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(1) HUGO, GIRL! REVERSES PERMANENT RECUSAL DECISION. The Hugo, Girl! the Podcast team tells why they have changed their minds about permanently recusing themselves from the Best Fancast category in “Statement on the 2023 Hugo Awards”. The complete explanation is at the link. Following the Chengdu Hugo Awards, we believed in good faith that we
(1) TOR ACCUSED OF USING AI ART COVER, AGAIN. [Item by Anne Marble.] People strongly suspect that Tor used yet another AI cover for a release by its Bramble imprint. In this case, the book is their hardcover reprint of Gothikana, a dark academia romance by an anonymous author known as RuNyx-- an indie book
(1) SUBSTACK MANAGEMENT CLAIMS THERE WILL BE ACTION. Casey Newton has told readers of his Substack newsletter Platformer that “Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform”. Apparently that really isn’t so broad an outcome as it sounds -- as Robin Anne Reid says in the “fixed that for you” title of her
(1) WHAT HAPPENS IN TRISOLARIS -- STAYS IN VEGAS. “Netflix to Stage '3 Body Problem' Immersive Experience at CES 2024”. Variety tells what visitors at the Las Vegas event will encounter. Next month, Netflix will have a booth on the main CES show floor for the first time — where it will stage an “immersive experience” for the “3
(1) OVERCOMING REJECTION. Her rejection slips are a key part of the display: "Malorie Blackman’s career honoured in British Library exhibition" in the Guardian. “To my great embarrassment, I’ve just discovered that I have been holding onto your novel, HACKER, since February 1990”, read a letter to Noughts & Crosses author Malorie Blackman from the senior commissioning