Angela Challis has announced that Shadowed Realms will close with the forthcoming bumper issue to be its last. Shadowed Realms
is a beautifully presented website specialising in dark “flash” fiction and has published work by Rob Hood, Deb Biancotti, K.J. Bishop, Stephen Dedman, Poppy Z. Brite, and many, many others. The good news is that Angela [...]

His Holiness, Pope John XX
St Kopernik Cathedral, Albertus Magnus Square, Frombork
Easter Sunday 2007
My dear Brothers and Sisters,
Christus resurrexit! Christ is risen.
Welcome to all who have made the journey to Frombork to share with us this wonderful day. We come from all the continents of Earth. From Australia, the two Americas, from Africa and Asia, [...]

The Natcon website has released the shortlist for this year’s Ditmar Awards. Congratulations to all nominees and may the artists most bristling with nanoweaponry win.
Thx to Cat Sparks for the link. Full list (with corrections and better formatting) after the break.

Today is Samuel Delaney’s 65th birthday (yep, it’s true). It’s also the Feast Day for St Hugh of Grenoble and, for you Roman pagan revivalists, Veneralia (please wear a condom). On such an auspicious day, I thought it would be a good time to celebrate several projects (by other people, I’m afraid) that I am [...]

Tribalism in action

Nothing illustrates the tribalism of religion better than the upswelling of anger directed at Richard Dawkins in response to The God Delusion. Now let’s get one thing straight from the start: I disagree with Dawkins in his broadside on religion. While I agree with many of his individual arguments, the whole he has [...]