File 770

Yvonne Penney

(1) SFF IN TRANSLATION. Rachel S. Cordasco announces that the second issue of Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine is now live. Cordasco…

Remco Meisner

By Hinse Mutter: Today was the 7th edition of the Dutch Fantasticon, a yearly convention held in Nieuw-Vennep, the Netherlands. The event featur…

Christopher Hensley

Star Car #4. Not in need of highways of power but still retro-futuristic.

Alexander Jablokov

(1) MORE HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION NEWS. Earlier today File 770 published an extensive report: “HWA Dissolves Executive Director Position Amid…

Baen Books Establishes New Writing Award Named in Honor of David A. Drake

Baen Books has established a new short story award named in honor of David A. Drake. Submissions open on September 24. As with the two current w…

McCarty, Yalow and Two More Chengdu Worldcon Officials Censured, Banned by Vote of LAcon V Business Meeting

The LAcon V WSFS business meeting has voted to censure and impose bans of varying lengths on four individuals for their actions related to the 2…

Todd Sanders

(1) SFWA GRAND MASTER. Nancy Kress has been named SFWA’s 43rd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. The announcement was made August 28 at LAcon V.

Ian Stockdale

File 770 reported the First Fandom award winners on the night of Opening Ceremonies (“First Fandom Awards Given at LAcon V Opening Ceremonies”).…

Pixel Scroll 8/18/26 A Circle Of Ent Leaves Made Into A Gateway

(1) MASS BOOK THEFT FOLLOW-UP. L.W. Currey Inc. has sent an additional alert to their customers about the major book theft they suffered. The or…

Pixel Scroll 8/15/26 This Is The Emergency Scroll System. Look At Your Left, Look To Your Right. See There’s A Scroll To Read

(1) IT’S ALL GREEK TO YOU. [Item by Steven French.] Despite being constructed for very different purposes, ‘artificial’ languages such as Elvish…

GoFundMe Started to Help Sheila Williams and Husband Get Skilled Nursing Care

By Ian Randal Strock: Sheila Williams (and Tina Lee) hired me to be the editorial assistant at Asimov’s (and Analog) sf magazines, way back when…

A Sensual Cesspool of Iniquity: James Bacon Explores Ireland’s Banned Comics

Journey Planet editor and comics historian James Bacon presented his research on Ireland’s forgotten comics censorship campaign at the National…

Beneath the Cape: The Life of Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi By Steve Vertlieb: Among actors of the golden age of horror, few performers were as visible as Bela Lugosi…except, of course, when c…

Pixel Scroll 11/4/24 There Were Three Files Scrolled Out Of The West, Their Pixels For To Try

(1) DID YOU VOTE? I voted by mail two weeks ago, and was notified the ballot has been received and counted. However, the official LA County vote…

2024 Tähtifantasia Award

The Helsinki Science Fiction Society has announced the winner of the 2024 Tähtifantasia Award, given for the best fantasy book published in Finn…

Working Class Grant

The Speculative Literature Foundation has announced that Nancy Omondi is the winner of the 2025 Working Class Writers Grant.

Jennifer Stevenson

Review by Jennifer Stevenson: It’s been a long, long time since my witchy days, but these three novellas bring it all back like riding a bicycle…

Writer Beware

(1) BACK TO SCHOOL. Inverse weighs in with “’Starfleet Academy’ Review: Star Trek Takes Its Biggest Swing In Years”. Mild spoilers.