SFWA at the American Librarian Association
SFWA will have a table at the American Librarian Association Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits, January 24-28, 2014, in Philadelphia, PA.
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Event: Michael A. Burstein Imagines Technical Communication in 2073
Michael A. Burstein, a long-time member of SFWA, will share his ideas at the October meeting and webinar of the New England Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Burstein has a Master’s in Physics and has published frequently in Analog magazine. He is a winner of the Campbell Award and a frequent Hugo and Nebula nominee for his short fiction.
Strange Horizons 2013 fund drive–last call!
In his editorial for this week’s issue, editor-in-chief Niall Harrison
described 2013 as an “exciting and energising year” for Strange
Horizons.
SFWA Blog Commenting Policy
SFWA is a professional organization, and in the interest of supporting that mission, blog comments will be monitored. Comments containing derogatory epithets, baiting or threatening content are subject to removal by the moderators.
2013 Rhysling Award Winners
The Science Fiction Poetry Association recently announced the 2013 Rhysling Award Winners: Short Poem Category: First Place: “The Cat Star” by Terry A. Garey Second Place: “Futurity’s Shoelaces” by Marge Simon Third Place: “Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels” by Megan Arkenberg Long Poem Category: First Place: “Into Flight” by Andrew Robert Sutton Second […]
Sunburst Awards Announced
The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2013 adult award is Maleficium by Martine Desjardins; translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel (Talonbooks) and the winner of its 2013 young adult award is Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Doubleday Canada).
The Sunburst Award Society Announces Copper Cylinder Awards
The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the winners of the second annual Copper Cylinder Awards, an annual member’s choice award selected by members of the Sunburst Award Society for books published during the previous year.
Regional Meeting – Archon 37
There will be a SFWA Regional Meeting held during Archon 37 in Collinsville, IL. Time: 12:20pm Date: Sunday, October 6, 2013 Location: Room Illini A Collinsville Gateway Center All SFWA members are welcome.
In Memoriam: A. C. Crispin
Author A. C. Crispin (b.1950) died on September 6 after a year-long battle with cancer. Crispin began publishing in 1983 with the Star Trek novel Yesterday’s Son. She continued writing media tie-in novels, including for the television show V and the films Star Wars, Alien, and The Pirates of the Caribbean. In 1989, she published her first original novel, Starbridge, and co-wrote six sequels to it. In 2005, […]
In Memoriam: Frederik Pohl
Polymath and former SFWA President Frederik Pohl (b.1919) died on September 2 after entering the hospital in repiratory distress earlier in the day. Pohl joined science fiction fandom in the 1930s and quickly became an integral part of the New York science fiction scene. He was denied entry to the first Worldcon in 1939 as part of the “Exclusion Act.” By that time, he had begun to publish, with his poem “Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna,” appearing in 1937 and his first story, the collaboration with C.M. Kornbluth “Before the Universe” in 1940 (as S.D. Gottesman, one of several pseudonyms Pohl used, either singularly or in collaboration).
