Corflu news and more zines

Message from Nic Farey:

It’s award season!

Attached is The Incompleat Register 2022, the voters’ guide and pro forma ballot for the 2023 FAAn awards, fanzine fandom’s only dedicated honors, and voting is thus open.

The voting deadline is midnight (Pacific time) Friday March 10 2023, and ballots must be received by then (please note this if you’re sending by snail mail). Your own name and contact details should also be clearly supplied.

The awards will be announced at Corflu Craic in Belfast, Northern Ireland on April 2 2023.

Voting is open to anyone with an interest in fanzines, no memberships of anything are required.

Publicity is welcomed. Feel free to share and distribute this as far and wide as you like.

Nic Farey
(Current FAAn Awards administrator)

 

The following zines have been received and uploaded to our website:

ThisHere60 Reduced

Alex126

ObdurateEye23

Posted to efanzines:

  • Added today at https://efanzines.com are some of the final issues of 2022, and the first issue of 2023.
  • Opuntia #541, edited by Dale Speirs (2023)
  • Alan White’s Pixel Dreams (2022)
  • Nic Farey’s This Here…#60
  • Journey Planet #68 and #69, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia et al
  • Garth Spencer’s The Obdurate Eye #23
  • Christopher J. Garcia’s The Drink Tank #443Bill

 

Solar explosion now a dangerous sunspot

On the 4th of January there was a Class X explosion on the farside of the sun. Now it is turning toward Earth, and has already caused shortwave radio blackouts. We might see some Aurora activity. CPL
Space Weather News for Jan 6, 2023
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https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: A large and potentially dangerous sunspot is turning toward Earth. This morning (Jan. 6th at 0057 UT) it unleashed an X-class solar flare and caused a shortwave radio blackout over the South Pacific Ocean. Given the size and apparent complexity of the active region, there’s a good chance the explosions will continue in the days ahead.  Full story @ Spaceweather.com

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Above: An X1.2-class solar flare on Jan. 6, 2023, recorded by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Space Weather News for Jan 4, 2023
https://spaceweather.com
https://www.spaceweatheralerts.com

SIGNIFICANT FARSIDE EXPLOSION: A powerful explosion rocked the farside of the sun yesterday, hurling a bright CME over the edge of the solar disk. It may have been an X-class event. Helioseismic echoes suggest that the source of the blast is just behind the sun’s southeastern limb and could turn to face Earth later this week. Full story @ Spaceweather.com

Instant solar flare alerts: Sign up for Space Weather Alerts to receive instant text messages when strong solar flares are underway.

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Above: A bright CME emerges from the farside of the sun on Jan. 3rd. Credit: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)