Greetings from Worcester. With this mailing:

An issue of The N3F Review of Books Incorporating Pro Bono

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Oh. the near-complete list of Laureate Award nominees. I anticipate having a couple of months to discuss these before we advance to a vote.

Laureate Award Nominations To Date

Best Novel:
The Other Side Of Night by Adam Hamdy
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
The Janus File by David Weber and Jacob Holo
Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ashes of Man by Christopher Ruocchio

Best Shorter Work or Anthology:
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Return to Glory by Jack McDevitt
The Moonday Letters by Emmi Itaranta
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
Stellar Instinct by Jonathan Nevair

Best anime/comic book/graphic novel:
Monstress by Marjorie Lie & Sana Takeda
New Think Volume 1.0 an anthology
Mindset by Zack Kaplan and John J. Peterson

Best anime: Chainsaw Man

Best manga:
EVOL by Atsushi Kaneko
Mindset

Best Fan Writer :
John Thiel

Martin Lock

Robin Rose Graves, the Book Wormhole

Best fan editor:
Jefferson Swycaffer
George Phillies
Gideon Marcus

Best Book Editor:
Lisa Kaits
Toni Weisskopf

Best fan website:
SciFi4Me from Jason Hunt and Mindy Hunt
Fanac.org and the Fancyclopedia from Joe Siclari, Edie Stern, and Mark Olson
efanzines.com from Bill Burns
Galactic Journey

Best Non-N3F Fanzine:
Portable Storage from William Beeding
Beam from Nic Farey and Ulrika O’Brien
Pablo Lennis
Simultaneous Times Newsletter

Best N3F Fanzine:
Eldritch Science
Tightbeam
Ionisphere

Best Fan Artist:
Brad Foster
Alan White
Jose Sanchez

Best Book Editor:
Lisa Kaits
Toni Weisskopf

Best Pro Artist:
Stephen Youll
Jim Burns
Austin Arthur Hart

Best Television Show, Film, or Video:
Star Wars : Mandalorian
Heath Row’s productions
Avenue 5

Best None Of The Above:
Best SF Poet, Michael Butterworth

The effort by Manuscript Press (Rick Norwood) and aruffo.com (I dunno the company name or the person responsible) for publishing the series of trade paperbacks that are reprinting the entire run of the Alley Oop daily comic strip beginning with the very first V.T. Hamlin strip and running all the way to the end of the 20th century. This is a monumental effort, making available a wonderful comic strip that is clearly science fiction/fantasy and has been recognized as one of the most important comics strips ever published. The original Comic Book Achievement Awards created by comic book fandom in the early 1960s were named the Alley Awards, with a pic/statue of Alley Oop as the symbol. Finally, a chance to read everything, the entire run, all shot from the original syndicate stats, published in affordable format. This deserves much wider recognition, and an award or two on its own.

Best Podcast – Simultaneous Times