Aug 17, 2019
I needed this reminder,
maybe you do too ❤️
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I needed this reminder,
maybe you do too ❤️
Large Scale Fanzine Scanning Projects (Fanac): Fandom History
A special thank you to Fanac - a science fiction and fantasy fandom group that has been working to preserve their corner of fandom history. Fanac focuses on literary (book) fandom, with an emphasis on science fiction and fantasy fanzines from the 1930s-1960s. They maintain a website that hosts many fanzines in PDF format. This year they started offering scanning stations at science fiction conventions where people can bring their zines to be scanned. They will have a scanning station at Dublin Worldcon this weekend. They also have a wonderful YouTube channel: https://youtuber.com/c/FANACFanHistory From their latest newsletter "At Boskone 56 (February) and again at Corflu 36 (May), we arranged with the conventions to set up our FANAC Scanning Station. We bring at least one scanner and computer and ask that fans bring fanzines to the convention that we can scan and archive online. This has been pretty successful, resulting in our scanning over 2,000 pages at Boskone and over 3,500 pages at Corflu. We had many notable contributions of fanzines for scanning, including from Grant Canfield, Frederic Gooding III, Susan Graham and her scanning team at UMBC, Rob Hansen, Dan Steffan, Geri Sullivan (2019 TAFF delegate), Pat Virzi and especially Rob Jackson who allowed us to scan a large stack of zines that were later auctioned for fan charities. Since Corflu, we’ve put over 600 fanzines online. We’ve arranged with the Dublin 2019 Worldcon to have a scanning station there as well. If you’re coming, bring something for us to scan. FANAC Fan History Project website: http://fanac.org As of today, we have 8,069 fanzines online, with over 92,500 pages. Of those, 2,902 are newszines (and thanks to David Ritter for the first volume of Taurasi’s Fantasy News!). Recently, we’ve tried to increase the number of fanzine titles for which we have complete runs. These are as varied as Joe Kennedy’s Vampire (1940s) to Karen Anderson’s Vorpal Glass (1960s) to Benford/White/et al’s Void (1950s-1960s). Other recently complete runs include Aporrheta (Sanderson), Bane (Ryan), Bastion (Bentcliffe), BEM (Ashworth), Blat! (White/Steffan), Epsilon (Hansen), Oopsla! (Calkins), Pendulum (Venable), Pong (White/Steffan), Spaceways (Warner), Starspinkle (Ellik), Telos (Nielsen Hayden), and Tolkien Journal (Plotz/Meskys).
As a sidelight, one of our favorite fans, Lee Hoffman, also published two of the earliest (if not the earliest) folk music fanzines, and we’ve put those online as well: Caravan (1957-59) and Gardyloo (1959-60). We’ve also been adding a lot of UK fanzines. These have ranged from the 1930s to the present. They include Maurice Hanson’s Novae Terrae (thanks to Rob Hansen for the scans), C.S. Youd’s (aka JohnChristopher) Fantast, plus the above listed zines BEM, Aporrheta, Bastion, and Epsilon. Others include: Weston’s Speculation, Clarke’s Eye, Joan Carr et al’s Femizine, Enever & Parker’s Orion, Berry’s Pot Pourri, and more. One more interesting item from the UK: thanks to Ian Sorensen, we have the transcript of the highly entertaining GoH speech that James White gave at the 1983 Eastercon in Glasgow, titled “The Scottish Influence on Sector General”. With our scanning station at Dublin 2019, we hope to add many Irish and other European fanzines.
You might also be interested in newly uploaded issues of Terry Carr’s Innuendo and Lighthouse, Riddle’s Peon, Geis’ Psychotic/Science Fiction Review, Alien Critic... and Harlan Ellison’s fanzines."
Just home from Dublin2019...
...exhausted but very content. We met people we haven’t seen for a decade and a half and often more (and unfortunately missed others who we knew were there but never saw), talked too much, surprisingly didn’t drink too much, and didn’t eat or sleep enough.
@dduane has removed her GoH badge and is already curled up in Our Own Bed, because we’re into Dublin again tomorrow for a couple more meetings of longer duration than an across-the-void wave between Up and Down escalators, then home again to have a demure collapse for the rest of the week and finally get back to business.
The business will include a Caturday, after the first (or furst) time in years I missed posting one.
Well done, Con Chair James and the Con Committee! Let’s bid to have another one!
In a while... :-D
I’M GOING TO WORLDCON!!!
Just bought my membership and paid for my accommodations! Next up: flights XD
Is anybody else going???
