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 and 2021.
So if you’re interested in what I write, here is an overview of all SFF related blogposts of 2021, in chronological order, as well as a list of all the SFF and other fiction I published.
Because I did so many Fanzine/Fancast/Semiprozine Spotlight interviews this year, I separated the Spotlights from the other blogposts.
At this blog:
- Star Trek Discovery realises that “There Is a Tide…”
- Star Trek Discovery realises “That Hope Is You, Part II” in its season 3 finale
- Marvel Does Pleasantville. Episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision
- Two New Kurval Sword and Sorcery Stories Available: The Plains of Shadow and Worm Fodder
- WandaVision: “Now in Color” – and with Twins
- WandaVision Takes a Detour into the Real World in “We Interrupt This Program”
- WandaVision Introduces a Surprise Guest Star “On a Very Special Episode”
- WandaVision Offers Up an “All-New Halloween Spooktacular”
- WandaVision engages in some “Breaking the Fourth Wall” and finally delivers some answers
- We finally get an explanation for what happened “Previously On” WandaVision
- WandaVision offers up “The Series Finale”.
- New Kurval Sword and Sorcery Story Available: The Wolf of Rajala
- Some Comments on the 2020 Nebula Award Finalists
- Marvel’s “New World Order” – Some Thoughts on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- An Open Letter to the 2021 Hugo Finalists, Whoever They May Be
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Meet “The Star-Sprangled Man”
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier tangle with the “Power Broker”
- “The Whole World Is Watching” The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- Cora Is a Hugo Finalist Again!
- Some Thoughts on the 2021 Hugo Finalists
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Face the “Truth”
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier come to the conclusion that it’s “One World, One People”
- Cora’s Adventures at Flights of Foundry, the Obligatory 2021 Birthday Post and Some Other News
- New Science Fiction Story Available: Spelunkers
- Cora is the Winner of the 2021 Space Cowboy Award!
- Of Spies, Linguists and Hugos
- Retro Review: “The God in the Bowl” by Robert E. Howard or Conan Does Agatha Christie
- Some Thoughts on the 2020 Nebula Award Winners
- Loki Finds His “Glorious Purpose”
- Cora Talks About Old SFF Elsewhere
- Loki Meets “The Variant”
- Loki Visits “Lamentis” and Talks to Herself
- New Kurval Sword and Sorcery Novella Available: The Black Knight
- Conan the Socialist
- Loki Experiences “The Nexus Event”, As the Plot Heats Up
- The 2021 July Short Story Challenge – Day by Day
- Loki goes on a “Journey Into Mystery”
- Loki Continues “For All Time. Always.”
- Eternia Revisited: Some Reflections of Masters of the Universe: Revelation
- The 2021 Dragon Award Finalists Take Another Big Step Towards Mainstream Respectability
- Retro Review: “More Than Shadow” by Dorothy Quick
- Retro Review: “The Green Huntsman” by Dorothea Gibbons
- A Mixed Bag: Some Comments on the 2021 Dragon Award Winners
- New Kurval Adventure Available: The Frozen Citadel
- Foundation enjoys “The Emperor’s Peace” and turns out better than expected
- Foundation is “Preparing to Live” and deviates from the books a lot
- Foundation Meets “The Mathematician’s Ghost”
- Foundation realises that there are “Barbarians at the Gates”
- Cora’s Adventures at the Virtual 2021 Octocon
- Foundation realises “Upon Awakening” that the story is still moving at a glacial pace
- Foundation encounters “Death and the Maiden”
- Foundation discovers “Mysteries and Martyrs” and departs even further from the books
- Foundation fails to find “The Missing Piece”, but at least gives us a lot of nearly naked Lee Pace
- Foundation finally experiences “The First Crisis”
- The Tale of Declan, Disruptor of Doors: A Sword and Sorcery Parody
- Star Trek Discovery Takes the “Kobayashi Maru” Test
- Foundation takes “The Leap” and ends its first season
- Thanksgiving Free Fiction: The Robot Turkey Apocalypse
- The Power of Grayskull – Some Reflections on Part 2 of Masters of the Universe: Revelation
- Star Trek Discovery Encounters the “Anomaly” and Deals with Trauma
- Hawkeye realises it’s better to “Never Meet Your Heroes” or pop culture deals with trauma and grief, take 3
- Hawkeye Experiences “Echoes”
- Star Trek Discovery Decides to “Choose to Live”
- Hawkeye wonders whether it’s “Partners, Am I Right?”
- Star Trek Discovery realises that “All Is Possible” in a Tilly-centric episode
- Hawkeye Grapples with the Dark Legacy of “Ronin”
- Some Thoughts on the 2021 Hugo Award Winners and the Ceremony in general
- Two new historical horror tales just in time for the holidays: The Witchfinder’s Apprentice and The Solstice Horror
- Hawkeye realises “So This Is Christmas”
- The 2021 Darth Vader Parenthood Award for Outstandingly Horrible Fictional Parents
- The 2021 Jonathan and Martha Kent Fictional Parent of the Year Award
- as well as twelve regular editions and five holiday editions of Indie Speculative Fiction of the Month and Indie Crime Fiction of the Month
The Complete Fanzine/Fancast/Semiprozine Spotlights:
- Introducing Fanzine Spotlights
- Fanzine Spotlight: Galactic Journey
- Fanzine Spotlight: The Drink Tank
- Fanzine Spotlight: Salon Futura
- Fanzine Spotlight: nerds of a feather, flock together
- Fanzine Spotlight: The Hugo Book Club Blog
- Fanzine Spotlight: Runalong the Shelves
- Fanzine Spotlight: Warp Speed Odyssey
- Not-a-Fanzine Spotlight: Simultaneous Times
- Fanzine Spotlight: Speculative Fiction in Translation
- Fanzine Spotlight: Star Trek Quarterly
- Fancast Spotlight: The Journey Show
- Fancast Spotlight: If This Goes On (Don’t Panic)!
