Category: Fandom
Marvel Will Be Making Its Own Movies
Last week, Marvel finally settled with Chairman Emeritus Stan Lee over the royalties from the Spiderman movies and is now looking to produce its own movies. Marvel made...
Letting Our Hair Down for Prince Charming and the Beast
A researcher in London recently did a study where she suggests that fairy tales may end in horror. Graduate student Susan Darker-Smith’s thesis is that young girls...
What is the Nebula Award?
The 2005 Nebula Awards Weekend starts today. This year Anne McCaffrey, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series, will be inducted as a Grand Master. Until the...
Teenage Kix Likes Sexy Fandom!
The Teenage Kix blog uses erudite language to describe teener porno to entertaining effect. Teenage Kix had this to say about Sexy Fandom, “Something else struck...
What is the Hugo Award?
The Hugo Awards are determined by the membership of each WorldCon, including both attending and supporting members. They are given to honor extraordinary works of...
The Cookie Monster by Vernor Vinge
Last year, science fiction author Vernor Vinge won the Hugo award for his novella “The Cookie Monster” which was originally published by Analog Science...
Cookie Monster Learns to His Chagrin that Cookies Are a Sometimes Food
Blue Blood’s Amelia G wrote a humorously poignant ode to Cookie Monster for BlueBlood.net. She included some great barroom bet winner trivia and a surprisingly...
Snark and Mayhem Likes Sexy Fandom!
The Snark and Mayhem blog recently had this to say about Sexy Fandom, “Yes Virgina, somewhere, somehow, there is a fandom sex blog. I wish I was making this up....
Sure As Death and Taxes
Science Fiction author Damon Knight died on April 15 in 2002. I am not a member of SFWA as the WGA is far better at negotiating anything I would be working on for the...
Slashdot Shares My Fears About HHGTG
Yesterday morning Slashdot had a huge thread about how stressed geeks are about the new Hitchhikers movie and its apparent likelihood to suck. According to Slashdot, MJ...
Dungeons and Dragons for Dummies
If you thought you read that book cover and it said something freakish like Dungeons and Dragons for Dummies, your mind is not playing tricks on you. Yes, there is now a...
Star Wars Fans in the Wrong Line
Star Wars fanatical fans tend to be very very committed. They are so into their fandom focus that they can remain committed no matter how bad the Star Wars movies get....
