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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 18h

We loved recognizing some of our favorite Los Angeles landmarks in the newest Wonder Man trailer that dropped earlier today!

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

First look at the ‘Wonder Man’ film in the Disney+ ‘WONDER MAN’ series.

The series will follow Simon Williams as he auditions for a role in a reboot of the classic ‘Wonder Man’ film.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

This summer when we visit Los Angeles for the World Science Fiction Convention, you can plan to make a detour to the Paley Centre For Media to see this long-forgotten Hugo Finalist!

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

But due to copyright concerns, there are numerous items in their archives that they do not put on the open web. In fact, they only way they allow anyone to access Murder and the Android is through a visit to their media centre in Los Angeles!

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

The Paley Center does great work in archiving and preserving the history of public popular media in the United States. They help inform discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television. They explore how media shapes public perception and society.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

So the only remaining copy was the one at the NBC local affiliate in Los Angeles, who donated their archives to the Paley Center for Media.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

Murder and the Android was only broadcast on three occasions, the last of which was in 1960.

That was at a time when nobody had a VCR to tape television episodes from broadcast …

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

Now here’s the thing. Every single Hugo-shortlisted short story, novel, novelette, or novella is available through the library. If your local library doesn’t have it, they can bring it in via inter-library loan.

And other than this one movie, every dramatic presentation can be found for sale.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

Bester himself wrote the script for the television play, and the piece was helmed by journeyman director Alex March who pulled together a pretty rock solid group of actors. A very young Rip Torn (Dodgeball, Robocop 3, Freddy Got Fingered) plays the titular android!

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a man with long hair is sitting at a table asking any other questions

Alt: Rip Torn in Dodgeball asking "any other questions?"

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

For those who haven’t read the story on which it’s based, Fondly Fahrenheit is about an android accused of murder. Reading it – with its shifting viewpoints and unreliable narration – it’s difficult to imagine how it was adapted for the screen. It’s a work about mental illness & about identity

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Fantasy & SF featuring the story Fondly Farenheit

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

It was shortlisted for the Hugo Award in 1960, and later that year, Frederick Pohl called it “almost the only first-rate television play on a science fiction theme.”

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

Broadcast on November 8, 1959 as part of NBC’s Sunday Showcase, it’s a television movie based on Alfred Bester’s story Fondly Fahrenheit, and one that is by all accounts quite a good hour of television.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 23h

Of all the works ever shortlisted for a Hugo Award, possibly the most difficult to read or watch is Murder and the Android.

Your best opportunity to watch it will be during LAcon V next summer in Los Angeles.

The story about it is utterly wild. Strap in.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 1d

If you're at New York Comic Con this weekend, find our Guest of Honor Stan Sakai there for the very first time!

More info here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EXB...

Facebook post from Stan Sakai's official account about his NYCC signings.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 3d

It's Banned Books Week - a now more than 40-year-old spotlighting of present and past attempts to censor books in spaces like libraries and schools.

What's on your Banned Books Week reading list?

Image of a green book with text Banned Books Week October 5-11, 2025 written below and a row of rainbow stars placed below that text.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 9d

Seeking brave souls to join the Fellowship of Fandom! LACon V needs volunteers to help guide the journey. Heroes wanted www.lacon.org/volunteer

#LAConV

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 11d

The Frank Gehry-designed Disney Concert Hall is a space-age design that's been used as a stand-in for Stark Enterprises in Iron Man and the Confederacy of Earth's Presidential Palace in the alternate universe of Star Trek Picard, among other fantastical places.

Scene in Iron Man with Tony Stark exiting a silver car with a red vested valet waiting to take the keys. Both are standing in front of a large, silver structured building, which is the Disney Concert Hall.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 11d

Check out these awesome photos from the 2025 Masquerade by photographer Kelcey Bauer.

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 12d

Photos of the Worldcon @seattlein2025.org Masquerade from 2025 were just posted to Flickr.

www.flickr.com/gp/200788293...

Masquerade 2025

Posed photos from the Seattle Worldcon 2025

www.flickr.com

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ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton) In 2030 @edmontonin2030.bsky.social · 16d

Important information that every parent should know.

Meme: Is your teen texting about The Hugo Awards?

WTF - Writing Tribute to Frank Herbert
LOL - Living an Orwellian Life
ROFL - Really Obsessed with Fandom for LeGuin
BDSM - Best Drama: Sanctuary Moon
RUJK - Really Unpleasant J.K.
BRB - Butlerian Rebellion Brewing
FIAWOL = Finding Intellectual Amusement With Outer-Space Literature

Parents, it's time to talk to your kids about responsible fandom.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 13d

With its distinctive white accoustic tiles & arched design, the 2nd Street Tunnel in Downtown Los Angeles excudes science fictionality, which has led to its use in a wide variety of iconic SFF movies including Blade Runner (1982), The Terminator (1984), & Independence Day (1996).

#SciFiLosAngeles

Cars driving through a large, partially lit-up, traffic tunnel at night.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 15d

In July, we highlighted some of the best food the Anaheim area has to offer! Browse our list and feel free to comment your own recs: www.lacon.org/2025/07/01/t...

Fuzzy’s Travelogue: Volume Two – LAcon V

www.lacon.org

Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 15d

With all the updates from LAcon V over the last few months, it's easy to miss some great tips and recommendations from our past newsletters.

Front view of the Anaheim Packing House in Anaheim, CA.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 16d

when I lived in Southern California, I never got out here and regret it. I hope to rectify that next year

Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 17d

Slightly north of the city of Los Angeles, you'll find science fiction's most famous outcropping: Vasquez Rocks.

Scene from Star Trek the Original Series of a Gorn standing over Captain Kirk on a rocky planet.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 17d

You'll recognize it as the location where James T. Kirk fought a Gorn in Star Trek the Original Series, and where Bill and Ted fought their evil android duplicates in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 17d

Slightly north of the city of Los Angeles, you'll find science fiction's most famous outcropping: Vasquez Rocks.

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 21d

Visit our LAcon V table if you're out at Capclave this weekend in Rockville, MD!

We have ribbon freebies, lots of info about con, and even take a selfie with Fuzzy the Channel Island Fox. (Tag us, and we'll share it!)

Fake Instagram post of Fuzzy the Channel Island Fox plush sitting on the LAcon V table at Capclave with all of the promo materials on the table surrounding them.

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