My Dublin 2019 Schedule
@dduane‘s schedule is much, much busier, but then she IS one of the GoHs. :->
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Thursday 15th August
Opening Ceremonies, featuring the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards
20:00 - 21:50, Auditorium (Convention Centre Dublin)
Join us on Thursday evening for the official opening of the convention! Hosted by Ellen Klages and Dave Rudden, this evening of surprises will introduce you to our Guests of Honour, present the Big Heart and First Fandom Awards, and pay tribute to science fiction’s illustrious past with the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards. Plus a preview of the many exciting performances that await you over the weekend!
Ellen Klages, Dave Rudden
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Friday 16th August
Reading
10:30 - 10:50, Liffey Room-3 (CCD)
Peter Morwood
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Sharp Storytelling
13:00 - 13:50, Wicklow Room-3 (CCD)
Remember the "Greatest swordfight" from the "The Princess Bride"? Or Darth Vader's duel with Obi-Wan? How about Aragon versus the Nazgûl? There can be only one! Bob Anderson was an Olympic competitor turned swordmaster/fight choreographer who knew how to tell a story with weapons. Our panellists will analyse how he did it.
Thomas Årnfelt (Moderator), Rachel Hartman, Zoë Sumra, Ingvar Mattsson, Peter Morwood
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Kaffeeklatsch: Peter Morwood
Format: Kaffeeklatsch
16 Aug 2019, Friday 14:00 - 14:50, Level 3 Foyer (KK/LB) (CCD)
Peter Morwood
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Saturday 17th August
(free day; I can go to other panels)
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Sunday 18th August
Octocon presents: The Monster’s Perspective
11:00 - 11:50, Wicklow Hall 2B (CCD)
Often fiction is an exploration of the human condition as written from the perspective of the monster, the outsider, the other - the one who is different and so questions things which we may have taken for granted. But who defines who is the monster? Previous Octocon Guests of Honour and guests revisit a discussion from Octocon 2018.
Janet O'Sullivan (Moderator), Peter Morwood, Emma Newman, Pat Cadigan, Oisin McGann.
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Independent Authors and Book covers
15:00 - 15:50, Liffey Hall-2 (CCD)
Standing out in the crowd is always a challenge even for conventionally-published novels in a busy marketplace. It's even more of a challenge for an independent author attempting to present competitively and professionally in a field where readers decide to purchase your book (or not) based on a scrap of imagery usually no bigger than a postage stamp. Diane Duane discusses the challenges of adapting novel-cover design to leverage current trends, including examples of hardware / software pairings that have proven useful in creating new, fresh-looking covers on the fly.
Diane Duane, Peter Morwood
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The 2019 Hugo Awards Ceremony
20:00 - 22:00, Auditorium (CCD)
The premiere event of the Worldcon will take place on Sunday evening, as we celebrate the best science fiction and fantasy of 2018. Hosted by Afua Richardson and Michael Scott, we invite you to join us in congratulating this year’s finalists and winners of the prestigious Hugo Awards.
Afua Richardson (co-Moderator), Michael Scott (co-Moderator)
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Monday 19th August
Creative couples
11:00 - 11:50, Wicklow Hall-1 (CCD)
C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner; Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight; Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. The histories of science fiction and fantasy are studded with examples of couples who are notable as partnerships as well as individuals. But what is it really like to combine art, work, and life? When, why, and how does a project become a collaboration? In this panel, two creative couples will discuss their experiences.
Heide Goody (Moderator) Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman.
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Closing Ceremonies
16:30 - 17:20, Auditorium (CCD)
All good things must come to an end – and for Dublin 2019, an Irish Worldcon, that ending will come on Monday at 16:30. We will take a look back at the weekend that was, say farewell to our Guests of Honour, and get a sneak preview of what awaits us at the 2020 Worldcon, CoNZealand.
Eoin Colfer (Moderator)
@dduane (who’s one of the Writer GoHs) and I were in Dublin on Saturday to record this. It was an unexpected honour for me, and seeing Busby Berkley on the list was just as unexpected.
It shows, too! :-)
He was the creator of all those amazing geometry-from-above song-and-dance sequences which led IIRC to synchronised swimming as an Olympic event, and though he’s not the first name you’d associate with science fiction, fantasy - escapism - is another matter.
A SpaceX capsule carrying three US astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has arrived at the International Space Station.
So pleased to see Jeanette Epps made it to the ISS - she was a guest at Dublin WorldCon, and presented the Hugo to Mary Robinette Kowal for The Calculating Stars (which involves lady astronauts). I went to a panel where she talked about being an astronaut, too.
THEY WON GUYS! WE WON!