Best Science Fiction Novel: Artemis by Andy Weir Best Fantasy Novel (Including Paranormal): Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson Best Young Adult/Middle Grade Novel: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel: A Call to Vengeance by David Weber, Timothy Zahn, and Thomas Pope Best Alternate History Novel: Uncharted by Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt Best Media Tie-In… Read more →
Any Killjoys fan knows two things: The Warrant is All, and keep your hands off John Jaqobis or Lucy will electrocute you. That didn’t keep the crowd from showing Aaron Ashmore (Jaqobis) and Tamsen McDonough (Lucy) all the love at the “Killjoys Cast: Upgrades of Awesome” panel Sunday afternoon in the Hilton Grand West ballroom. It was clear that Ashmore… Read more →
Twenty-five years ago Babylon 5 debuted as our “last, best hope for peace.” For an entire generation, Delenn, Garibaldi, Bester, G’Kar, Lando, and many more came into our homes weekly. They taught us how to get along, how to look past differences and find common ground, how to find peace, and how to kick butt. Sadly, we have lost too… Read more →
The winner of the 2018 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction is “Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, September 2017). The award is for original speculative short fiction stories no longer than 20,000 words published for the first time in the English language in the previous year. It is named in memory of… Read more →
This is the fourth year the Georgia Philharmonic, conducted by John Morrison, performed at Dragon Con. Each year, there has always been a level of barely-contained excitement to the anticipation of the arrangement that will be performed. Each year, we think that it can’t get any better. Each year we are wrong. It’s always better. This year was no exception. The Hyatt Centennial was filled… Read more →
Moderator Tony Barletta and artists George Perez and Joe Benitez made up the “Teen Titans Through the Years panel” on Friday afternoon in the Hyatt. Barletta opened the discussion by noting that there was a Teen Titans series in the 1960s featuring sidekicks of DC lead heroes. The series reboot in the 1980s featured Robin, Wonder Girl, and Kid Flash… Read more →
“There seems to be a lot of tension in sci-fi between the idea of space and the idea of God,” mused panelist Melayne Seahawk at the beginning of “Supernatural and Religious Elements in Military Sci-Fi” on Saturday afternoon in Westin Chastain EF. This was the heart of a deep but entertaining conversation about the ways science fiction TV shows use… Read more →
James Minz was the moderator for this panel Sunday morning at 11:30AM in the Hyatt. Todd McCaffery, the son of Ann McCaffery, and Jody Lynn Nye, the “Pernographer,” reminisced on Anne, her works, and her viewpoints on Pern. Anne McCaffery always considered Pern to be a Science Fiction genre, not Fantasy. Todd told the story that since there were dragons,… Read more →
