Straczynski Gives Harlan Ellison Book Updates J. Michael Straczynski, executor of Harlan and Susan Ellison’s estate, including Harlan’s literary estate, announced Ellison’s Greatest Hits collection is available for preorder. JMS posted on X: Hey check […]
Worldcon Wayback Machine: Friday at ConFrancisco (1993) Day 2 Worldcon Wayback Machine Introduction: Thirty years ago this weekend ConFrancisco, the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, was held in San Francisco, California. I thought it would fun […]
Pixel Scroll 8/26/23 It Was An Early Evening Pixel And The Scroll Had Just Opened Up (0) SCROLL LITE. I’m not feeling well today, so let’s make this a do-it-yourself Scroll. Add links in the […]
Garth Spencer: What I Did On My Summer Vacation [Reprinted by permission of the author.] By Garth Spencer: THE CANADIAN UNITY FAN FUND. The Canadian Unity Fan Fund was conceived to represent distant fan communities […]
Review: Folkmanis Beaked Dragon Folkmanis Beaked Dragon Hand Puppet By Lis Carey: Meet Gwenna, the newest arrival in the Carey household. She’s been here for a few weeks, but I couldn’t introduce her to you until I coaxed […]
The Complete Yeti By SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie: The idea of hairy, ape-like creatures roaming around the Himalayas has been around for centuries. But could the yeti actually be real? The BBC Radio 4 Yeti series has […]
Celebrating David Amram and “The Manchurian Candidate” By Steve Vertlieb: It had been a dream of mine for fifty-five years to finally meet iconic film composer David Amram. This ninety-one-year-old powerhouse classical, jazz, and motion […]
Gareth L. Powell: An Introduction to Iain M. Banks [Editor’s Note: Gareth Powell is a British SF writer who has written three series, to wit the Ack-Ack Macaque series with airships and cigar-smoking-monkey fighter pilots, and the Embers of […]
2022 Shirley Jackson Awards The 2022 Shirley Jackson Awards were presented on July 15 at Readercon 32 in Quincy, Massachusetts. The juried award is given for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic. […]
Steve Vertlieb’s Bernard Herrmann Favorites By Steve Vertlieb: Elmer Bernstein once commented that, in his considered opinion, Bernard Herrmann and Miklos Rozsa were the two greatest practitioners of symphonic motion picture composition in the long […]
Toy Review: Batman Utility Belt Where does he get those wonderful toys! – The Joker, Batman Review by Ian Delaney: Batman is famous for two possessions: the high-speed, highly armored Batmobile, and the utility belt. The utility […]
Once again at the end of the month of May, I find myself at the Excel Centre in East London for MCM Comic Con London May 2023. I arrived early in the morning on Saturday, […]
Lis Carey Reviews: FanTaminals Cocker Spaniel Scroll Wood Puzzle FanTaminals Cocker Spaniel Scroll Wood PuzzleMade by Judy PetersonRochester, NY Review by Lis Carey At Boskone for several years, I’ve been seeing Judy Peterson and her […]
Lis Carey Reviews: Ancillary Sword Breq, formerly the AI controlling the warship Justice of Toren, is now confined to one body, an officer of the Radch, commanding the ship Mercy of Kalr, and has been […]
Toy Review: Staff of Ra Headpiece A bronze piece, about this size, with a hole in it, off-center,with a crystal. – Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark Review by Iain Delaney: The Headpiece of the Staff of […]
Lis Carey Review: Ancillary Justice Breq is, when we meet her, the sole surviving segment of the the Radch troop ship Justice of Toren. What it takes a while for us to find out is […]
Jim Shull Rediscovered By Gary Farber: Holy mother of Ghu-Ghu, Foo-Foo, and Roscoe! I sent Jim Shull a Friend Request a few years ago after noticing him on Facebook and realizing that he must be […]
Cider Reviews Sockeye Salmon Dog Treats Introduction: Did you know that dogs can’t eat tuna? Well they can’t but they certainly can eat salmon. (No, I don’t know why one fish is good and one […]
Music By James Bernard: Themes for a Tapestry of Terror By Steve Vertlieb: While science fiction in cinema has always enjoyed enormous popularity around the world, dating back to George Melies 1902 experimental short A […]
Malice Domestic #35 Report By Teresa Peschel: Bill and I are Peschel Press. This was our third Malice Domestic. If you’re a fan of cozy mysteries and looking for your tribe, Malice is the place […]
JMS Confirms The Last Dangerous Visions Still on Schedule J. Michael Straczynski has generously answered a question about the status of The Last Dangerous Visions. A question about whether the book is still on track […]
Pixel Scroll 4/22/23 This Pixel Scroll Is Not The Product Of A Boltzmann Brain. OR IS IT? (1) MEMORIES. “Neil Gaiman at Bard College” in The Millbrook Independent. …Gaiman described how forgetting the name of […]
Pixel Scroll 4/14/23 Pixels Travelling Through Time And Space In The Blue Scroll (1) BUILDING BETTER WORLDS. [Item by Olav Rokne.] In an essay for Bombay Lit Mag, Gautam Bhatia discusses the (sometimes-maligned) art of […]
2023 Filk Hall of Fame Inductees The Filk Hall of Fame honors those who have contributed to filk over the years as performers, organizers, and facilitators. New inductees are announced annually during FilKONtario. Dave Hayman, founder and […]
Tolkien Society Awards 2023 The Tolkien Society Awards 2023 winners were announced April 1. BEST ARTWORK Other finalists BEST ARTICLE Other finalists BEST BOOK Other finalists BEST ONLINE CONTENT Other finalists OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD Pixel Scroll […]
“From The Land Beyond Beyond” — An Intimate Personal Remembrance of Ray Harryhausen By Steve Vertlieb: Ray Harryhausen remains one of the most revered figures in fantasy/sci-fi motion picture history. Born June 29, 1920, Ray […]
“65” Mini-Review By Jonathan Cowie: Several of our local SF group went to see the film 65 (trailer here from the writers/directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. First up, if you checked beforehand the teaser synopsis on IMDB, then beware […]
Pixel Scroll 3/10/23 Those Who Scroll Away From Pixelas (1) AMAZON BAILS. Amazon notified subscribers they are leaving the digital and print magazine subscriptions business, apparently. Several Filers sent me a copy of their notice […]
Groot Teams Up With Heroes from All Corners of the Marvel Universe in New Stormbreakers Variant Covers WE ARE GROOT! In April, Groot will not only play a surprising role in a new run of […]
Cats Sleep on SFF: Boskone Lis Carey shared this adorable photo: Cider working hard at Boskone. Now, she’s helping me verify people’s vaccination status. Earlier, she volunteered in Dragonslair Children’s Program, although autocorrect thought that […]
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