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Pixel Scroll 12/12/25 I Think Only One Of Mars’ Two Moons Is A Harsh Mistress, But I Can’t Tell Which (1) LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE CELLOPHANE BAG. In “Saints of the Middlebrow”, John Repetti reviews Genre Bending: The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction by Jeremy Rosen at Los Ange…

Pixel Scroll 12/12/25 I Think Only One Of Mars’ Two Moons Is A Harsh Mistress, But I Can’t Tell Which
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Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape of 1970s Northern Ireland – A FIlm by Simon Aeppli By James Bacon: Ireland is a place of bleak and haunting storytelling, with a long history of tales that induce fear, whether it be legendary myths, folk horror, tales of the Gothic, or modern look…

Operation Bogeyman: The Folk Horror Landscape of 1970s Northern Ireland – A Film by Simon Aeppli
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The Game Awards 2025 Winners Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Sandfall and Kepler Interactive’s French action adventure game, took honors as Game of the Year at the 12th Game Awards on December 11. It also won eight other categori…

The Game Awards 2025 Winners
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Pixel Scroll 12/11/25 Pixel Scroll Rock, Pixel Scrolls Swing And Pixel Scrolls Ring (1) DISNEY’S LEGAL MANEUVERS. The Hollywood Reporter tells readers, “Disney Sends Letter to Google on AI Copyright Infringement” – lodging the complaint shortly after agreeing to a partnership with…

Pixel Scroll 12/11/25 Pixel Scroll Rock, Pixel Scrolls Swing And Pixel Scrolls Ring
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2026 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Finalists Announced Adam Roberts in 2008. Photo by Georges Seguin. C. S. Lewis Aldous Huxley James Blish on his Vespa in the Sixties. Charles Stross The Libertarian Futurist Society has selected finalists for the 2026…

2026 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Finalists Announced
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Pixel Scroll 12/10/25 Hey Pixel, Watch Me Pull A Scroll Out Of My File! (1) SEND YOUR NAME ON THE ARTEMIS MISSION. The public is offered a chance to “Send Your Name to Space” on NASA’s Artemis II mission. Submitted names will be included on an SD card that will fly ins…

Pixel Scroll 12/10/25 Hey Pixel, Watch Me Pull A Scroll Out Of My File!
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Pixel Scroll 12/9/25 Lex Luthor, Rod McBan Launch Competing Bids For DC/Warner Brothers (1) HERE’S MY NUMBER AND A DIME. The New York Times know what happens “When the Phone Number in That TV Show Actually Connects Somewhere”. (Behind a paywall.) In the final season of the…

Pixel Scroll 12/9/25 Lex Luthor, Rod McBan Launch Competing Bids For DC/Warner Brothers
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The Panda Has Landed — Barkley’s 2023 Hugo Finally Arrives Chris Barkley with his 2023 Hugo. Photo by Juli Marr. Chris Barkley’s 2023 Hugo Award trophy was delivered today by UPS. Chris says the Hugo trophy is in “Pristine!” condition. Thus ends Barkley’s …

The Panda Has Landed — Barkley’s 2023 Hugo Finally Arrives
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2025 Nommo Awards The winners of the 2025 Nommo Awards were unveiled at the Opening Ceremony of the Aké Arts and Book Festival in Lagos, on November 20. The awards are given by the African Speculative Fiction S…

2025 Nommo Awards
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Pixel Scroll 12/8/25 In Scrolladelphia It’s Worth Fifty Pixels (1) MARGRET ATWOOD WAS THE GUEST ON BBC RADIO 4’S “DESERT ISLAND DISCS”. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] Desert Island Discs is a long-standing (since 1942) favourite programme i…

Pixel Scroll 12/8/25 In Scrolladelphia It’s Worth Fifty Pixels
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2026 Golden Globe Nominees The full list of nominees for the 2026 Golden Globes was announced on December 8. Ther 28 categories for nominations include a new award for Best Podcast. The Golden Globes say it is the first majo…

2026 Golden Globe Nominees
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a tarot deck Let’s celebrate The Universe Box‘s February 3rd release by Tachyon Press! I have opened the universe box that is my life, and will be sharing a piece of it every Monday. By Michael Swanwi…

