The Denver Area Science Fiction Association
According to John Scalzi, "Connie Willis has been given the 2011 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America", which he should know because he's currently the president!
There's some rarified company that Connie Willis is joining, which I could list but wikipedia happily lists them all there. Much congratulations to Connie Willis!
Ed Bryant, Jr., a Colorado writer and all around great man, has found himself in a bit of a financial predicament brought about by, among other things, medical costs. The "Friends of Ed" organization has decided to showcase a two-pronged auction event to help raise funds for Ed's immediate needs.
A live auction will take place on October 23, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in the Denver Tech Center during MileHiCon 43. Additionally, an online auction through Ebay will take place in the week prior to MileHiCon 43, ending on both Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, 2011.
TheWildwriters.com is now up! This site is a group effort by area writers in several fields, including science fiction and fantasy. There are also children's books, from picture books throughtweens, YA, and nonfiction. Ebooks are available through Smashwords; print copies of many titles are also available.
There's also the Whiny Writer video. So far she's just trying to come up with a perfect opening line...
(Sent in by Jane Bigelow)
This is interesting - I found it via Evil Hat's blog. I don't know how many roleplayers check this site, but it's worth a look.
Technoir is a rules light game set up with the sort of cyberpunk and hard boiled roleplaying, using a rules-light system using tags. There's a Kickstarter that's already made it's nut, but there's also a Website for the game, where you can download the beta version of it.
From his wife's Livejournal:
On Wednesday afternoon, June 1, 2011, Joel had a respiratory depression that caused a heart attack, anoxic brain damage and major organ failure. Despite the very best efforts of the paramedics and the team at Hennepin County Medical Center, Joel was pronounced brain dead at around 5:37pm Thursday June 2nd, In accordance with his wishes, he shared the gift of life through organ and tissue donation.
With the upcoming release of John Scalzi's fanfic of "Little Fuzzy", Sf reviews.net is doing reviews of all of the previously existing Fuzzy books.
Check it out at http://www.sfreviews.net/index.html
(Copied from http://norilana.livejournal.com/177319.html .)
This is a difficult post for me to write, since I am once again asking for help.
But... I'll try to make it short and only bittersweet.
As many of you know, I am losing my home to foreclosure. (Some of the almost-unbelievable hellish details of these past 4 years can be seen here.)
Well, it seems that BBC Four is doing an adapatation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and there's a teaser now available out on the web:
So, the Penny Arcade guys are playing with expectations again. Usually they do a three panel strip poking fun at something to do with gaming - and usually it's video gaming - but this doesn't stop them from taking a side trek into Scifi, such as with
Our local artist, writer, and friend was recently reviewed by AllPulp blog, and you can read about it here: http://allpulp.blogspot.com/2010/10/pulp-artists-weekend-interview-with_....
There's also a gallery of her work there at http://allpulp.blogspot.com/2010/10/laura-givens-featured-artist-in-all.....
