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The Age of Empire (Hugo Cinema 1981)Star Wars was inescapable in fandom. At the 1981 Worldcon, Paul Cullen dressed up as Luke Skywalker. (Image via Fanac.org) This...
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Hugo Packet Translated (2024)The editors of this fanzine are grateful for the Hugo nomination. Thanks to the Scots Language Centre , we were able to have our best blog posts...
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Aw Warlds In Aw Leids Is Metaphors (Translated Blog Post)Canadian media theorist an weel-kent cultural icon Marshall McLuhan aince descrived art as “a distant early warning system that can always be...
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The Ill o Walin Amang Lessers (Translated Blog Post)This blog post is a pairt o the Hugo Book Club Blog’s picture-hoose club, that’s been wirkin year bi year throu aw the Hugo-finalist big screen...
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The Un-American wey that a Lee-Science Fan fae the Left wis haunelt (Translated Blog Post)Chan Davis ( 1929-2022 ) wis weel kent tae fans o lee-science in the 1940s an 1950s. He wis a fanzine editor , an early filker , kent for his...
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Put This Fish In Your EarThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy makes light of universal translation, providing the protagonist with a fish that lives in his...
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The Kaiju Extension Eligibility SocietyGodzilla Minus One puts human-scale characters in the foreground, while the kaiju casts a shadow over their lives. (Image via...
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Call for submissions - Journey Planet "Workers' Rights In SFF"If science fiction has siblings, one of them would be the labour union movement. Both are children of the We're pleased to be guest...
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A Tribute To Vernor VingeEven if you haven't read anything that Vernor Vinge wrote, you've likely read something that was inspired by his work. He was a titan in his field...
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Open Discussion — What's worth considering for the ballot in 2025?The following list will be updated over the next few months as we read, watch, and listen to Hugo-eligible works for 2025. These are not...
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The Ascendancy of Science Fiction Cinema (Hugo Cinema 1980)This blog post is the twenty third in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog...
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Big Brother's Big ShoesThere’s a graveyard in the publishing world that’s full of authorized sequels and companion novels to famous works. Neither Scarlett nor...
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The Maginot Line of FandomFrench Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau famously quipped that “generals are always preparing to fight using the tools of the last war.”...
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A New Moon Illuminates The ApocalypseRice offers an apocalypse from a fresh perspective and with interesting insights. (Image via Goodreads) Post-apocalyptic...
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The Last Trumpet Shall SoundIn 2023, the Campo Grande Treefrog went extinct. There ’ s a very real chance that in the not-too-distant future, the elephant will...
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Death From Above (Hugo cinema 1979)This blog post is the 22th in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog post is...
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Old Man's Boss Baby(Image via Goodreads) There’s a saying in the labour movement: make someone a boss and they’re going to act like a boss. It’s an...
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Indie Cinema And The Hugo Of DoomAt the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting, a constitutional amendment was passed that would (if ratified at the 2024 Business Meeting) add two new...
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The Un-American Treatment of a Leftist Science Fiction FanProfessor Chandler Davis: author, mathematician, activist, and science fiction fan. Chan Davis ( 1929 - 2022 ) was well known to...
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A Conversation With Wole TalabiSuccess as a science fiction author didn’t come out of nowhere for Wole Talabi. The Nigerian-born author’s byline has been appearing regularly in...
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The Numbers GameOver the past decade, there has been a regularly recurring argument about the maximum number of individual contributors that can be listed for each...
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Hugo Packet TranslatedThe editors of this fanzine are grateful for the Hugo nomination, and have had our best articles of 2022 translated into Mandarin so they are...
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解药：浓度百分之二十五 (The 25 per cent solution - Mandarin Translation)过去几年间，雨果奖某些奖项险些因未满章程规定的最低投票数而遭取消。 世界科幻大会已非上世纪六七十年代可比。 (图片来自 fanac.org）...
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太空纳粹死光光 (Space Nazis Must Die - Mandarin Translation)希特勒的打手在科幻的世界里留下了巨大的阴影。 纳粹士兵的身影，浮现在《星战》的帝国军队、Doctor Who 中的“达立克” (Dalek), 《萤火虫》系列影视剧中的联盟，以及 Blake’s 7 剧集中的地球联邦突击队这些虚构产物中。 “我们会在（冲浪）...
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列王若尘 (The Tsars Like Dust - Mandarin Translation)虽说科幻拥有其它题材难以企及的辽阔空间可以让艺术家挥毫描画新的世界体系，但我们读到的作品往往落入最陈旧、最粗糙、最愚蠢、乃至最落后的政府形式之窠臼：君主制。 正值伊丽莎白二世女王陛下践祚七十载溥天同庆之祺， 本博客编创团队谨祈愿天下人主 （包括虚君如温莎王室者）...
