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Dr. David M. Speer, 86 of Canton, NY passed away from this life on April 18, 2024 at the Plattsburg, NY Hospital.

CANTON -- Dr. David M. Speer, 86 of Canton, NY passed away from this life on April 18, 2024, at the Plattsburg, NY Hospital. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date. David is …

Acclaimed fanzine fan Robert Lichtman died July 6 at the age of 79. He was an 18-time FAAn Award winner -- six for his fanzine Trap Door, 10 for his letters of comment, and twice scored “Number one fan face”. Trap Door also was a two-time Hugo finalist. (Issues 21-34 can be downloaded from eFanzines.com.)

And Donald Trump doesn’t intend to lift a finger to help Steve Scalise rally support.

"First Fandom member and writer of the Fancylopedia Jack Speer passed away this morning [June 28]," writes Patricia Rogers. Speer's famous Fancyclopedia, published in 1944, formalized definitions for hundreds of terms in use by fans. Prior to that, in 1939, he wrote the first history of science fiction fandom, called Up To Now. It was very hard to

(1) PROSECRAFT NUKED FROM SPACE. A site called Prosecraft stirred tremendous controversy yesterday once authors realized thousands of their books were used by the site without their permission. Also, people believe their texts are being used to train AI. Benji Smith’s initial attempt to skate around the controversy was to tell writers he would remove

Elon Musk’s Twitter marked NPR’s account as “US state-affiliated media,” a mislabeling that will de-amplify the outlet’s posts on the social media platform.

And in his first sit-down interview with CNN since taking office, Biden was pressed Tuesday by Jake Tapper on foreign policy, the economic outlook and his son.

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And Democrats sweat the size of the Biden agenda.