mooned Scrolls, awards and lots of cats (and dogs) sleeping on SF
JO PHAN’S READS: This Week in Fanzines
The February Ansible #367 (Check out what it has to say about Amazing Stories from 50 years ago!
FILM PROGRAM: FANAC’S Video Library
Amateur fan films this week – Gonad the Barbarian and FAANS!
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: 1-28-18
Tributes to Ursula, awards season really kicking in, and, apparently, science fiction books are a cat’s preferred sleeping surface.
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