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Tag Archives: fandom wank
Why the Retro Hugos Have Value
Once again, this is not the post I wanted to write. I had been planning to review The Old Guard, which I finally got around to watching, and maybe write a quick con report about the virtual 2020 NASFIC. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Astounding Science Fiction, awards geekery, CoNZealand, fandom wank, gender, golden age fantasy, golden age science fiction, Lovecraft, race, retro fantasy, Retro Hugos, retro science fiction, Shoot a cannon at the canon!, some people are arseholes, vintage fantasy, vintage science fiction, WorldCon
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Reactions to the 2020 Dragon Awards Finalists or the Sound of Puppies Crying
Considering that this year’s Dragon Awards ballot looks pretty good, I guess reactions from certain quarters of the genre community, who used to consider the Dragons their territory, were inevitable. And indeed, Mike Glyer has put up a round-up of … Continue reading
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Tagged awards geekery, Dragon Awards, Dragon Con, fandom wank, fantasy, genre wank, indie publishing, indie vs. traditional, science fiction, Star Wars
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Some Reflections on the 2020 Hugo Ceremony a.k.a. Reminiscing with George
This was not the post I wanted to write today. The post that I hoped to write was, “Hey, I won a Hugo. Go me!” However, Bogi Takács won and a most deserving winner they are, too. And in fact, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, General
Tagged awards geekery, CoNZealand, fandom wank, Hugo Awards, linguistics
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Cora time travels to 1965 and visits a space prison
I’m over at Galactic Journey again today, reviewing the 1965 science fiction novel The Escape Orbit a.k.a. Open Prison by James White as part of the February Galactoscope review round-up. Furthermore, Rosemary Benton reviews another 1965 science fiction novel, Space … Continue reading
The End of a Saga: The Rise of Skywalker
So the Star Wars saga has finally come to an end of 42 years. Of course, we thought that Star Wars had ended twice before, in 1983 and 2005 respectively. So is The Rise of Skywalker really the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged 1970s child, Disney, dystopian, fandom wank, gender, genre wank, Hollywood, race, science fiction film, space opera, Star Wars, US cinema
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WorldCon 77 in Dublin, Part 2: The Hugos
In my last post, I talked about my general experiences at WorldCon 77 in Dublin, Ireland. Now here comes the long awaited Hugo commentary, even though everybody knows by now who the winners are and discussion has largely died down. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Comics, Film, Personal, TV
Tagged architecture, awards geekery, Dublin, fandom wank, Galactic Journey, genre wank, golden age science fiction, Hugo Awards, photos, some people are arseholes, WorldCon 77
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The 2019 Dragon Awards successfully manage to evade full respectability for another year
You’ll have to wait a bit longer for my WorldCon and Hugos post-mortem, because DragonCon, a big convention in Atlanta, Georgia, that is a curious mix between massive media con, inclusive cosplay con and conservative con for wargamers and military … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Comics, Film, TV
Tagged alternate history, awards geekery, Dragon Awards, epic fantasy, fandom wank, genre wank, horror, media tie-in, military science fiction, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, YA fantasy
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Some Reactions to the 2018 Nebula Award Winners and a Post-mortem on the 20Booksto50K Issue
The first reactions to the 2018 Nebula Award winners are pouring in. For my own take, see this post. Lela E. Buis has a brief post listing the Nebula winners, but in the comments she expresses some concern that Mary … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged 20Booksto50K, anthologies, awards geekery, Black Mirror, Dragon Awards, fandom wank, genre wank, Hugo Awards, In Love and War, indie publishing, indie versus traditional, military science fiction, Nebula Awards, Retro Hugos, science fiction, SFWA, short fiction, space opera
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Some Comments on the 2018 Nebula Award Winners (and a bit about the Eurovision Song Contest)
So the winners of the 2018 Nebula Awards were announced yesterday and the finale of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest took place as well. And lest they be forgotten, the winners of the 2018 AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film
Tagged 20Booksto50K, awards geekery, Eurovision, fandom wank, fantasy, gender, genre wank, Hugo Awards, indie versus traditional, music, Nebula Awards, politics, science fiction, short fiction, Spider-Man
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The Premature Death Announcement of Steampunk
Steampunk is apparently dying once again, after having already died sometime before 2017, at least according to this article by Eric Renderking Fisk at The Fedora Chronicles. Back then, the culprits were the so-called “fair-weather Steampunks”, i.e. the folks who … Continue reading
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Tagged death of genre, dieselpunk, fandom wank, gender, genre wank, LGBT, race, Silencer, steampunk, steampunk romance
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