Whatever Happened To Egoboo?
There is no mention of egoboo in the first Fancyclopedia, written by Jack Speer, published in 1944.
Fandom May Be A Way of Life, But is it THE Way of Life?
Receiving zines in the mail used to be almost an everyday thing for me back in “The Day,” but sadly, it’s an unusual occurrence these days.
Omnivores In Space
when I read, I notice what people are eating. This is one of those little clues that can tell you a lot about how a fictional world is constructed and how its author sees it.
IlluXcon Roundup: Interview with Iris Compiet
The story is about a little princess whose parents want her to marry a prince, but all the princes are just not very interesting to her, they are nice but there’s no spark… and that’s when she falls in love with another princess.
Hot Enough For You? Science fiction, the Weather And Anarchy In the UK.
In the UK, hot weather is so remarkable that we have even been known to make science fiction films about it.
Consider the Magical Girl
With the Sailor Moon relaunch just a few months away, I seem to be seeing an onslaught of magical girls in the media.
Review: Ink Mage by Victor Gischler
Ink Mage is not your typical fantasy adventure story. In fact, author Victor Gischler is not your typical fantasy adventure writer. But rest assured, the two have come together into an impressive display of epic storytelling.
The Club House 11/08/13
Put on your Propeller Beanies (and give them a good spin) and put down your Zap-Zap Ray Guns! The Word for today is BYZANTINE.
Battle Fever J! This Is Why I Love Japan (and You Should, Too)
Battle Fever J was a forerunner of the Power Rangers: four guys and a girl in superhero suits, saving the world from “the mysterious deity Satan Egos.”
Theatre Review: Override by Stacey Gregg
Review of Override by Stacey Gregg performed at the Watford Palace Theatre.
Con Report: CAPCLAVE 2013!!!
While I’ve been reading SF for ages, I haven’t participated much in the fandom aspects of the genre. I’ve only been to one other convention and I only made it for a single afternoon. Needless to say, three days seemed like a marathon.
Felipe R. Ávila — Historietista por M. C. Carper
M. C. Carper interviews Felipe R. Ávila for Amazing Stories.
Dubbing Gone Wrong: Americanization, Racism, and Willful Ignorance
It is extremely difficult, as a creator of any sort, to escape your culture.
Website review: Daily Science Fiction dot com
Just like every high-quality short story, it doesn’t have to be complicated to be good. To prove that, dailysciencefiction.com has provided a convenient outlet for finding well written original work in the genre.
One Fan’s History — Badges? We Don’ Need No Steenkin’…(Part One)
Every con has a name badge, and most of them are well designed, like a little piece of art. Badge collecting is a great way to save convention memories
Halloween in Japan
In Japan, Halloween is pumpkins and ghosts, just as Christmas is Santas and reindeer.
Noticias Literatura 29-10
The 25th Anniversary of the Alberto Magno Award for Science Fiction.
On Ghost Hunters
Have you heard a strange bump in the night? Perhaps a door mysteriously opened or slammed shut? My advice, read Carl Sagan’s The Demon Haunted World.
It’s Halloween!
Need some scary, macabre, bizarre inspiration for all hallows eve? Look no further!
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part VI (and Final): The Scariest Characters Make the Best Halloween Costumes
The final installment of this year’s Ooky Spooky Animanga series focuses on the best scary animanga character costumes, and how to put them together.
Friday Fanzine – SF Commentary
SF Commentary, an international award winning fanzine from Australia.
How Not To Host A Website -or- The Further Adventures Of A Twentieth Centure Computer Illiterate In the Twenty-First Century
As late as twenty years ago a fanzine panel at a VCON would draw thirty to forty fen, all curious, many enthusiastic, all appreciative of any sprightly and hilarious tales to be told springing from fanac lore, tradition, and experience. But now…
I stopped participating in convention panels promoting fanzine fandom when the four panelists on the panel outnumbered the audience four-to-one…
A Review of Flashback by Dan Simmons
This book kicks posterior. It’s a wild turbo-boosted ride through a shockingly plausible dystopia.
Fotos de Fan: Fantastika 2013
Este post tenía que ser originalmente un recuento de todo lo ocurrido en el Swecon de este año, llamado Fantastika 2013
Ooky Spooky Animanga Part V: The Japanese Fascination with Spirits
Every culture has its ghost stories. Here in the West, ours tend toward narratives depicting souls who died violent deaths and have returned to take revenge. Or perhaps we tell tales of those who have died too soon and only wish for eternal playmates. As I briefly mentioned in my post last week, the Japanese have a very rich and far-reaching pantheon of spooks. The majority of these ghosts and their stories grew out of the Edo period (1603-1867; thus why a show like Mononoke asserts itself as particularly Japanese horror), and ghost stories with a certain antiquated style to them, or an air of the past, are usually referred to as kaiden (mysterious or strange recited narrative), whereas more modern horror stories would simply be called hora (a Japanization of “horror”).
The Artful Collector: Art Hierarchies #3: Art Done for Love is Better than Art Done for Money
The more we detect fake sentiment or emotion, or (in our case) pandering to a love of dragons and wizards – as opposed to honest “self-expression” – the less we are going to care whether “just for the love of it” was the reason for creation
The Club House October 18
Of note is the upcoming Corflu, the annual convention for fanzine fans, which next year will be held in Richmond, Virginia, May 2nd to 4th 2014.
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