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Zimozi Natsuco Guest Post: The Hugo Awards’ Evil Fall is a Watered-Down Affair, and Certain Issues To Watch Out ForINTRODUCTION: Zimozi Natsuco is an ordinary sf fan from China. He is studying at a Chinese University majoring in literature. Zimozi Natsuco...
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Participate in the 2023 Clarkesworld Readers Poll NominationsThe flash nomination phase for the 2023 Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll began today and continues until January 29 at Noon Eastern...
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Glasgow 2024 Opens Nominations for the 2024 Hugo AwardsGlasgow 2024 today opened nominations for the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best...
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Lis Carey Review: The City We Became (Great Cities Trilogy #1)We know New York City is a great city. That New York City has a soul. But New York City is about to become a living city, and its avatar needs to...
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Angela Hedrick Is the Speculative Literature Foundation’s 2024 Illustration of the Year WinnerThe Speculative Literature Foundation has selected “Pursuit” by Angela Hedrick as their 2024 Illustration of the Year. See the artwork at the...
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Pixel Scroll 1/26/24 La Scroll È Mobile(1) SATURN AWARDS NEWS. Keanu Reeves will be the inaugural recipient of the Lance Reddick Legacy Award when the 51st Saturn Awards take place on...
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In Case You Were Curious: Checking the Redacted 2023 Hugo BallotTL;DR SUMMARY: The differences between the redacted and the final 2023 Hugo ballots involved three items and were due to rules applications as...
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Warner Holme Review: Ursula K Le Guin’s Collected PoemsUrsula K Le Guin’s Collected Poems, Edited by Harold Bloom (Library of America, 2023) Review by Warner Holme: Ursula K Le...
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Deirra Clyburn Wins SLF 2023 Working Class Writers GrantThe Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce Deirra Clyburn as the winner of the 2023 Working Class Writers Grant. Clyburn’s...
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Pixel Scroll 1/25/24 The Pixels Will Continue Until Morale Improves(1) SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE. Malcolm F. Cross takes a deeply skeptical look at “AI, the Algorithm, and the Attention Economy” at Sin Is...
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Cats Sleep on SFF: Prelude to SpaceDale Nelson shares a photo of Aino with some 1950s paperbacks. Photos of your felines (or whatever you’ve got!) resting on genre works are...
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Pixel Scroll 1/24/24 A Fist Full Of Typos(1) HELP NEEDED. Writer Richard Kadrey, whose work includes the Sandman Slim novels, is asking for financial help in a GoFundMe for “Medical...
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Hugo Controversy Hits Mainstream News; A Chengdu Vice-Chair Comments in Social MediaBy Ersatz Culture. IN THE GUARDIAN.The Guardian’s report “Science fiction awards held in China under fire for excluding authors” includes quotes...
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Pixel Scroll 1/23/24 Tribbles, Like Pixels, Only Cuter(1) TAKING THE CURSE OFF ADVERBS. Philip Athans is here to liberate us: “Adverbs Are Fine!” declares Athans at the Fantasy Author’s Handbook....
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2024 Oscar NominationsWhen the 2024 Oscar Nominations were announced today, as expected two films of genre interest led the field – just not the two everyone predicted....
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ALA Announces 2024 Youth Media Award WinnersThe American Library Association (ALA) on January 22 announced the 2024 Youth Media Award winners — the top books, digital media, video and audio...
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44th Razzie® Award NominationsThe 44rd Razzie nominations are out. After strikes, lingerings of a worldwide plague and a general sense of universal agoraphobia, the...
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Pixel Scroll 1/22/24 Encounter at Fargo(1) KUANG ON BABEL’S HUGO INELIGIBILITY. Rebecca F. Kuang decided that saying nothing isn’t an option. “Rebecca F. Kuang: ‘statement’” at...
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Chengdu Hugo Administrator Dave McCarty Fields Questions on FacebookDave McCarty’s Facebook page is where some are trying – without success – to get full explanations for the ineligibility rulings in the 2023 Hugo...
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2023 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot AnnouncedThe Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot. This is not the list of finalists, nor...
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Glasgow 2024 Opens Hotel Bookings to MembersThe Glasgow 2024 Worldcon committee posted information needed to book hotel rooms to all Glasgow 2024 members on Monday January 22 at 3:00 p.m....
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Toy Review: Candygram! Deluxe Big Guy and Rusty, the Boy RobotReview by Iain Delaney: Big Guy and Rusty, the Boy Robot, began life as a comic book by Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow. In 1999, the Fox Kids...
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2024 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award ContestEntries for the eleventh annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award contest are being taken now through April 30th, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern....
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Andrew Carnegie Medals and RUSA 2024 Best ListsThe RUSA Book & Media Awards Ceremony on January 20 announced the year’s best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, audiobook narration, and...
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Pixel Scroll 1/21/24 They Told Me The Pixel Was Safe To Scroll!(1) WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOU’RE AN “INELIGIBLE”. Xiran Jay Zhao just got the news. (2) ONLINE DISCUSSION OF CHENGDU WORLDCON HUGO NOMINATIONS REPORT....
