A handy guide to all SFF-related posts and works of 2023

I never felt particularly comfortable with eligibility posts, but I posted such an overview for the first time in 2016, when someone added my name to the Hugo Nominations Wiki. Eventually, it paid off, because I was a Hugo finalist for Best Fan Writer in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and won in 2022.

So if you’re interested in what I write, here is an overview of all SFF related blogposts of 2023, in chronological order, as well as a list of all the SFF and other fiction I published.

Because I did so many Fanzine/Fancast/Non-Fiction Spotlight interviews, I separated the Spotlights from the other blogposts. I also separated the Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre Toy Photo Stories from the rest of the blogposts.

That said, I have a shiny rocket on my shelf and there are many highly deserving fan writers who have never even been nominated, let alone won. Therefore, I’d like to ask folks to nominate some of those other great folks.

Finally, I know that there are people out there who don’t like me and don’t like what I have to say. That’s okay, no one has to like me and my work. But if you don’t like my work, just don’t read it. There’s no need to send harassment mobs my way.

And if you think you’re going to silence me, think again. Cause it’s not going to work.

At this blog:

• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu are back and have become “The Apostate”
• Some Comments on the 2022 Nebula Award Finalists
• Oscars Everywhere All At Once – Some Thoughts on the 2023 Academy Award Winners
• Remembering John Jakes (1932 -2023)
• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu Visit “The Mines of Mandalore”
• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu step aside for “The Convert”
• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu delve into the backstory of “The Foundling”
• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu deal with “The Pirate”
• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu solve a mystery in “Guns For Hire”
• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu return to Mandalore and meet “The Spies”
• An Open Letter to the 2023 Hugo Finalists, Whoever They May Be
• The Mandalorian and Baby Grogu Celebrate “The Return”
• Some Thoughts on the 2022 Nebula Award Winners
• Cora’s Adventures at Metropol Con in Berlin, Part 1: Pre-Con Wanderings
• Cora’s Adventures at Metropol Con in Berlin, Part 2: The Con
• Same Old Debate, New Clothes: The Cozy Horror Controversy
• The 2023 July Short Story Challenge – Day by Day
• Some Thoughts on the 2023 Hugo Finalists
• Foundation Finds Itself “In the Seldon’s Shadow” at the Start of Season 2
• Foundation Gets “A Glimpse of Darkness” and Introduces Some Major Players
• Foundation meets “King and Commoner” and swears a lot
• The 2023 Dragon Award Finalists: Mostly Good with a Oddities
• Foundations Goes “Where the Stars Are Scattered Thinly” and largely treads water
• Foundation meets “The Sighted and the Seen” and has nothing whatsoever to do with the books
• Foundation explains “Why the Gods Made Wine” and still has next to nothing to do with the books
• Foundation Experiences “A Necessary Death”
• Some Comments on the 2023 Dragon Award Winners
• Foundation Discovers “The Last Empress”
• Foundation travels “Long Ago, Not Far Away” and blows up its own premise
• My Dad, Addy Buhlert (1938 – 2023)
• Foundation explores “Creation Myths” and ends season 2
• Some Comments on the 2023 Hugo Winners
• A Bouquet of Mixed Links and Two Estranged Brothers
• The 2023 Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents
• The 2023 Jonathan and Martha Kent Fictional Parent of the Year Award
• as well as twelve regular editions and four holiday editions of Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month and Indie Crime Fiction of the Month

The Complete Fanzine/Fancast/Semiprozine/Non-Fiction Spotlights:

• Semiprozine Spotlight: Wyngraf Magazine of Cozy Fantasy
• Semiprozine Spotlight: New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine
• Fanzine Spotlight: SMOF News
• Fanzine Spotlight: Remembrance of Things Past and Future
• Fancast Spotlight: Chrononauts
• Semiprozine Spotlight: Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine
• Non-Fiction Spotlight: Brian W. Aldiss and Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood: A Critical Companion by Paul Kincaid
• Non-Fiction Spotlight: The Life and Art of Dave Cockrum by Glen Cadigan
• Non-Fiction Spotlight: Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West by Aidan Moher
• Non-Fiction Spotlight: Hither Came Conan, edited by Bob Byrne, Bill Ward, Howard Andrew Jones and Jason M. Waltz
• Non-Fiction Spotlight: D20 or Die!: Memories of Old School Role-Playing Games from Today’s Grown-Up Kids, edited by Jim Beard

The Complete Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre Toy Photo Stories:

• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “Wun-Dar and His Wonderful Dinosaur”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “Held Hostage”.
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “Cat Fight”.
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “The Prisoner of Castle Grayskull”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre Double Feature: “Precious” and “The Broken Sword”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “The Story of Keldor (In His Own Words)”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “Adam’s Day Out”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “Playing for Dinner”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “The Prisoner of Castle Grayskull Revisited”
• Two Links and a Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre Double Feature: “New Dad” and “Orko Interruptus”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre Pride Month Special: “Ambush in the Mystic Mountains”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “Artistic License”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “The Uninvited Guest”
• Masters-of-the-Universe-Piece Theatre: “The Maiden and the Monster”

At Galactic Journey:

• “The Return of the Dynamic Duo: The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber” in Alyx and Company (January 1968 Galactoscope)
• “Buddha os a Spaceman: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny” and “Looting the Pharaohs: Easy Go by John Lange” in In Distant Lands (March 1968 Galactoscope)
• In Unquiet Times: The Frankfurt Arson Attacks, the Shooting of Rudi Dutschke and Electronic Labyrinth THX-1138 4EB
• Adventures for a Dime: Science Fiction and Horror Dime Novels in West Germany
• “The Long Con: God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake” in Dangerous Visions (Not Those Dangerous Visions!) (September 1968 Galactoscope)
• The Further Adventures of the Cimmerian: Conan of the Isles by Lin Carter and L. Sprague De Camp and the Lancer Conan Series in General
• “A King on the Run: The Goblin Tower by L. Sprague De Camp” in Adventure and Eulogies (December Galactoscope)

Elsewhere:

• “Between Cynism and Faith” in Asimov’s Foundation and Philosophy: Psychohistory and Its Discontents, edited by Joshua Heter and Josef Thomas Simpson
• “Cele Goldsmith Lalli – Midwife to the Second Sword and Sorcery Boom” in New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine No. 1: Fall 2023

Podcast appearances:

• “Readalong: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett” in SFFAudio Podcast #715
• “Readalong: Binary by Michael Crichton” in SFFAudio Podcast #717
• “Readalong: The Star King by Jack Vance” in SFFAudio Podcast #719
• “Readalong: Drug of Choice by Michael Crichton” in SFFAudio Podcast #723
• “Audiobook/Readalong: ‘The Isle of Pirate’s Doom’ by Robert E. Howard” in SFFAudio Podcast #726
• “A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine, featuring Cora Buhlert” in Hugos There #75
• “Readalong: Easy Go by Michael Crichton” in SFFAudio Podcast #730
• “Readalong: The Black Priestess of Varda by Erik Fennel” in SFFAudio Podcast #732
• “Audiobook/Readalong: ‘The Black Stranger’ by Robert E. Howard” in SFFAudio Podcast #734
• Season 3, episode 7 of Stars End: A Foundation Podcast
• “Audiobook/Readalong: ‘Shadows in Zamboula’ by Robert E. Howard” in SFFAudio Podcast #726
• “Audiobook/Readalong: Space Viking by H. Beam Piper” in SFFAudio Podcast #747
• “The Golden Age of Science Fiction with Cora Buhlert” in Seldon Crisis, Season 3, Episode 43
• “Readalong: The Venom Business by Michael Crichton” in SFFAudio Podcast #749
• “Audiobook/Readalong: Unseen—Unfeared by Francis Stevens” in SFFAudio Podcast #751
• “Audiobook/Readalong: Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper” in SFFAudio Podcast #754
• “Readalong: Odds On by Michael Crichton” in SFFAudio Podcast #757
• “A Conversation about The Beatles ‘Now and Then'” in Light On Light Through
• “Foundation 2nd Season: Cora Buhlert, Joel McKinnon, and Paul Levinson discuss” in Light On Light Through
• “Sci-Fi Hall of Fame Stories Discussion Panel #1: “Martian Odessey” by Stanley G. Weinbaum” in Postcards From a Dying World #127
• “Readalong: Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson” in SFFAudio Podcast #764

Fiction (SFF):

• “Homecoming Gift” in Wyngraf Magazine (flash fiction)
• “Astrocast Flashes: Bug-eyed Monsters and the Women Who Love Them” in Waystation Amateur Magazine of Space Opera (flash fiction, reprint)
• “Rest My Weary Bones” in Swords and Sorcery Magazine Issue 138, August 2023 (short story)
• “A Cry on the Battlefield” in The Little Cozy Book: A Cozy Fantasy Flash Fiction Anthology from Wyngraf (flash fiction, reprint)
• “We need to talk…” in Simultaneous Times Volume 3, edited by Jean-Paul L. Garnier (short story, reprint)