- Fanzine Spotlight: The Full Lid
- Fancast Spotlight: Hugo and Nebula Readership Podcast
- Fancast Spotlight: Women at Warp
- Fancast Spotlight: Hugos There Podcast
- Fanzine Spotlight: Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
- Fancast Spotlight: Appendix N Book Club
- Fancast Spotlight: Hugo, Girl!
- Fanzine Spotlight: Quick Sip Reviews
- Fancast Spotlight: The Skiffy and Fanty Show
- Fancast Spotlight: SFF180
- Fancast Spotlight: Androids and Assets
- Fanzine Spotlight: SFF World
- Fanzine Spotlight: Women Write About Comics
- Fanzine Spotlight: Astrolabe
- Fanwriter/Fancaster Spotlight: Paul Weimer
- Fanzine Spotlight: Young People Read Old SFF
- Fanzine Spotlight: James Davis Nicoll Reviews
- Fanzine Spotlight: Ansible
- Fancast Spotlight: So I’m Writing a Novel
- Fancast Spotlight: Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection
- Introducing Semiprozine Spotlights
- Semiprozine Spotlight: Space Cowboy Books Presents Simultaneous Times
- Fancast Spotlight: Light On Light Through
- Fancast Spotlight: Worldbuilding for Masochists
- Fancast Spotlight: Seldon Crisis
- Fancast Spotlight: The Book Wormhole
- Fancast Spotlight: The Dark Crusade
At Galactic Journey:
- Monks, Demi-Gods and Cat People: The Sword of Lankor by Howard L. Cory
- Death in the Fields: The Lufthansa Flight 005 Crash
- Spies, Poets and Linguists: Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
- Aliens, Housewives and Overpopulation: Orbit 1, edited by Damon Knight
- So Bad It’s Hilarious (The Star Magicians by Lin Carter/The Off-Worlders by John Baxter (Ace Double G588))
- Science Fiction TV from West Germany: Space Patrol: The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion: Episode 1: “Attack From Space”
- All That Glitters: In Praise of Cele Goldsmith-Lalli (with John Boston)
- Moral Dilemmas and Earth in Peril: Space Patrol Orion Episode 2: “Planet Off Course”
- Routine Missions and Asimovian Robots: Space Patrol Orion Episode 3: “Guardians of the Law”
- Paranoia and High Treason: Space Patrol Orion Episode 4: “Deserters”
- Environmental Disasters and the Battle of the Sexes: Space Patrol Orion Episode 5: “Battle for the Sun”
- Welcome to the Space Prison: Space Patrol Orion Episode 6: “The Space Trap”
- The Manchurian Colonel: Space Patrol Orion Episode 7: “Invasion”
Elsewhere:
- Mind Meld: One Spot Holodeck at nerds of a feather, flock together
- “The Heights of Humor and the Depth of Grief: “Ill Met in Lankhmar” by Fritz Leiber” in Journey Planet #59—The Hugo Awards
- I also co-run the Speculative Fiction Showcase, a group blog focussed on indie SFF, and the Indie Crime Scene, a blog focussed on indie mysteries, crime fiction and thrillers.
Podcast appearances:
- Season 2: Episode 1: The World of Comics at The Journey Show
- Episode 97 – Clark Ashton Smith’s “Xiccarph” with special guest Cora Buhlert at the Appendix N Book Club
- Flash Science Fiction Night: Andy Dibble, Cora Buhlert & Douglas A. Blanc at the Space Cowboy Books YouTube channel
- Episode 7 of Star’s End: A Foundation Podcast
- 2021 Hugo Short Story Panel of Awesomeness at the Hugos There podcast (YouTube)
- Episode 106 – C.L. Moore’s “Jirel of Joiry” with special guest Cora Buhlert at the Appendix N Book Club
- 2021 Hugo-nominated Novelettes Panel at the Hugos There podcast (YouTube)
- Foundation 1st Season: Cora Buhlert, Joel McKinnon, and Paul Levinson discuss at Light On Light Through (YouTube)
Fiction (SFF):
- The Plains of Shadow (novelette)*
- Worm Fodder (novelette)*
- The Wolf of Rajala (novelette)*
- Spelunkers (short story)
- “Little Monsters” in Space Cowboy Books Presents Simultaneous Times podcast #39, reprinted in Simultaneous Times Vol. 2.5 (short story)
- “The Gate of Mist” in Whestone Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery Issue 3 (short story)
- The Black Knight (novella)*
- “We Need to Talk” in Space Cowboy Books Presents Simultaneous Times podcast #42 (short story, reprint)
- The Frozen Citadel (short story)*
- The Witchfinder’s Apprentice (short story)
- “The Tale of Declan, Disruptor of Doors: A Sword and Sorcery Parody” (short story)
- “The Robot Turkey Apocalypse” (short story)
- The Solstice Horror (novelette)
*published under the name Richard Blakemore
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