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Introduction: I’m going to open discussion of some of the proposed WSFS rules changes in the Chengdu Worldcon’s Business Meeting agenda by setting the table in a series of topical posts. (Download the English-language version here and the Chinese-language version here.) Four proposals to add Hugo Awards categories are on the Chengdu Worldcon Business Meeting
(1) GOOD NEWS. My mother is back to her usual self and physically has regained enough ground for the doctor to send her home to the skilled nursing facility where she lives. She’ll go back tonight. And it’s hard to break the Scroll habit when I have a couple hours left to work on one!
Announcing the latest First Fandom Annual: First Fandom Conversations - Edited by John L. Coker III and Jon D. Swartz, Ph.D. Here are the contents of this latest issue: Forrest J Ackerman: “An Evening with Boris Karloff and Friends” “Franken Forry’s Fotos” “Dr Ackula’s Photo Gallery” “Once Around the Bloch – a Tribute” Robert Bloch: “Verse Fandom” (A
AI-bsolutely Not Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has had it up to here with artificial intelligence used to mimic her father's voice in films. In an Instagram story transcribed by The Hollywood Reporter, Williams said that she stands in solidarity with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) protests against increasing the use of AI in Hollywood in part […]
(1) SFWA GIVERS FUND GRANT DEADLINE OCTOBER 1. During SFWA’s recent annual business meeting, Chief Financial Officer Erin M. Hartshorn gave an update on the current amounts in each of the organization’s benevolent funds: $388,000 for the Emergency Medical Fund, $66,000 for the Legal Fund, and $103,000 for the Givers Fund, which will give away $30,000 worth of grants this