Updated
May 12, 2008
What's New Pacific Fen Spotlight @ YouTube - this is an excellent site with videos about the fannish scene in the northwest created with the excellent skills of Jim Granger. And I would add this Jim Granger has informed that he has an even more appropriate compilation site found at that really is the true central site Reading and Signing Announced by David Levine The following was reported on the Orycon mailing list by David Levine. If you are in the area you might be interested in attending his reading: David Levine will be reading from and
signing his first collection of short stories, "Space
Magic," at Powell's
Books at Cedar Hills
Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, )
on May 14, 2008 at 7pm. You can check the cover art
by visiting
Sfnorthwest.org or Northwest Science Fiction Resources has been a well loved task of mine for ten years and more and periodically I come to the conclusion that it is time to update and modify this site to take advantage of new technologies and to broaden the umbrella under which the various forms of northwest fandom find their home. You can look forward in the coming year to a new look, new content, new audio and video and new forms of discussion and interativity. Feel free to contact me with suggestions and criticisms. With this heads up I do plead a mild mea culpa in that personal responsibilities have kept me away for a sizable chunk of time. Those personal sidesteps are resolved and we will see on how things shake out in terms of what Northwest Science Fiction Resources will be morphing into in 2008 and 2009. Stay tuned. At the very least in the immediate future, there will be a more timely updates of the con page in particular and other pages in general. Have already updated the listing for Norwescon, Rainfurrest which I somehow missed and more. I have as a goal to transform sfnorthwest by the beginning of summer 2008, using flash video, interactivity, a better approach to updating the RSS feed, AJAX and other elements for your pleasure and mine. In particular I plan to turn this web presence into a standards compliant site that moves as much as possible away from tables and towards using CSS, XML and more. Stay tuned and check back. It is also in the infant stages but I plan to start a blog as part of sfnorthwest discussing what I am doing and hopefully getting feedback on what people would like to see besides being a little bit more speedy about updating suggested content on the site. Please note the Suggest a Site button and make use of it :-) Jack Beslanwitch |
Northwest Conventions The cons or other major fannish events coming in the near future (part of what can be found on the Northwest Cons page and with more details about
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