supergee | Entries tagged with fandom

Star Trek Fandom did two wonderful things: It greatly improved the balance of women to men in fandom (or maybe just the perception of it), and it introduced the idea that pop fiction (in textual and visual forms) wasn’t queer enough.

John Scalzi remembers the Sad Puppies

While 2020 has been a donald trump of a year in general, there have been a few lights in the darkness, and fanzine fandom, the subculture that probably saved my life, has produced two of them.

Fanzines were the internet before the internet, a way to have human interaction and discussion and sharing without having to go out in crowds. One of the best was Outworlds, which I discovered 45 years ago and eagerly joined in on. Now there is Outworlds 71, a giant last issue and retrospective. I am happy and proud to be a small part of it.

Fanzine fandom was never sure if it should be about science fiction or about itself. Fortunately, we had David Langford, who could write magnificently about both. Beachcombing is a collection of Dave at his best.

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Well-deserved fannish award to Janice Gelb & Stephen Boucher.

Thanx to File 770

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Fanfic as school [Atlantic]

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As I mentioned here a couple of days ago, Jeannette Ng took the occasion of winning the John W. Campbell Award to remind fandom of a few home truths about the award’s eponymous figure. Hilarity, or something, ensued. Mike Glyer, at File 770, has done his usual thorough job of reporting the kerfuffle, from the reasoned responses of John Scalzi and Cory Doctorow to Arvid Engholm’s curious theory that Ms. Ng violated the Codes of Conduct by molesting a ghost.

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Working on the Rusty Hevelin collection [Slate]

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Semiprozine Hugo wars redux [Twitter]

Thanx to File 770

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PZ Myers asks the right questions about “What’s wrong with Star Wars fandom.” [Pharyngula]

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Wandering amongst the fan platforms

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Jeanne Gomoll wins the Rotsler Award for fan art.

Thanx to File 770

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Reverse fan theories

Thanx to Tor.com.

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Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t have a cult. He has a fandom.

Thanx to Roz Kaveny & Farah Mendlesohn

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Fan is a tool-using animal.

Thanx to

andrewducker

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Interesting discussion of a medieval mystic as the founder of fanfic. (I believe a version was presented at the ICFA.) I like it, but there’s one thing I have to question:

The hermeneutics of suspicion is built on centuries of philosophical and pedagogical ideologies that separate body and mind, then rank the mind above the body. As feminist critics have pointed out, these are sexist ideologies, because they associate the mind, in all its rational dimensions, with men, and the body with women, effeminacy and femininity.

The second concept does not follow from the first.

Thanx to File 770