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(1) SMOFCON COMING TO SEATTLE. [Via Petréa Mitchell.] Last night Seattle won the right to host next year's Smofcon, the international travelling con for people who run cons. It'll be December 6-8 at the SeaTac Doubletree.Attending memberships are $60 through sometime Tuesday. See more at the Smofcon 41 website. (2) INDIE INK AWARDS. [Item by
In 1902, Liang Qichao, a reformist intellectual of the late Qing dynasty, wrote a futuristic story called “A Chronicle of the Future of New China.” In the unfinished manuscript, he depicts Shanghai hosting the World Fair in 1962 (“Confucius year 2513”), on the fiftieth anniversary of a successful reform movement. By then, he imagines, China has developed a multiparty system
Science Fiction & Fantasy Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 178 - I'm Feeling Lucky by Leonid Kaganov [45:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (7098) Clarkesworld Magazine and Forever Magazine; owner of Wyrm Publishing; and a eight-time Hugo Award Nominee for Best Editor (short form). His anthologies include Upgraded, Galactic Empires, More Human Than Human, Touchable Unreality, The Final Frontier, Not One of Us, The Eagle has Landed, and the Best Science Fiction of the Years series. His most recent anthology, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5, was published in October...