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Elliot Shorter Hospitalized
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Fan Elliot Shorter has been hospitalized since Thurdsay night, suffering from gangrene and kidney failure...

Science Fiction L.A. is a new online fan community
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George Van Wagner's Science Fiction L.A. aims to bring the fandom experience to people who'd rather participate on-line...

New SF Convention Search Engine Available
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Nathan E. Lilly has created Con Finder to help fans locate science fiction conventions within geographical ranges...

2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge accepting fan-film entries
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AtomFilms and Lucasfilm are running the 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge, inviting fans to submit short (up to 5 minute) films parodying the Star Wars universe or...

WorldCon 2009 publishes its first Progress Report
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Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, has published its first Progress Report, which includes articles on the Fan Guest of Honor, the failed 1977 bid...

Character auction for Autism Speaks
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Several genre and non-genre authors are auctioning off naming rights to characters in upcoming novels, to support Autism Speaks...

"Match it for Pratchett"
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Donations to match Terry Pratchett's recent $1 million to help cure Alzheimer's disease are well into five figures in less than a week...

Denvention 3 looking for an at-convention logo merchandise vendor
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Denvention 3, this year's World Science Fiction Convention, is accepting bids from potential at-convention vendors of logo merchandise...

DUFF deadline approaching
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The candidates for this year's Down Under Fan Fund are Steve & Sue Francis, and Murray Moore. Deadline is 31 January 2008...

Street Cred—a fan's view of the writers' strike
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SFScope's television reviewer Sarah Stegall flew to Los Angeles to participate in Mutant Enemy Day, on behalf of the writers. Here's her report and photos...

TAFF winner: Chris Garcia
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Chris Garcia won this year's TransAtlantic Fan Fund, which will send him to Eastercon next March...

Lunarian Open House
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The Lunarians, aka the New York Science Fiction Society, is hosting an open house featuring a talk by John Grant and a slide show by Tom Kidd, on 16 September...

NSS-NYC to see In the Shadow of the Moon
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The New York chapter of the National Space Society will have a talk about the new film In the Shadow of the Moon. Attendees will then head to a nearby theater to see it, and then...

2009 WorldCon to Montreal
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Anticipation, the Montreal 2009 WorldCon bid, defeated Kansas City in 2009...

Browncoat Ball 3 Registration Deadline Nears
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Fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly will gather in Philadelphia in late September for the third Browncoat Ball...

Science Fiction Awards Watch is another new web site
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Cheryl Morgan and Kevin Standlee have teamed up to launch Science Fiction Awards Watch, which they hope will be the source for information about and discussion/debate of, well...

TAFF Voting Now Open: Send a Fan to Eastercon
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The Trans Atlantic Fan Fund sends a fan across the ocean to increase communication with fans in other countries. Voting for this year's fund, which will send a North American to Eastercon, is now open...

Dress Like a Dalek; a Record Attempt
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The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, England, is sponsoring a world-record breaking attempt to gather the most people dressed as Daleks, and is looking for participants...

First Fandom, Golden Duck, and Sidewise award winners
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Archon/TuckerCon/NASFiC played host to several award cermonies, including the First Fandom Awards, the Golden Duck Awards for children's sf, and the Sidewise Awards for alternate history. The winners were...

Call for Thoughts of WisCon 31
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Aqueduct Press will be publishing The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 2, expanding on some of the discussions at the convention. Editors L. Timmel Duchamp and Eileen Gunn are looking for...

Author Karl Schroeder Seeking "Virga" RPGers
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Author Karl Schroeder is looking for role-playing gamers who are creating scenarios based on his world "Virga." Not to stop them, but because he wants to play...
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