Michael Swanwick: a tarot deck
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Pixel Scroll 12/7/25 A Slow Glass For Observers
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Bidders for Future Worldcons and Smofcons Heard from in Smofcon 42 Q&A Session By Vincent Docherty:  Summary:  Lisbon was selected to host the 2026 SMOFcon.  Nuremberg joins Brisbane and Kigali as bidders for the 2028 Worldcon.  Expressions of interest wer…

Bidders for Future Worldcons and Smofcons Heard from in Smofcon 42 Q&A Session
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LAcon V Announces 2026 Virtual Business Meeting Schedule The LAcon V Worldcon committee today announced the schedule for the 2026 WSFS Virtual Business Meeting. The committee chose the dates taking into consideration the 147 responses received to their s…

LAcon V Announces 2026 Virtual Business Meeting Schedule
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Pixel Scroll 12/6/25 There Is Nothing Like A Dune (1) IT COULD ALWAYS GET WORSE. “Nineteen Eighty-Four is here? Not quite, says Orwell lecturer”. Britain is not living in an Orwellian dystopia despite fears that Nineteen Eighty-Four has come true,…

Pixel Scroll 12/6/25 There Is Nothing Like A Dune
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Pixel Scroll 12/5/25 There Are Pixels And Then There Are Pixels (1) CONGRATULATIONS! Diana Pavlac Glyer’s book received this accolade in Kent State University Press’ roundup “Six Decades of Publishing What Matters”. (2) THE LAST GENRE? Daniel Yadin gives an ove…

Pixel Scroll 12/5/25 There Are Pixels And Then There Are Pixels
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Goodreads Choice 2025 Winners
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Pixel Scroll 12/4/25 All We Need To Do Is Follow Pixel Through The Nearest Wall
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Sweden Refuses African Worldcon Bidders Visas for Smofcon 42 In-Person Attendance Micheal Kabunga, chair of the ConKigali bid to bring the 2028 Worldcon to Rwanda, Africa, announced today that Sweden has denied their team visas to attend the conrunners’ convention Smofcon which …

Sweden Refuses African Worldcon Bidders Visas for Smofcon 42 In-Person Attendance
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Pixel Scroll 12/3/25 The Scrolling Of Pixel 49
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AudioFile Magazine’s SF and Fantasy Audiobook Picks for December 2025 AudioFile Magazine highlights their sff/h audiobook recommendations for December 2025. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES by Ray Bradbury | Read by Dion Graham AudioFile Earphones Award [Simon & Schus…

AudioFile Magazine’s SF and Fantasy Audiobook Picks for December 2025
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Pixel Scroll 12/2/25 Papa Was A Rolling Scroll, Wherever He Laid His Pixels Was His Home

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A File 770 Special Convention Report: Starbase Indy 2025, Part Two
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TAFF 2026 Race Seeks Candidates The Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund administrators are seeking North American nominees for next year’s eastbound race, which will send the elected North American delegate to MetropolCon, the 2026 Eurocon, …

TAFF 2026 Race Seeks Candidates
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I don't use AI art, except sometimes as part of reporting about AI. But if someone sends an item and a picture to use with it, as in this case, unless I recognize it as AI, I use it. And if a mistake is made I don't come unglued about it, I just try to do better tomorrow

Where was the part where you were asking if it was a mistake in you first comment? If you had in fact started out by asking a question I would have answered it.

Gosh, you're so much better a person than I am.

Pixel Scroll 12/1/25 Mama Was A Pixel, Daddy Was A Scroll, I Was Born To Be Filed (1) LACON V WILL GIVE POETRY HUGO. LAcon V organizers today announced “Best Poem” will be the optional additional category for the 2026 Hugo Awards. This will be the second time that a Hugo Award h…

Pixel Scroll 12/1/25 Mama Was A Pixel, Daddy Was A Scroll, I Was Born To Be Filed
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LAcon V Welcomes Special Guest Terese Mason Pierre Terese Mason Pierre LAcon V organizers have added writer, editor, and poet Terese Mason Pierre as a special guest of the 84th World Science Fiction Convention (“Worldcon”) that will be held in Anah…

LAcon V Welcomes Special Guest Terese Mason Pierre
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