The Chronos Awards for 2009 will be presented at Continuum 6: Future Tense and nominations will be opening in mid December. The award categories are being reviewed and the Continuum will be seeking input as to what the categories should be. The nomination and voting process will be similar to the 2008 awards, however feedback on that is also welcomed. Please leave a comment here or send your...

Life is stupidly tiring and busy at the mo'. Lex is refusing to sleep, which woldn't be so bad but he insists we don't sleep either. So here is a mostly pre-written post I've been meaning to get up for ages. Way back in January I did the Interview Meme . As it stood, I still had a bunch of questions to answer, I answered most of them at the time but babalon_93 hit me with five questions that required...

The mid to late nineties was when I first had the base idea for the Continuum Conventions. I still have most of my notes from then, filed away where I can one day come across them and say, "So that's where they were!" I've never thought as myself as a good person for running cons, or something like the Continuum Foundation for that matter. I've only ever stepped up for such jobs because someone...

The Continuum Foundation is proud to announce the Chronos Awards for excellence in Victorian SF, fantasy and horror for works published in 2008. The Awards will be presented at Continuum 5 - Galaxies By Gaslight  in August. Full rules are available here , and nominations close on 28 June 2009 .

Nomination for the Chronos Awards to be awarded at Continuum 2009 are now open. To lodge a nomination please click on the Read More link below. Nominations are being accepted for the following categories: Professional: Best Novel; Best Novella or Novelette; Best Short Story; Best Collected Work; Best Artwork. Fan: Best Fan Writer; Best Fan Artist; Best Fan Publication in any Medium. ...

So, I and a bunch of other people ( nico_wolfwood , arcadiagt5 and at least one other ) are hopefully going to run a panel recommending anime that (a) avoids the things that put a lot of non-anime fans off and (b) has the stuff sf fans like. But given how subjective taste is I wanted to double check to make sure we weren't suggesting stuff we like but most other people hate. I did...