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Top choice of the week has to go to Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy), a live oratorio based on The Life of Brian. And yes, most of the surviving Pythons are there for the event. So far I have only seen the trailer (at the bottom of this post), but it is [...]

The Hugo Award nominees for this year have been announced, and you can find the full list at Tor Dot Com. You can also find links there to read a number of the stories online, including Charles Stross’s Overtime, another tale of the Laundry that so far has only been published online.

If you haven’t put your votes in yet, you only have a bit over a day to put in for your favorites for the Locus Awards. If you are not familiar, Locus Magazine is the closest thing the science fiction publishing community has to a professional trade magazine. Voting closes April 1st. Just opened up [...]

If you were wondering if you were living in the future, I can assure you that you are. Here is still more evidence; an astronaut is tweeting his space pictures using TwitPic’s. Or perhaps the fact there are two Sci-Fi movies up for Best Picture this year? John Scalzi has some good thought on this [...]

Sci-Fi London is holding their Oktoberfest Film Festival this weekend! It kicks off on Friday with the Royal Observatory Greenwich (home of Greenwich Mean Time) unveiling the Sci-Fi Universe planetarium program for the first time anywhere. There will also be Aliens, Anime, and MST3K all-night film marathons and much more. Of course, the 53rd BFI [...]

There is a new Sci-Fi Party Line over at Fancy Fembot’s site for your listening pleasure, containing both spoilers and the undead. While I am only interested in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Anime movies, a lot of the best ones come from other countries. Which means I have to agree when the Euro-Indi-Festival Teams complain that the Academy [...]

The Film Fest entries grew too large to include with this post, so they got their own posting on Tuesday. I think I just may make that their regular posting day.
On the Convention front, Palmdale, CA has Ani-Magic, an Anime Con this weekend. In Salt Lake City Anime Banzai will also be running games, cosplay, [...]

The number of Film Festivals grew this week, or perhaps I am just getting better at finding them. So for at least this week, I am breaking them out of the Wednesday post and giving them a night of their own.
The 53rd BFI London Film Festival runs from October 14th to the 29th, and includes [...]

Once more, the team from the Annals of Improbable Research have handed out another year’s Ig Nobel Prizes. From the Gas Mask Bra to Tequila Diamonds, this years winners share a trait in common with each other and all previous winners. First they make you laugh… and then they make you think (mostly about how [...]

The Ignatz Awards were handed out this weekend, at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD. The Guest of Honor for the event was Gahan Wilson, and the actual physical Awards will be handed out next Saturday at the conclusion of the expo.