Month: June 2025

Newsletter June 2025: So Many Cosplay Opportunities!

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Masquerade registration is open, and we’ll have lots of other cosplay opportunities; site selection voting is open; it’s almost time for the business meeting to start; fan tables, dealers’ room, and art show participant lists are live; the Fringe schedule has added a few more activities; there will be no Chesley award at Worldcon this year; the Community Fund could use donations; the Film Festival has listed all of its films; there will be traffic construction impacting I-5 during Worldcon; KiddieCorp will be handling childcare; and we can use more volunteers; and another reminder of the business meeting schedule!

Fantastic Fiction: Science Fiction From Beyond the Iron Curtain: The Silent Star

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In 1960, when the Cold War was at its height, a remarkable science fiction film called The Silent Star was released in East Germany. It not only featured an international and multiracial crew on the first mission to Venus, but it also demonstrated that despite ideological differences, the East and West shared the same fears.

Fantastic Fiction: Jorge Luis Borges in 1962

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When Anglophone readers think of “magical realism,” they generally think of Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and other practitioners of this subgenre in Latin America during the mid-20th century. Borges, known for his brain-twisting, reality-bending stories, published two texts in English in 1962: Ficciones and Labyrinths.

Local Flavor: International District

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Looking for authentic Asian food? Head down to Seattle’s International District. Home to a wide range of restaurants and just a couple of stops south on the light rail from the convention center, this is the place to go for noodles, dumplings, and other Asian fare. The International District is also home to Uwajimaya, a massive Asian grocery store and Seattle institution for almost 100 years.