Jane Jewell, Executive Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, has received word of the death of Sterling Lanier on Thursday, June 28th at the age of 79. Sterling Edmund Lanier worked as both a writer and editor in the science fiction field beginning in the early 1960s; he was published extensively…
And people complained about how late the Oscars go– this ceremony finished up at 12:30 AM. I can only assume toastmaster Ronald D. Moore was still on Los Angeles time. Anyway, the winners of the 2007 Nebulas, presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, drumroll please… Novels: Seeker, by Jack McDevitt (Ace…
It all started when Dr. Howard V. Hendrix, current VP of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, delivered a rant about people giving away their works for free on the Internets, I’m… opposed to the increasing presence in our organization of webscabs, who post their creations on the net for free. A scab is…
Did you know there was a Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle? Maybe it has something to do with the Space Needle, or the underground city, or the fact that you’ve got to do something while on all that coffee. One of the things you might be able to do on June…
John Scalzi has posted Michael Capobianco’s platform on his website, and there’s a lot of activity in comment threads. A quickie election blog has sprung up, and it’s turning into one of the most viewed blog contests on the web. Which proves Scalzi’s point about operating in Internet time.
John has announced he’s a Write-In Candidate for President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and I’m supporting him, mainly for this: "I don’t believe that Michael Capobianco, the fellow running for SFWA President, is at all the right person for the job. Let me note again that this is not a…
