A couple of months ago I came to the sudden realisation that, for this gay lad, fantasy and religion are one and the same thing. Not in the sense, of course, that both refer to things that don’t exist, but rather in that both have always filled me with the same feeling – a strange […]
A Realm of Hope and Yearning: Queer Fantasy and Religion Read More »
When I started writing, in about 2013, I used a pen name and wrote erotica. At the time, I lived in the same town in which I’d grown up, and where I played by the only rules I knew: a heterosexual cis-woman in a monogamous relationship. Through learning my craft, widening my reading, and meeting
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Thanks to Sean Guynes and Keren Omry, I’m writing a short book of around 30,000 words on Joanna Russ’s The Female Man for their new series, Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Hopefully it will be published in 2023. I’ve been fascinated by The Female Man since I read it some time in my teens. Russ
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I grew up isolated and very much in the closet – an industrial and shipbuilding town down the river from Glasgow, as conservative and homophobic as such places always are, and a Catholic family with its institutional abhorrence of sex and the body, let alone sexuality or gender diversity. All the same it was a
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It’s 2021. It’s been over half a century since the year we landed on the moon and threw the first brick at Stonewall and we still haven’t seen an openly queer superhero on the big screen. We have only recently seen science fiction and fantasy novels and stories begin to reflect the diversity of their
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The bid team for Glasgow in 2024 Worldcon are very enthusiastic about Sci-Fi and Fantasy books. We love to share this passion with our fans and supporters. So we are inviting you to join us for some informal Book Club discussions. We plan to run these Book Clubs at conventions over the next while, online
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My name is Luke Shelton and I have been a fan of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien for a long time. I started as a young reader of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and after University I just kept coming back to the books. That’s the main reason why I chose to
Hope and Courage: Tolkien Reading Day 25th March 2021 Read More »
The Armadillo Auditorium is part of the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. If we win the bid to host Worldcon in 2024, this is where we would hold large events, such as the Hugo Awards Ceremony. It did not get its name by accident … So, naturally, we’ve had armadillos on our minds lately.
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Glasgow in 2024 has been thinking about the crowning glory of SFF fandom. Clearly, it is its fans! But what is it that makes SFF fans, Worldcon fans, so amazing? There are so many qualities to choose from including, but not limited to: Passionate; Imaginative; Enthusiastic Dedicated; Dynamic; Diverse Creative; Colourful; Crafty Welcoming; Hopeful; Tenacious
Crowning the Cons – Glasgow Giveaway Read More »
In the last few months we have seen extraordinary changes in the world around us. However, further change is needed, necessary, and overdue. For Glasgow in 2024, we believe that Black Lives Matter. We believe that trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary and genderqueer people are non-binary and genderqueer respectively. Our mission for
Glasgow in 2024 Supports Black Lives Matter and Trans Lives Matter Read More »
