At the moment the genre community is flagellating itself over a number of recent controversies. There’s the minority view that SF/F fandom has been taken over by a raving bunch of politically correct, group thinking, communist...
Read MoreIn what’s a very even handed and sensible post on the whole Best Fanzine vs Best Blog discussion / debate / dogpile, Mark Plummer says, I was pleased to see mondyboy’s response on The Hysterical Hamster, especially...
Read MoreLook, I know it’s easy to be cynical about the Ditmars, and for that matter local awards like the Chronos and the Tin Ducks. Fuck all people nominate for them, even less actually vote and so the results always feel at best...
Read MoreI know I’m coming late to the party, but while reading this post by Mike Glyer from File 770 I discovered that blogs, such as this one, aren’t actually eligible for a Hugo because, to quote Andrew Trembley,...
Read MoreSo File 770 is a really good resource for all things fannish. But there are time when it feels like the obituary pages in the paper, reporting the death of another old time fan. And when I read these obituaries, mostly of...
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