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All Locus Awards Voters Are Not Created Equal

Remember how we called the Locus Awards "possibly the most democratic" of the science fiction awards? Well, uh, never mind. The Locus Awards changed their rules after everyone had already voted, making Locus Magazine subscriber votes count twice as much as other votes, to deny Cory Doctorow the win for best short-story collection after his huge online following all voted for him. More »

11:00 AM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last

Spook Country author William Gibson and Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling will be turned into life-size animatronic statues, which at some point will gain sentience and battle to the death. At least, that'll be the case if the Science Fiction Hall Of Fame is as animatronic-happy as the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame, which it really should be. The two will be honored, along with Betty and Ian Ballantine and weird cyber-artist Richard M. Powers, at the Sky Church in Seattle on June 21, at a ceremony hosted by Connie Willis (Doomsday Book). [Big Dumb Object]

2:14 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
855 views, 16 comments

Latest by Cin: @lazyeight: In the short story anthology Burning Chrome, 3 stories take place in the Sprawl, the same setting for the Neuromancer Trilogy. 1. Burning Chrome (about Case's mentors) 2. New Rose Hotel (also made into a terrible movie... but it had Chris more »