The Artful Collector: The Major Awards for Artists and ART: The Chesley
Browsing through my photo file yielded one of me taken at the 16th annual Chesley Awards, 2001, accepting an award for one of the winners. Which did not include me 🙂 (although I have been […]
My Trip to Sofacon
Like any good con report, we begin the proceedings well in advance of the event. Several months ago I was invited to attend the convention as a panelist – technically my first ever panel appearance […]
SOFACON THIS WEEKEND
Sofacon, StarshipSofa’s first annual international online convention will take place this Sunday. Amazing Stories will be making an appearance when Amazing’s publisher, Steve Davidson, is joined by blogger and author Chris Gerwel to discuss Fandom’s […]
The Art of Au Contraire! 2013
A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure to attend Au Contraire!, the New Zealand national Science Fiction, Fantasy and Geekery convention here in Wellington. It was the second Au Contraire! I attended: three […]
LibertyCon 26 Report
Home from LibertyCon 26, in Chattanooga TN. We put a thousand miles on the little car this weekend, stayed away from home for four days in a sub-standard hotel, but it was worth it. For […]
SOFACON IS COMING!
Starship Sofa recently announced Sofacon, the first international online science fiction convention and, as you can see, Amazing Stories is going to be a part of it. I’m scheduled to present an hour’s long program: […]
The Clubhouse: Looking for fandom — ConFusion at 40, Part 4
Wherefore fandom? Fandom does not equal “the science fiction market.” To be a fan it’s not enough just to be a consumer of science fiction. To be part of fandom you have to participate in […]
The Clubhouse: ConFusion at 40, Part 3
Immortal ConFusion was rather a bittersweet experience. I hadn’t been to the convention in years, although I attended annually from A² Relax Icon in 1974, up through my college years in Ann Arbor, when I […]
The Clubhouse: ConFusion at 40, Part 2
I went to all the early ConFusions. The name change came about, I’m told, because Ro (who informs me her name was then still Nagey, the change to Lutz-Nagey not occurring till a few years […]
The Clubhouse: ConFusion at 40 (more or less)
This year was the 40th ConFusion. Or perhaps it will be next year. The numerology of this Michigan convention has always been somewhat doubtful, since its numbering started with 13, unless you count the initial […]
The Clubhouse: Five words every fan should know
“I have a Cosmic Mind — now what do I do?” Fanspeak is what we call the jargon of fandom that grew up in fanzines and is still in use in the internet age. It’s […]
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