John Scalzi, President-elect of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, has announced that he and writer/actor Wil Wheaton are hosting a fan fiction contest. The rules are simple– just write a story explaining this painting by Jeff Zugale, which may be one of the most epic works ever posted on the internet. Yes,…
For those in the New York City area who can’t attend tomorrow’s Nebula Awards Dinner in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has arranged NYC Nebula Night which will include a large-screen simulcast of the ceremony, along with a full-scale reception and dinner including an open wine bar, rib-eye steak…
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2009 Nebula Awards. The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. The awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet the evening of May 15 at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront, just 20 minutes from…
Mazel tov! Reprinting the SFScope announcement: Award-winning science fiction writer (and SF Scope contributor) Michael A. Burstein and wife Nomi Burstein welcomed two twin children, their first, to their family today. The twins are fraternal, and both are girls. The first baby was born at 9:20AM, weighed 5 pounds 8 ounces, and is 17″ long….
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced the winners of their annual Nebula Awards tonight in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies was toastmastered by Janis Ian— yes, that Janis Ian. Ian Randal Strock of SFScope stayed up extra late to cover the ceremony and post the results in real time, and we’re…
The Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced their annual Nebula Award winners this weekend in Austin, TX. The non-profit association honors writers of speculative fiction each year with the awards, and this year’s list of winners included some familiar names and series to fans of comics and science-fiction/fantasy: Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by…
The Science Fiction Writers of America have announced the final ballot for the 2007 Nebula Awards. As a paid-up SFWA member, I’d like to point out two items: ► The movie adaptation of V For Vendetta has been nominated as one of best science-fiction scripts of the year. ► The original comic book on which…
DNA pioneer James Watson says blacks are genetically less smart. He told a UK newspaper whites are more intelligent. Watson, the man who along with Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, is facing a HUGE backlash after claiming that black people are genetically less intelligent than whites. …
Remember a while back when I said I supported John Scalzi over Michael Capobianco for president of SFWA, and that I might have to throw my hat into the ring as SFWA VP? Reactionary stuff like this from the new SFWA VP, Andrew Burt, is the reason why. Take it away, Cory Doctorow: "The Science…
If you’re registered as a member of this year’s world science fiction convention, a.k.a. WorldCon (Nippon 2007), you’re entitled to vote for the Hugo awards. All votes must be received by Midnight (2359hrs), Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, July 31, 2007. You can vote online here. Please note that it’s an alternative preference ballot, i.e….
Colleen Mondor has a long essay about mysterious houses in various genres. (That picture, by the way, is the very first result for "mysterious houses," though they don’t look terribly mysterious to me.) SF Signal thinks about who the next Grand Masters of the Science Fiction Writers of America should be. Cracked lists the seven…
One of the science fictional world’s classiest conventions, Readercon, was held this past weekend in the suburbs of Boston, and your intrepid reporter was there. There wasn’t anything much comics-related happening — Readercon famously concentrates on the written word to the excusion of everything else — but two awards were presented over the weekend, which…
