Gay SF awards presented
The annual Gaylactic Network awards, The Gaylactic Spectrum Awards were announced in September 1st at the World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California. The awards were created recently to honour SF works which feature positive representations of gay characters, themes and issues.
The winners were as follows:
- Best Novel
- The Song of the Earth by Hugh Nissenson
- Best Short Fiction
- “Kindred” by Alexis Glynn Latner
- Best Other Work
- Bending the Landscape: Horror, Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, eds.
- Gaylactic Spectrum Awards Hall of Fame
- Alpha Flight, issue No. 106, by Marvel Comics
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
- The Female Man by Joanna Russ
- Was by Geoff Ryman
Captain's Log -
Lunar visitors lost on Earth!
NASA has reported that hundreds of visitors to the Moon are missing - they could literally be living next door to you! Dr. Tony Phillips from NASA has reported that the agency is conducting a world-wide search to find trees that have now grown from seeds that were taken to the Moon aboard Apollo 14 by astronaut Stuart Roosa in 1971. These trees will ultimately prove to be the longest surviving astronauts from the Apollo missions!
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Buffy and Fred marry
Picture this....Buffy the Vampire slayer and blonde headed square Fred from Scooby Doo tying the knot. Well they have! Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar, 25, and Scooby Doo star Freddie Prinze Jr., 26, tied the knot over the first weekend in September, the Labor Day holiday in the US.
I Robot for big screen?
Director Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City, Garage Days) is adapting Isaac Asimov’s classic I, Robot for the big screen, and he recently advertised over the Internet for an actor to play the part of the robot. Shooting is reportedly planned for between November 2002 to mid 2003 in N.S.W., Victoria and Queensland.
Farscape grounded!!
Sydney produced Sci-fi Phenonmenon has been dropped by the Sci-fi Channel, as announced by star Ben Browder and creator Davd Kemper. The Sci-fi Channel has cited rising production costs between seasons 3 & 4, and a drop in audience thoughout season 4, as the main reasons. Plans to make a shortened 13 ep season also failed to prove viable, so it looks like we will see no more of the crew of Moya after an abrupt end to season 4.
Award
Locus Magazine reports that Lawrence Schimel was a winner of a 2002 Rhysling Award (for works of SF and fantasy poetry). His poem, "How To Make A Human", won in the "Long Poem" category. Long-time members of Spaced Out will remember meeting Lawrence at our functions during Worldcon 1999.
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