If you missed getting a chance to hear Jeff VanderMeer at steamcon or missed this week's seminar at the U. Bookstore, he's giving a talk t the fantastic Fiction Salon at Hugo House on the 9th. kijohnson won a World Fantasy Award, Cherie Priest talks about destroying Seattle and several other local authors have sold stories! More news below... An Evening with Author/Editor: Jeff...

The Sprocket Society is showing a series of rare films from 1969 tomorrow night plus lots of author and convention updates! Attention local film buff! This Wednesday evening, Sept. 23,  The Sprocket Society is curating a program of great experimental and early electronic/digital films from 1969.  There are several real rarities in the show you won't want to miss, notably the films by Michael Whitney...

Just a quick report about this week's MFR, moving the SWOC locker, reports from Worldcon and a few other news bits! Well, until I can manage the necessary tickets to get to said restaurant, I'll settle for getting my tea at the Tea Cup on Queen Anne. NWSFS had a lurvely MFR there this past Wednesday and I highly recommend it for tea lovers.  The new shop has twice the square footage, making for...

Lots of author, book and award updates, Ray Bradbury fighting for libraries, and lots of movie news. Apex returns from hiatus on July 6th; more details over on jennifer_brozek 's blog! Oh, and more news about the Apex lottery and other interesting writerly stuff. djwudi has a lovely selection to links about such diverse topics as Transformers is an art film , Disney's princesses...

New stuff at Seattle Geekly plus the Apex Halloween short story contest, new Futurama episodes, Liam Neeson heading up the A-Team and the Gundam beautifying the Tokyo skyline... One of my fellow editors, Michele, has a new gig! She's joining the news team for Broad Universe , a group of SF/F/H women writers including folks like Ursula leg Guin, Suzy McKee Charnas, nancy Kress and others...

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I'm up from the sickbed and back in the saddle again. Our sister sites have a ton of updates about new cons, zombies and other kewl stuff. Plus I have some LJ bits including cool stamps and really funny pics plus pics from Miyazaki's new film, Ponyo ! Cool news bits from our sister blogs: New events have been added to the Cascadia Convention and Events News including a several new cons...including...

According to the newsie-verse, it's flue, flu and still more flu all the time. I hope everyone reading is healthy and stays that way. Now, that being said, her are a few interesting blogdates: Free Comic Book Day is this upcoming Saturday, and a few author updates from folks like Jeff Carlson and Ellen Datlow! jennifer_brozek has a thoughtfully-written yet blunt assessment as to why she...

Robopenguins? Check. Gundam Academy in Japan? Check. C-Cubed 16 news? Check. All this plus blogdates from our sister site, Open Circle Theatre in Belltown doing sci-fi, plus a ton of other neat stuff. Hard to believe that the con calendar is advancing, but it is. No rest for the wicked. If you've never attended C-Cubed, it's a great relaxicon where con-runners swap strategies, techniques, helpful...

Originally published at eclecticism . You can comment here or there . It took roughly a week to get here, but really, I don’t figure that’s too bad, given my usual photowhoreish ways. Trust me, if I’d been employed (i can haz job now, plz? kthkxbye) it would have taken a lot longer than a week. Still and all, just a few minutes ago, the last of my shots from Norwescon made it up to Flickr...