Ben Bova “was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction,” according to Wikipedia, and was also a six-time winner of the Hugo Award. “He was also president of both the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.” Tor.com reports Bova has passed “due to complications from COVID-19 and a stroke…” Born in 1932,…
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Co-Creator of the First Star Trek Convention Has Died
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger shared this report from the Hugo award-winning science fiction fanzine File 770:
North Bellmore, New York fan Elyse Rosenstein, 69, died suddenly on February 20th. She had been undergoing rehabilitation after suffering a broken leg. At the time of her death, she was a retired secondary school science teacher. With Joyce Yasner, Joan Winston, Linda Deneroff and Devra…
Remembering Star Trek Writer DC Fontana, 1939-2019
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger brings the news that D. C. Fontana, an influential story editor and writer on the original 1960s TV series Star Trek, has died this week. People reports: The writer is credited with developing the Spock character’s backstory and “expanding Vulcan culture,” SyFy reported of her massive contribution to the beloved sci-fi series. Fontana was the one who…
How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America
From a report: When the English translation of “The Three-Body Problem” was published in 2014, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work of speculative fiction. President Barack Obama praised the novel, calling it “just wildly imaginative.” Mark Zuckerberg recommended it to his tens of millions of Facebook followers; George R.R. Martin blogged about it. Publishers around the world chased after translation…
2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
DevNull127 writes: The 77th World Science Fiction Convention announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony Sunday night. Here’s some of the highlights. At least two of these stories can be read (for free) online: BEST NOVELETTE: “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen Cho. The entire text is availabe online in the B&N…
Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet bites into bigots — and not just by analogy
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/16/18410695/netflix-santa-clarita-diet-season-3-analogy-bigotry-drew-barrymore-timothy-olyphant…
The Archive of Our Own is now a Hugo nominee. That’s huge for fanfiction.
4.7 million fanfics are now Hugo nominees, thanks to AO3 and the transformative culture that built it. The Archive of Our Own, one of the internet’s most well-known fanfiction archives, has been nominated for a Hugo Award this year, a significant honor in the sci-fi/fantasy literature world. The Hugos are the annual science fiction and… Continue reading The Archive of Our Own is now a Hugo nominee. That’s huge for fanfiction.
An Internet Fan Fiction Archive Is Nominated for a Hugo
Frank Herbert’s Dune, Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, and Neuromancer by William Gibson—these classic Hugo award nominees, everyone has heard of. But what about the thousands of fanfiction works all addressing the question, “what if Steve Rogers and Tony Stark from the Avengers fucked?” This week, the Hugo awards—a set of literary… Continue reading An Internet Fan Fiction Archive Is Nominated for a Hugo