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- 29 August - 2 September 2013 • LoneStarCon 3 (Worldcon), San Antonio. TX, USA
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2014
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Ansible
310, May 2013
Algis Budrys
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"Don’t
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Locus
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Ray
Harryhausen (1920-2013)
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N.
Lee Wood and cancer
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Clarke
Award winner;
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April 2013
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More
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"BRING
ME THE SEVERED HEAD OF RUPERT MURDOCH!"
• Jim Mowatt
wins TAFF 2013; voting details etc in
TAFFline #6,
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Summer news review
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2013 Awards
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Complex
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"War
of the worlds: who owns the political soul of science fiction?"
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Hugo
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Clarke
Award shortlist
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Shade Books: another mess
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Banks: bad
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April Moorcock Horror!
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Award winner: Brian Francis Slattery, Lost Everything
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Paul
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James
Herbert (1943-2013)
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Anders
Celsius outlines an sf story c1735
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Award
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Card's
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February
2013
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Hobbit
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Awards shortlist
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Nebula
Awards shortlist
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3-D
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Scott Card to script Superman comics;
and
what of his film?
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"Dr
Fredric Wertham Lied And Lied And Lied About Comics"
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Workshop claims to own the term "space marines" (as used
by Heinlein, Doc Smith ...);
update
with better news
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Tolkien
estate countersued over LOTR slot machines
January 2013
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"Flawed
forecasting"
• Stoker Awards
preliminary ballot
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Hugo
Gernsback, SF Artist?
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PULP-O-MIZER
Pulp Magazine Cover Generator
• "The
battle against 'sexist' sci-fi and fantasy book covers"
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Kitschies
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January meeting rescheduled
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Awards shortlist
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Bogus
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Jay
Lake's cancer treatment fundraiser
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GUFF
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Philip
K. Dick Award shortlist
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Theresa
Derwin vs Jim Mowatt
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The
Hobbit and Macroeconomics
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Man
Somehow Eats Entire Denny’s Hobbit Menu Without Dying
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Charles
Chilton (1917-2013)
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Costa
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