Planning to read the Hugo finalists novellas by @nghivo.bsky.social, @aliettedebodard.com, @premeemohamed.com, @tkingfisher.com, Sofia Samatar and Ray Nayler in the coming days and weeks. All look great, I think I'm in for a fantastic time! #scifi #worldcon #booksky
#worldcon
Gente del #Fediverso, necesito información. ¿Conocéis eventos similares a la #WorldCon o a la #ComicCon, pero centradas en idiomas, en linux, en videojuegos (genéricos, no enfocados en uno exclusivamente), etc.?
Doesn't it seem as if this page should have been updated since February, 2024?
https://www.worldcon.org/category/worldcon-bids/
Octothorpe 136 is now arriving! We finally have time to discuss Eastercon 2025 (Reconnect in Belfast) in more detail, and then we also discuss @seattlein2025, particularly the consultative votes. Listen here! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/136-when-do-you-not-want-to-talk-about-games/
Up early for the first #Dublin2029 day long open meeting. Looking forward to chatting with lots of fantastic volunteers and potential volunteers to push our #Worldcon bid forward!
This month's editorial is about the SF "canon," or rather how what was considered oh so important half a century ago is likely forgotten now. There are both upsides and downsides to this.
https://sffremembrance.com/2025/05/16/the-observatory-canonical-today-forgotten-tomorrow/
#sciencefiction #worldcon
Episode 134 is here! We discuss the recent @seattlein2025 controversy, and also read out some letters of comment from various listeners, before getting into the real meat of the podcast: roguelikes.
Listen here: https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/134-in-the-framework-of-linear-time/
#ScienceFiction #Podcast #SeattleWorldcon #Worldcon #Worldcon2025
@neve
Thanks Neve!
And there I am at the end of the first column!
I filled out all the paperwork, so I was pretty sure. Weirdly, Confluence is the one I'm least sure of. Balticon gave me 8 panels over 4 days plus the book launch. So excited about that!
@neve
Do I have any summer submission or publishing plans? Special marketing or promotion?
The upcoming book launch I've been mentioning for Permutations: A Well World Anthology at #Balticon is just around the corner Memorial Day weekend. I have a busy panel schedule.
I'm also headed to Confluence in Pittsburgh, and Worldcon later in the summer in Seattle. I hope to be on panels at both.
#writephant #SFConventions #WritingCommunity #Worldcon #WritersofMastodon
The full Hugo Award voter packet is 38 GB.
Out of that 21.6 GB is the file for Best Series category, because while some authors/publishers only submitted excerpts or single books for voters' consideration, Brandon Sanderson included all 5 1000+ page novels and *all the audiobooks* of those too.
This post by Erin Underwood on File770, about what's involved in a #Worldcon program, is fantastic: https://file770.com/op-ed-about-choosing-convention-program-participants/
This is still not my circus…
But I’ve been watching this year’s Worldcon drama unfold. Seattle used ChatGPT to vet program participants, based on three widely excoriated updates/apologies. Three folks on the WSFS/Hugo side of the convention (i.e. not the division that used ChatGPT) resigned. A number of program participants withdrew; so did a Lodestar nominee. Given the nature of convention drama, I expect we haven’t heard the end of Seattle shenanigans.
I think it’s interesting that Seattle seems shocked by the backlash it’s struggling to handle.1 There has been a lot of discussion about so-called AI within the writing community over the past couple years; it started even sooner among artists. While some of this discussion happens behind closed doors (e.g. members-only online spaces), it’s also been news in the genre and non-genre press. This is, in short, a big issue for many of the convention’s prospective participants and members.
This is not the only instance of a disconnect between convention runners and a segment of fandom (broadly defined). Codes of conduct may help, but there’s a long history of conventions being unwelcoming or dangerous; problems including sexual harassment and racist exclusion persist. The main difference with this particular misstep is that Seattle acted against the interests of a subset of fandom that the convention cannot easily afford to abandon. While conrunners may not feel the lack of potential Black members who never register (a far more fundamental and troubling issue, IMHO, than Seattle’s ChatGPT use), they will feel the lack of industry professionals. Marketing a convention involves participant names. Convention programming relies upon the donated time and effort of panelists and moderators. Seattle has unwittingly illustrated the need for conventions to decide who they are for, and to understand the priorities of those constituencies.
- While I don’t think Seattle has handled this well at all, I do appreciate that they have not thrown individual volunteers under the bus. This is an institutional failure and Seattle Worldcon 2025 absolutely deserves to be ratioed. Maybe there should be additional resignations and a more complete report for transparency purposes, but nothing would be served by adding volunteer names to this week’s firestorm. ↩︎
Détails sur l'usage de ChatGPT dans certains processus du choix des intervenants lors des conférence du prochains #WorldCon
https://file770.com/seattle-worldcon-2025-tells-how-chatgpt-was-used/
Seattle Worldcon 2025 Tells How ChatGPT Was Used in Panelist Selection Process - https://file770.com/seattle-worldcon-2025-tells-how-chatgpt-was-used/
#WorldCon #Seattle2025 #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Hugos #ChatGPT
Chengdu rigging the Hugo Awards has recalibrated my sense of what is a big deal at Worldcon to the extent that I am controversially a bit "Whatevs" about the Seattle generative AI flap. And I write as someone who is a committed enemy of generative AI.
WorldCon followup: A few days after posting an explanation of ChatGPT use they posted a followup saying the explanation was not complete.
https://seattlein2025.org/2025/05/02/apology-and-response-from-chair/
#worldcon #chatgpt #hugos #ai #-
ChatGPT for WorldCon: Controversy over the folks putting on the scifi convention using ChatGPT like a search engine. Their use of it seems 100% reasonable to me.
https://file770.com/responding-to-controversy-seattle-worldcon/
#worldcon #chatgpt #hugos #ai #-
Seattle Worldcon 2025 Hugo Administrators and WSFS Division Head Resign - https://file770.com/seattle-worldcon-2025-hugo-administrators-and-wsfs-division-head-resign/
Polémique sur l'usage de #LLMs dans le processus de nomination aux #Hugo awards : démissions de protestation
https://file770.com/seattle-worldcon-2025-hugo-administrators-and-wsfs-division-head-resign/
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