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Cats Sleep on SFF: Lessons in Magic and Disaster
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Cats Sleep on SFF: Lessons in Magic and Disaster

Marcus Aurelius Sassafras Vespasian IV, aka Dr. Sassy, yawns while glancing at Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders, asking “Is THIS what you were working on all those times you wer…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 6h

Macavity Awards 2025 Winners
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Macavity Awards 2025 Winners

Sample of award trophy Mystery Readers International announced the winners of the 2025 Macavity Awards on October 7. The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old P…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 20h

Pixel Scroll 10/7/25 Caution: I Brake For Gravity Wells
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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 1d

Pixel Scroll 10/6/25 The Scrolls Are A-File With A Round Of Pixels
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Pixel Scroll 10/6/25 The Scrolls Are A-File With A Round Of Pixels

(1) DAVE MCCARTY DOES NOT APPEAR FOR HUGO AWARD CIVIL HEARING. [Item by Chris M. Barkley.] Dave McCarty did not show up for a trial status hearing on Zoom for the 2023 Hugo Award civil case this mo…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Dismisses Sexual Assault Suit Against Gaiman on Jurisdictional Grounds
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Judge Dismisses Sexual Assault Suit Against Gaiman on Jurisdictional Grounds

A Wisconsin federal has judge dismissed a former nanny’s claims of repeated and brutal rape against author Neil Gaiman, citing jurisdictional issues. Scarlett Pavlovich, who worked as Neil Gaiman’s…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 2d

Sunburst Award 2025

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 2d

Ditmar Awards 2025
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Ditmar Awards 2025

The Ditmar Awards were announced in Canberra on October 5 at Conflux 19, the Australian National SF Convention. Best Novel The Underhistory by Kaaron Warren Best Novella or Novelette ‘Ghost o…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 2d

Australasian Shadows Awards 2025 Winners
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Australasian Shadows Awards 2025 Winners

The Australasian Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the Australasian Shadows Awards on October 5. The juried award is given in eight categories for the finest in horror and dark fi…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Swanwick: home grown tomatoes
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home grown tomatoes

Let’s celebrate The Universe Box‘s February 3rd release by Tachyon Press! I have opened the universe box that is my life, and will be sharing a piece of it every Monday. By Michael Swanwi…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 2d

Golden Joystick Awards 2025 Shortlist
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Golden Joystick Awards 2025 Shortlist

The Golden Joystick Awards 2025 voting is live at GamesRadar+. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads the field with six nominations, including Best Storytelling, Soundtrack, and Lead and Supportin…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 2d

Pixel Scroll 10/5/25 Many Are Scrolled But Few Are Pixeled
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Pixel Scroll 10/5/25 Many Are Scrolled But Few Are Pixeled

(1) TEXAS SCHOOL DISTRICT REMOVES YOLEN BOOK. “Texas school district yanks Holocaust book ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ over ‘DEI content’” reports The Times of Israel. A school district in central Texa…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 3d

2025 Lambda Literary Awards
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2025 Lambda Literary Awards

The winners of the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards were announced on October 4. The “Lammys” garner national visibility for LGBTQ books. The winner of the sff category is listed below, as is one o…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 3d

2025 Frank R. Paul Award Nominees
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2025 Frank R. Paul Award Nominees

The judges for the Frank R. Paul Awards today announced the 2025 nominees and honorable mentions for Best Magazine Cover Art and Best Book Cover Art. The awards will be presented this year at Philc…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 3d

Pixel Scroll 10/4/25 Faraway Pixels With Strange-Sounding Scrolls
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Pixel Scroll 10/4/25 Faraway Pixels With Strange-Sounding Scrolls

(1) BRITISH LIBRARY FAIRY TALES EXHIBIT OPENS IN 2026. [Item by Steven French.] Advanced notice of an interactive family-oriented exhibition coming to the British Library in London next March: “Fai…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 4d

Wonderland Book Awards 2025 Finalists
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Wonderland Book Awards 2025 Finalists

The Wonderland Book Awards are a recognition presented annually at BizarroCon for superior achievement in bizarro fiction writing. Preliminary voting on 2025 the awards, for books published in 2024…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 4d

Grey Walker Review: Absinthe: Sip of Seduction

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 4d

Pixel Scroll 10/3/25 So Obvious It’s Probably Already Been Done
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Pixel Scroll 10/3/25 So Obvious It’s Probably Already Been Done

(1) MILESTONE. File 770’s 400,000th comment was posted today by Lenora Rose. Can you imagine? (2) GOLDSMITH’S PRIZE SHORTLIST. [Item by Steve French.] There are a couple of SF adjacent novels on th…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d

Pike Wins 2025 Glass Bell Award
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Pike Wins 2025 Glass Bell Award

Debut writer Rosanna Pike has been named the winner of the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2025 for her historical novel A Little Trickerie (Fig Tree). The award, judged by a team at Gol…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d

Broadway at the Ballpark
A reimagined Damn Yankees comes to Arena Stage
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Broadway at the Ballpark

A reimagined Damn Yankees comes to Arena Stage Just prior to the beginning of the show. By Rich Lynch: The start of the Major League Baseball playoffs has caused me to think back to when I’d been a…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d

2026 Baen Short Story Contest Deadline Is 2/1
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2026 Baen Short Story Contest Deadline Is 2/1

Entries in the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award writing contest are being accepted through February 1, 2026. The submission window opened October 1. See rules and specifications at the…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d

Pixel Scroll 10/2/25 Up The Airy Pixel, Down The Skiffy Glen, We Daren’t Go A-Scrolling, For Fear Of Little Fen
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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d

Conrad Loyer Wins 2025 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
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Conrad Loyer Wins 2025 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award

Conrad Loyer Conrad Loyer’s “The Carcossa Pattern,” published by Fiyah Magazine, is the winner of the 2025 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story published in 2024. T…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d

2025 Elgin Award Winners
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2025 Elgin Award Winners

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2025 Elgin Awards. BOOK CATEGORY First Place: Mexicans On The Moon • Pedro Iniguez • (Space Co…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 5d

2025 Rhysling Award Winners
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2025 Rhysling Award Winners

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the 2025 Rhysling Awards winners. There are two categories: Short poems of 11–49 lines (101–499 words for prose poems) and Lo…

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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 6d

Fanac.org’s “FanHistory Project Zoom” Announces Five Sessions
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Fanac.org’s “FanHistory Project Zoom” Announces Five Sessions

Edie Stern has created five new FanHistory Project Zoom Sessions that will bring viewers together with panelists who will speak from long personal experience about clubs, fanzines, and sff writing.…

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