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GAME OF THRONES (top) and DR. WHO (bottom) could be possible contenders in the Best Dramatic Presentation categories. George R. R. Martin fans and Dr. Who fans may have a major impact on who wins this year's Hugo Awards. Cast your vote for the 2012 Hugo Awards and help decide this year’s winners, recognizing [Read it all...] FORGOTTEN BOOK: DICKSON! by Gordon R. Dickson, 1984 This is the 82nd in my series of Forgotten Books. Gordon R. Dickson was one of the first SF writers that I read. I recall quite fondly the early Dorsai books SOLDIER ASK NOT! and THE TACTICS OF MISTAKE. Somehow over the years I got away from [Read it all...] LoneStarCon 3 will be held August 29 — September 2 2013 in San Antonio. Several of the LoneStarCon 3 committee/staff will be in San Antonio on October 8th to look at the convention center and the hotels. The committee/staff would like an opportunity to meet people who are interested in working on the convention. They [Read it all...] FORGOTTEN BOOK: SACRED LOCOMOTIVE FLIES by Richard Lupoff, Beagle Books, 1971 This is the 64th in my series of Forgotten Books. WorldCon is past and I am still exhausted after 3 ½ days of book selling and 1,750 highway miles back from Reno to San Antonio it was good to be home again last night. [Read it all...] The World Science Fiction Convention will return to Texas — San Antonio to be precise — for the first time since 1997. On Aug. 20, voters at Renovation, the 2011 Worldcon, awarded the right to host the international conference to the Texas in 2013 bid. LoneStarCon 3 -– the 71st World Science Fiction Convention -– [Read it all...] ANARCHAOS by Curt Clark, Ace Books, 1967 This is the 63rd in my series of Forgotten Books. The WorldCon fever is upon me and this is the last writing thing I need to do before I go. About the time this gets posted I should be on the first of several Southwest flights headed off [Read it all...] 
TALKING MAN by Terry Bisson, Arbor House, 1986 This is the 61st in my series of Forgotten Books. Back in the day I used to do some of the big conventions – the WorldCon and World Fantasy. At one of the World Fantasy shows, I asked David Hartwell to recommend a book to me that [Read it all...] Here’s how Texas science fiction/fantasy fans can help decide this year’s Hugo Award winners AND bring the 2013 World Science Fiction Convention to San Antonio. The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. They are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”) which is also responsible [Read it all...]
The 2011 Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Professional Artist category (l to r): Daniel Dos Santos, Bob Eggleton, Stephan Martiniere, John Picacio, and Shaun Tan. The 2011 Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominations were announced Sunday via live broadcast from Eastercon in Birmingham, UK. [Read it all...] The Hugo Award The 2011 Hugo Awards nomination period is currently open until Saturday, March 26, 2011 23:59 PDT. Nominations for the Hugo Awards and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer may be submitted online or by postal mail. The online ballot form with simple instructions can be found here. Printable ballots [Read it all...] |
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