The finalists for the 2024 Hugo Awards were announced on Friday, and as is typical for the Hugos, the ballot has a mixture of the familiar and the fresh. Established Hugo favourites such as John Scalzi (Starter Villain), Ann Leckie (Translation State), Martha Wells (Witch King), Nghi Vo (Mammoths at the Gates, On the Fox…
Breaking Down the Chengdu Hugo Awards Ineligibilities
Every year brings with it a new World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon. And every year brings a new set of Hugo Awards, voted for by the convention’s paying members.
2023 Ignyte Awards: N. E. Davenport, Nghi Vo and John Chu Among Winners
Although the virtual convention FIYAHCON has been on hiatus since 2021, one of its draws has carried on unabated: the annual Ignyte Awards. The 2023 iteration of these awards, which celebrate diverse science fiction and fantasy, took place on Saturday 21 October. The Ignytes have three novel categories, divided by age range. The category for…
Space Opera, Social Commentary and Twisted Fairy Tales Win at China’s First Hugo Awards
The winners of the 2023 Hugo Awards were announced this Saturday. A whole year’s worth of science fiction and fantasy talent as voted for by members of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) were duly honoured with gleaming trophies in the shape of a panda with a rocket. The winner of the Hugo Award for…
Timothy Zahn and Martha Wells Among Winners of 2023’s Rejigged Dragon Awards
The Atlanta convention Dragon Con handed out its eighth set of Dragon Awards on Sunday. Voted for by the public via an online poll, the awards have been a fixture of the annual convention since 2016 and celebrate science fiction and fantasy storytelling across a variety of media. The Best Science Fiction Novel category was…
Where Barbara Brandon-Croft is Coming From
At this year’s MoCCA Arts Fest, cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft sat down to discuss her groundbreaking career as the first syndicated Black woman newspaper comics artist in the US. She talked about the origins of her weekly strip, Where I’m Coming From, its growth and reception, and its contemporary resonance and recent recognition as historically important.
CON DIARY: Emily and Masha go to MoCCA 2023!
April 1 and 2, people from all over the world gathered at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan for the MoCCA Arts Fest, the annual celebration of Comics and Cartoon Arts organized by the Society of Illustrators in New York City. Intrepid WWAC contributors Masha and Emily met up there on the Saturday to browse the…
Carmilla’s Kindred: Affairs of an Oily-Eyed Woman
Women Write About Comics celebrates the 150th anniversary of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla with a series of posts on female vampires in nineteenth-century literature.
2022 Ignyte Awards: P. Djèlí Clark, Eden Royce and Darcie Little Badger Amongst Winners
The annual Ignyte Awards, a prize handed out by FIYAHCON to celebrate diverse voices in fantasy and science fiction, saw their third iteration this Saturday.
INTERVIEW: A History Lesson on The Comic Convention With Mathew Klickstein
Dragon Con. NY Comic-Con. Flame Con. SDCC. The comic convention as juggernaut may seem like a recent occurrence, but the journey to get there stretches back five decades. To understand the present (and what the future may hold), we must look to the past. Pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein’s new book, See You At San…
2022 Dragon Awards: The Expanse, Dune, Star Wars, and More Take Trophies
The seventh annual Dragon Awards was held at Atlanta’s Dragon Con on Sunday, with another 15 winners being chosen from the ranks of science fiction and fantasy novels, films, TV series, comics, and games. According to official statistics, more than 7,000 fans cast their ballots in the awards, which are decided via an online poll.
2022 Hugo Award Winners Take Us To Other Worlds
Chicago became the host of the 80th World Science Fiction Convention at the start of this month, with the annual Hugo Awards handed out on Sunday. A new round of recipients, voted for by the convention membership, went home with the iconic rocket-shaped trophies to honour their contributions to the previous year’s science fiction and…