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The Baltimore Science Fiction Society has announced (via
File 770) its slate of six finalists for the annual Compton Crook Award, which honors the best genre work from a debut author.
The award was first established by the BSFS in 1983, and is handed out during the society’s annual convention, Balticon, the Maryland Regional Science Fiction Convention. The award was established to honor fantasy author Stephen Tall, who wrote under the name Compton Crook.
Here are this year’s finalists:
Architects of Memory by Karen Osbourne
Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis
Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Docile by K.M Szpara
Conservative state lawmakers clash with public colleges, again.
Jon Krause for The Chronicle
Welcome to the rodeo. It s the classic duel between state lawmakers and public colleges. You may have seen the show before.
This time, conservative lawmakers in some states are clashing with institutions over how to teach social-justice issues and privilege. In the backdrop of this face-off, Republicans and Democrats remain divided on how they perceive higher education. Student protests aren t drawing the same attention that they did four years ago, maybe because the coronavirus pandemic has sent most campuses online. Instead, lawmakers are clashing over how colleges teach and remember history. And public colleges, regulated and funded in part by state legislatures, are torn between wrangling or pacifying the big bull (state lawmakers, if you re following the metaphor), given the pandemic and the recession.
This story is part of a group of stories called 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. In honor of the enduring classics, we re exploring every aspect of Peter Jackson s trilogy, from JRR Tolkien s source material to the best scenes and moments, along with the continued influence of Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and Return of the King on modern pop culture.
One does not simply claim that
The Lord of the Rings “contains multitudes” and leave it at that. There’s more than enough heart, drama, and spectacle (not to mention meme-fodder regarding those ubiquitous walking sequences and Eagle-sized controversies) to appease any casual fan. But for those of us who identify as J.R.R. Tolkien purists, our relationship with Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens’ three-part adaptation could best be described as…