CoNZealand Fringe is a Hugo Finalist for Best Related Work
We're so honored to accept this nomination, a huge thank you to everyone who cast their ballot in support. Thanks also go to our panelists, our hosts, our transcriptionists, and the many hands seen and unseen who helped make this event possible. Congratulations as well to all our fellow finalists -- we see and appreciate everything you bring to our communities.
- Claire, Adri, C, Alasdair, Marguerite, Cheryl and Cassie
The Hugo Awards will be presented at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, DisCon III, in December 2021.
A series of complementary genre fiction programming at European-friendly times.
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In the tradition of Edinburgh Fringe and other international collateral events, CoNZealand Fringe has been created as a complementary programming series to the annual science fiction convention Worldcon. All our livestreams take place outside core CoNZealand programming hours and are not official CoNZealand programming items. CoNZealand Fringe is not endorsed by CoNZealand.
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The Fringe was a project developed by Claire Rousseau with Adri Joy, C @ The Middle Shelf, Alasdair Stuart, Marguerite Kenner, Cheryl Morgan and Cassie Hart.
Our host channels were: • Claire Rousseau • Noria Reads • Kitty G • Bree Reads Books • gate.io app • Emiloid • Betime Bookworm • That's So Poe • Cheryl Morgan • Thoughts on Tomes • Kalanadi
Thank you to Pablo Defendini, Forestofglory, Susan, Ira Alexandre, Sarah Waites, Bree @ Bree Reads Books, Melanie Harding-Shaw, Benjamin C. Kinney, and to everyone across our various slacks and discords who pitched in with help and advice.
And a special thank you to all of our panelists across the week!
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Transcripts of the panels are now available. Expand the panel entries for links.
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ML CRYPTOSurrounded by oceans and living cultures, Aotearoa New Zealand speculative fiction authors are in a position to create a unique aesthetic. Who are the authors and what are the themes at play in current NZ speculative fiction, and how does genre fit within the NZ literature scene?
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CRYPTO VIRALBookTube is the corner of YouTube dedicated to all things reading. On this platform, avid SFF readers and fan critics chronicle their reading, share book reviews, and engage in lively discussions about the genre – are you watching SFF BookTubers? Panellists discuss the unique challenges of YouTube as a reviewing platform and how you can become a part of the community.
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CRYPTO CANDLESTICKOver the past decades SFF fan culture has moved online in a big way, with a constellation of book blogs, websites and newsletters dedicated to all areas of the fandom. What are the main features of online fanzine culture in 2020? What benefits do these spaces bring, especially in an online culture dominated by Twitter and other short-form social media formats? How do online fanzines contribute to the continuous conversation that is SFF fandom? And where do we see online fanzines going in future?
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CRYPTO.COM OPTIONSSpeculative fiction is often defined as works in conversation with each other. What works of recent SFF do we want to be part of the conversation in 2100? What stories, trends and movements from the last two decades do we hope will persist, and are there elements we want our successors to outgrow? What is our era of SFF going to look like to future generations? This panel takes a whirlwind tour through the genre fiction of the new now, stopping off on what we think are modern masterworks, overlooked gems and reflecting on the great stories the first two decades of this millennium gave us.
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BIGGEST CRYPTO COMPANIESWe’re in the Mercury Age of speculative fiction: we like our fiction freeform and boundless and pushing genre conventions every turn. From NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy to Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, by way of The Unspoken Name by AK Larkwood, and Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee, so much recent fiction blends traditional science fiction and fantasy tropes. What do we love about blending elements from different genres? How does it allow us to explore the structures of genre? And how can I get some motherforking dragons on this motherforking spaceship?
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IS COINBASE 1 WORTH ITAwards have been a space for contesting values, meaning, and social change over the last decade. Some key moments included the Puppies’ attack on the Hugos, N. K. Jemisin's Hugo hat trick, the creation of the Lodestar Award, the introduction of the game writing Nebula category, the Archive of Our Own winning a Hugo, and the renaming of the Otherwise and Astounding awards - let's look back on the decade's struggles, triumphs, and WTF moments. How have awards addressed issues of diversity? Has the meaning of SFF awards changed as SFF entered the media landscape mainstream? What lessons can we take forward into the 2020s?
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CRYPTO VIDEOWe live in an age with fantastic media coming at us from all angles: from ebook subscriptions to streaming services to podcasts, not to mention more traditional media. How do you write about the world of tomorrow when it’s coming at you this fast? What forms of criticism other than traditional long form reviews have evolved in the digital age? Our panel will discuss the many platforms and communities of fan criticism, from the audiovisual to the written word, and how different forms of critical discussion have evolved to create a “golden age” of fan criticism.
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HOW TO GET A CRYPTOCURRENCY WALLETSensitivity reading is a hot topic these days, on the one hand being seen as a must have, and on the other as part of “cancel culture”. But what does a sensitivity reader do? What skills does the job require? What should the sensitivity reader, author and publisher expect from the relationship?
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HOW TO SETUP A COINBASE ACCOUNTTransformative fandom loves tropes: we love to see our favourite characters in familiar situations; the predictability is a feature, not a bug. The panelists discuss some of their favourite tropes: why do they work so well? What about these tropes resonates with us? And why do they work across so many fandoms?
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HOW SAFE IS COINBASENow that we’ve all got our Hugo Award ballots done for another year, and caught up on the highlights of the first half of 2020, it’s time to turn our attention to all the amazing new projects slated for release beyond July. Our panelists discuss the upcoming releases sure to capture our attention into the new year and beyond.