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Rob Hansen's new, improved "Fan Stuff" web site
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Rob Hansen has launched his "new, bigger' improved Fan Stuff" web site, talking about many things fannish from a British point of view...

Tuckerization auctions to help fund TAFF
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Seven Tuckerizations are currently up for auction, with the proceeds going to fund the TransAtlantic Fan Fund. Participating authors include Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Julie Czerneda, Cory Doctorow, Nalo Hopkinson, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Charlie Strauss...

Jeff Carlson's Super Fan, in Plague Year cosplay
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Jeff Carlson's Plague Year series has inspired fandom, including the costumed Brian C....

TAFF 2010 nominations now open
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The 2010 TransAtlantic Fan Fund, which will send a North American fan to London for the 2010 Eastercon, is now open for nominations. Deadline is 4 October...

GUFF 2010 nominations now open
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Nominations for the Going Under Fan Fund, which will send a European fan to next year's WorldCon in Australia, are now open...

Newly scanned fan photos from the 1930s on now available
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Andy Porter has scanned a bunch of old fan photos from the 1930s to the 1990s, and they're available on Flickr...

Laura Haywood-Cory calls for submissions to one-shot fanzine A Change of Heart
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Laura Hayood-Cory, who is recovering from heart trouble earlier in the year, is putting together a one-shot fanzine as a way to raise awareness about heart disease. She's soliciting submissions...

New directory of sf fan clubs in the making
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Heath Row is building a directory of sf fan clubs, and is looking for your help in finding them all...

TAFF winner: Steve Green
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Steve Green won this year's TransAtlantic Fan Fund, which will send him to WorldCon in Montreal this August...

Elliot Shorter Hospitalized Again
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Fan Elliot Shorter (aka "Master El of the Two Knives") has again been hospitalized in Rhode Island...

Forrest J Ackerman's collection to be auctioned off
News > Other Stuff
Los Angeles auction house Profiles in History will be auctioning off much of Forrest J Ackerman's collection of movie and sf memorabilia in late April...

More on the death of Realms of Fantasy
News > Magazines
Realms's Assistant Editor Douglas Cohen gives some more perspective on the departure of the magazine, and fans are forming groups to see if they can save it...

WorldCon announces Hugo base design winner and increasing membership rates
News > Organizations & Conferences
The 2009 World Science Fiction Convention has announced the winner of this year's Hugo Award Base Design Competition, and that membership rates will increase on 1 January 2009...

Moshe Feder forming sf/f/h cat discussion group
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Editor/fan/cat fancier Moshe Feder is forming an email discussion group for sf/f/h cat lovers...

Eleven Fans Donate Babylon 5 Mask to Museum of the Moving Image
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A group of 11 Babylon 5 fans, otherwise unconnected, were able to pool their resources to purchase and then donate a lifemask of Andreas Katsulas and a prop mask of G'Kar, his character...

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
News > Contests
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
News > Organizations & Conferences
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
News > Organizations
Denvention 3, this year's World Science Fiction Convention, is accepting bids from potential at-convention vendors of logo merchandise...

DUFF deadline approaching
News > Fandom
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
News > Film & Television
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...
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