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The Cultural Practice of Worldcon
The World Science Fiction Society became an organization in 1946 to govern how Worldconlocations were selected, and how cons were run.But there's still little documentation of what a Worldcon actually...
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Kara Zor-El Unbound
The second-most famousKryptonian, Kara Zor-Elfinally gets the attentionshe deserves in Woman of Tomorrow.(Image via DC.com)Created in 1959 as a female version of the most popular character in comic...
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Edgelord Cinema Maximalism (Hugo Cinema 1976)
This blog post is the nineteenth in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog post is here. Warning: Contains references to sexual violence...
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Successful Mimicry
Given the character’s adherence to logic and to the scientific method, Sherlock Holmes has long been considered at least liminally a science fictional character. In various guises, and with...
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A Canticle For Hopepunk
From early days in the genre, novels were often built out of previously-published short stories. The result was called “A fix-up.” Stories that had been popular in pulp magazines sometimes helped...
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The Word For "World" Isn't America
In China they honour works of science fiction with the Galaxy Award, the Atorox Award is presented annually to the best Finnish work of SFF, Australia’s Ditmar Award recently celebrated 50 years of...
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I've Got A Bad Feeling About This (Hugo Cinema 1977)
This blog post is the 20th in a series examining past winners of the Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo Award. An introductory blog post is here.Imagine the producers of these four movies being told that...
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Judge, Jury, Executioner ... and Prophet
The black-clad implaccable figure of Judge Joseph Dredd looms large over the history of British comic books.Ever since March 5, 1977 when he first graced the pages of the comic book 2000 A.D., Dredd...
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Trivia is Latin for "Three Roads"
One of the ongoing projects of this blog has been to compile fun facts about Hugo Award finalists. To date, we’ve been publishing trivial tidbits mostly on Twitter, but recent developments indicate...
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The Golden Age Of Wes Anderson Is Twelve
Asteroid City may be Anderson’s first unambiguously genre movie, but for many science fiction fans, it feels like he’s always been one of us.Wes Anderson's aesthetics have often harkenedback to the...
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同理心的触手 (The Tentacle of Empathy - Mandarin Translation)
过去二十多年里，科幻界一种值得思考的动向，是作品中描写“非人类”意识的方式在不断演进。图片来自 Hachette UK自从这一作品类型诞生以来，许多创作者以令人钦佩的努力，将人类级别权利的主体不断扩充到越来越广大的生命群体。不过，在起初的几十年里，他们多数很难构想全然异类的存在。诸如克林贡人（《星际迷航》）、伍基人（《星战》）、克孜人（拉里·尼文作品）、咖喱星人（英剧 Doctor...
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列王若尘 (The Tsars Like Dust - Mandarin Translation)
虽说科幻拥有其它题材难以企及的辽阔空间可以让艺术家挥毫描画新的世界体系，但我们读到的作品往往落入最陈旧、最粗糙、最愚蠢、乃至最落后的政府形式之窠臼：君主制。正值伊丽莎白二世女王陛下践祚七十载溥天同庆之祺，本博客编创团队谨祈愿天下人主（包括虚君如温莎王室者）皆喜获废位。（图片来自IMDB.com)这方面的例子不胜枚举：阿尔达拉公主（出自Buck Rogers 系列），灰色王子 (Jack...
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太空纳粹死光光 (Space Nazis Must Die - Mandarin Translation)
希特勒的打手在科幻的世界里留下了巨大的阴影。纳粹士兵的身影，浮现在《星战》的帝国军队、Doctor Who 中的“达立克” (Dalek), 《萤火虫》系列影视剧中的联盟，以及 Blake’s 7 剧集中的地球联邦突击队这些虚构产物中。“我们会在（冲浪）沙滩上与敌人战斗到底……”（图片来自 IMDB.com...
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解药：浓度百分之二十五 (The 25 per cent solution - Mandarin Translation)
过去几年间，雨果奖某些奖项险些因未满章程规定的最低投票数而遭取消。世界科幻大会已非上世纪六七十年代可比。(图片来自...
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The editors of this fanzine are grateful for the Hugo nomination, and have had our best articles of 2022 translated into Mandarin so they are accessible to Chinese fans at this year's Worldcon....
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The Numbers Game
Over the past decade, there has been a regularly recurring argument about the maximum number of individual contributors that can be listed for each group finalist on the Hugo ballot. This is more...
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A Conversation With Wole Talabi
Success as a science fiction author didn’t come out of nowhere for Wole Talabi. The Nigerian-born author’s byline has been appearing regularly in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex...
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The Un-American Treatment of a Leftist Science Fiction Fan
Professor Chandler Davis: author, mathematician,activist, and science fiction fan.Chan Davis (1929 - 2022) was well known to science fiction fans of the 1940s and 1950s. He was a fanzine editor, an...
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Indie Cinema And The Hugo Of Doom
At the 2023 WSFS Business Meeting, a constitutional amendment was passed that would (if ratified at the 2024 Business Meeting) add two new categories to the already long list of Hugo Awards: Best...
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Old Man's Boss Baby
(Image via Goodreads)There’s a saying in the labour movement: make someone a boss and they’re going to act like a boss.It’s an observation based on a familiar pattern of workers becoming managers and...
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