Caves of Qud just won the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work. This is extremely awesome. I was pushing for a "Best Game" category ten years ago. Here's my list of suggested nominees which a 2015 award might have gone to, if there was ...| Zarf Updates
I went to the Seattle Worldcon and I had a good time. (Some Worldcons take on a unique name. The last one I went to, in Montreal, was Anticipation. The 2001 Worldcon in Philadelphia was called the Millennium Philcon and I went purely because ...| Zarf Updates
I'm going to the World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle! And speaking! It's the first Worldcon I've attended since 2009 (Montreal). After the Hadean Lands kickstarter, I figured I should spend my travel budget on game dev conferences rather ...| Zarf Updates
Worldcon is the apex annual convention for a certain stratum of science fiction fandom. My stratum, to be precise. It's also the conference whose members vote the annual Hugo Awards. Sadly, Worldcon the conference is becoming less notable than ...| Zarf Updates
For weeks Ive been in survival mode, ignoring all communications from friends, family, and colleagues. Please don't take it personally: it's not you, it's me.| Nicola Griffith
Writing Excuses is headed to Worldcon from August 13th-17th and there are several opportunities to meetup with other fans, see the hosts in person for panels or casual meet & greets to a full suite party at the Sheraton Grand Seattle! Find any of the hosts attending (Mary Robinette Kowal,…| Writing Excuses
My favorite book club meeting of every year is the one were we read the Hugo nominated short stories and novelettes. Here’s my reviews of this year’s crop. Note that the reviews are all FULL SPOILERS. If you don’t want to read them all, but want to read the (IMO) best ones without being spoiled, [...] The post SF/F Review – 2022 Hugo Nominated Shorts first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki Synopsis: Alien refugees sell donuts in the Bay area, one falls in love with a woman who sells souls to hell, as that woman begins grooming a runaway trans girl with world-class violin skills to be her next soul sacrifice. Book Review: FYI, despite how I had to phrase the [...] The post SF/F Review – Light From Uncommon Stars first appeared on Death Is Bad.| Death Is Bad
Voting opened on April 23, 2025 for the final ballot of the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. All ballots must be received by…| The Hugo Award
The Seattle Worldcon 2025’s WSFS Division Head Cassidy, Hugo Administrator Nicholas Whyte, and Deputy Hugo Administrator Esther MacCallum-Stewart today announced their resignations from the committ…| File 770
Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83nd World Science Fiction Convention, announced on April 6, 2025 the finalists for the 2025 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award f…| The Hugo Award
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Hugo Awards. See the 2025 Seattle Worldcon website for nomination information. WSFS members of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon and 2024 Glasgow Worldcon are eligible…| The Hugo Award
At the Hugo Awards ceremony for Glasgow Worldcon 2024 on the evening of Sunday 11 August, the event overcame any of the earlier issues around attempts to interfere with the judging process, and produced an exemplary and transparent ballot, with a stellar list of winners. Held in the huge SEC Armadillo auditorium of the Scottish […]|
One of the most hotly awaited, and contested, outcomes of any Worldcon is the location of the next unassigned Worldcon. Competing bids for the next location two years hence are keenly supported by stands and collaterals—for Worldcons to come. And now we know the lucky recipient for 2026: Los Angeles. As officially announced during Worldcon […]|
It’s a pleasure to be reporting from the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, “a Worldcon for our futures,” held in the Scottish Events Campus on the banks of the Clyde…| teleread.org
Dear Friends, I'm in London, briefly, to do an event with Lindsay Ellis and to see Hadestown for the [mumble]th time, before heading up to Glasgow and Worldcon! So here's some information about that. Conversations Lindsay's a goddamn rockstar and the event was sold out before I could even| Amal El-Mohtar
Glasgow 2024, a Worldcon for Our Futures (the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention) announced the winners of the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award fo…| The Hugo Award
Voting opened on April 20, 2024 for the final ballot of the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. All ballots must be received by…| The Hugo Award
Glasgow 2024, the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland, has announced a 2024 Hugo Awards Town Hall event on Saturday, April 20 from 11am – 12:30pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7) featuring key m…| The Hugo Award
Glasgow 2024, the 82nd World Science Fiction Convention, announced on March 29, 2024 the finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best …| The Hugo Award
As is my ineffable habit whenever the World Science Fiction Convention immanentizes in the World's Greatest City, I am once more attending Chicago Worldcon this year. And as so often transpires, I'm on a slight dusting of panels and events therein, and as always transpires I know nothing about any…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com