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This Shared Dream author Kathleen Ann Goonan has passed away at the age of of 68, reports
Locus Magazine. A prolific author of short stories, Goonan was best known for her musically-inclined science fiction, as well as her focus on nanotechnology and biology in her works.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1952, Goonan would later grow up in Hawaii, attend Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and eventually open a Montessori school in Knoxville, Tennessee. She returned to Clarion as an instructor in 2003, and in 2010, she began teaching at Georgia Tech as a visiting professor.
In addition to a career as an educator, Goonan set her sights on science fiction, attending Clarion West in 1988, and publishing her debut science fiction short story in
Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Arley Sorg
If you Google “author with most Hugo awards” the answer Google pushes on you is that Robert A. Heinlein won four Hugo awards in his lifetime for Best Novel. Not counting retroactive awards, his last win was in 1967. If you squint you will see another result: Lois McMaster Bujold, four wins for Best Novel with overall sixteen Hugo nominations and seven wins. You have to pay attention to find Connie Willis, despite the fact that the correct answer to the question is actually “Connie Willis”:
eleven Hugo Award wins and
twenty-four fiction nominations.
Connie Willis was born in Denver, CO. She earned a BA in English and elementary education from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, in 1967, and taught elementary and junior high school from 1967–1981. Her first SF story was published by
THE NEXT GENERATION. James Davis Nicoll’s
Young People Read Old SFF panel took a look at “’No Trading Voyage’ by Doris Pitkin Buck”. What did they think of this 1963 poem?
This month’s entry is from Doris Pitkin Buck, a Science Fiction Writers of America founder. Buck was mainly associated with
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which for various stupid reason was not a magazine I followed closely back in the day. Accordingly, I was not familiar with her work when I encountered this example of it way, way back in 2019. I see I carefully side-stepped my issues with poetry in my review. Let’s see what my Young People made of her poem.
FOR THE WINNERS. Joy Alyssa Day posted a photo of this year’s Chesley Award.
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13. On April 13, 1970, the Apollo 13’s lunar landing was aborted in what would become a historic mission. The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down on April 17, 1970.
It’s a beautiful piece, 4″ wide, 12″ deep and about 4″ tall. Water is sculpted fused glass with a blown glass Apollo Capsule attached. Capsule is engraved and painted for the doors and windows.
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…Conrunning is a hard, sometimes thankless task. Most of the time people don’t know who does what unless they’re looking to complain. Most people don’t know that a lot of fan-run cons are run by volunteers, not paid workers.