Barkley — So Glad You (Didn’t) Ask #85 A REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: A FEW THOUGHTS ON SOME OF THE 2024 HUGO AWARD FINALISTS By Chris M. Barkley: I, like many of you reading this, were absolutely […]

Speculative Sounds: Sonic Discoveries from “John The Balladeer” By RL Thornton: One of the great rediscoveries of this year has been the stories of World Fantasy Award-winner Manly Wade Wellman. In particular, his magical stories […]

Pixel Scroll 3/23/24 Please Be Aware That The Closest Pixel Might Be Behind You (0) The Saturday Scroll will be a short one. I am on my way to celebrate my sister-in-law’s birthday — which […]

So Glad You (Didn’t) Ask #84: A Column of Unsolicited Opinions Unburdening Myself of Unfinished Business By Chris M. Barkley:  ITEM ONE: As we emerge from the cold and cloudless days of January and February, […]

World Builders: Women Shaping SF and Fantasy: Guest Post by Sondi Warner Sondi Warner is an author with a flair for the paranormal. Her debut novel, Lead Me Astray, was selected as an Amazon Editor’s […]

Self-Published Science Fiction Competition 3 Semifinalists The third annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition’s 18 semifinalists have been announced. They have been selected by the nine remaining judging teams. (The original Team EPIC was dissolved in […]

Warner Holme Review: Heather Webber’s At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber (Forge, 2023) Review by Warner Holme: Heather Webber’s At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities is the latest […]

Cheryl Morgan, Dave McCarty Resign from WSFS’ Hugo Award Marketing Committee WSFS’ Hugo Awards Marketing Committee (“HAMC”) members Cheryl Morgan and chair Dave McCarty have resigned. New chair Linda Deneroff says, “We are currently in […]

NESFA Presents Skylark, Gaughan Awards at Boskone 61 The New England Science Fiction Association honored the winners of two annual awards at Boskone 61 on February 10. SKYLARK AWARD NESFA presented the Skylark Awards for […]

Cat Eldridge Review: Marvel Femme Fatales Spider-Gwen Statue Review by Cat Eldridge: I’ve needed to write to this up for quite some time and since the second animated Spider-Verse film is recently out, it’s good time […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

2023 Hugo Finalist Voting Statistics Posted The 2023 Hugo Awards were presented October 21 during a ceremony at the Chengdu Worldcon. Today the committee released the voting statistics for the finalists, which show how the […]

Meeting Piltdown By Lee Weinstein: When I was a child, my father gave me a set of the illustrated New World Family Encyclopedia, published in 1954. One illustration that burned itself into my brain was […]

Remembering Fans Who Were Activists in Real World Politics and the Counter Culture Stirred to action by a particularly stupid and dismissive media generalization about science fiction fans, Rob Hansen has prepared this collection of […]

National Toy Hall of Fame Inductees for 2023 The National Toy Hall of Fame revealed four inductees for 2023 on November 9 — baseball cards, Cabbage Patch Kids, Fisher Price Corn-Popper, and NERF. The Fisher-Price Corn Popper is […]

Pixel Scroll 11/4/23 Pixels Of The Night, From Pixelated Pixelvania (1) APPRECIATING A FINE ANTIQUE. James Davis Nicoll has a new assignment for the Young People Read Old SF panel. This month’s Young People Read […]

2023 Pegasus Awards The 2023 Pegasus Awards for excellence in filking were announced on October 28 at the Ohio Valley Filk Fest (OVFF). BEST FILK SONG BEST CLASSIC FILK SONG BEST PERFORMER BEST WRITER/COMPOSER BEST ADAPTED SONG [Tie] […]

Help! Timmy Fell In The Gravity Well! By Daniel Dern: Eric Mowbray Knight’s best known character is probably Lassie (the canine), from his 1940 novel, Lassie Come-Home, which went on to begat the TV series […]

Toy Review: Exterminate! Exterminate! — A Dalek, Dr. Who By Iain Delaney: Dr Who started in 1963 and ran until 1985. They revived it in 2005 and has been running (more or less) continuously ever since. […]

Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 4 Arriving On October 17 Pyr Books will release The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol. 2 edited by Paula Guran. It’s the fourth from the current publisher, […]

Top 10 Stories for September 2023 The Dragon Award winners post was the only news story to hold its head above the flood of Pixel Scrolls in September. However, Harlan Ellison news and the Big […]

Lis Carey Review: Chasm City Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds (Trantor Audio, 2009) Review by Lis Carey: Chasm City is set in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe, a century or so after the events of The Prefect and Elysium Fire. […]

The Many Pieces of One Piece By Michaele Jordan: Let me tell you about One Piece! ALL about it! There’s a story in that. Naturally, I always start my reviews with the production credits.  Fair […]