Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone| Seattle Worldcon 2025
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone| Seattle Worldcon 2025
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone| Seattle Worldcon 2025
If you're of a certain age, the phrase “sword and sorcery” conjures up visions of muscular barbarians and busty damsels fighting monsters or evil wizards on paperback covers illustrated by Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, or Jeffrey Catherine Jones. But did you know that the subgenre had no name for the first 30 years of its existence? And do you know how the term for the genre of “sword and sorcery” came to be?| Seattle Worldcon 2025
We've discovered some commonalities among the answers to last week's questions, enough that there are some things we can definitely say about speculative poetry, but how much deeper can we dig?| Seattle Worldcon 2025
What better place to start this blog, then, by trying to ask and answer the one question that comes up often from people outside the space: what is a “speculative” poem?| Seattle Worldcon 2025
Building Yesterday’s Future–For Everyone| Seattle Worldcon 2025
The Pacific Northwest is home to a lot of great food products, some of which you may have seen elsewhere. In addition to the vibrant wine, cider, beer, and spirit makers in the region, we’re home base for some fun foods—Jones Soda, Brown & Haley candy, Oh Boy! Oberto, Almond Roca, a bunch of chocolatiers, and Tim’s Cascade Chips, to name just a tiny fraction. Find many of these in local shops, including the Bartell Drugs store at 5th and Olive, while you’re at the convention.| Seattle Worldcon 2025
Frederik Pohl’s 1953 Star Science Fiction anthology was not just the first of a string of noteworthy anthologies. His series inspired other editors to assemble similar series. The latest such work was released close to half a century after Pohl’s first anthology was published.| Seattle Worldcon 2025
Olympic National Park offers an otherworldly natural oasis not too far from Seattle.| Seattle Worldcon 2025
Where is young adult science fiction? Is science fiction doomed to gradual extinction as its writers and readers age and die without replacement? Or is there a simple, easily implemented solution?| Seattle Worldcon 2025