Hugo-winner Sara Felix joins us once again for this issue about the Hugo trophy - the history, design, philosophy and so on!

I can now say I have won a Hugo and designed a Hugo Sara Felix 
Faith in the Hugos. Don’t Fret, It Can Be Fixed James Bacon 
Proposal for Hugo Award Torcon Three David Thayer 
Hugo Award Anecdotes Janice Gelb
Making Hugos an excerpt from the N4 Souvenir Book Peter Weston 
Yes… I design Hugos Chris Garcia
The MidAmericon II base Sara Felix 
Imagining a Textile-related Hugo Base Constanze Hofmann 
Three Hugo Bases That Never Were Steven H Silver 
On Hugo Base Design Vincent Docherty 
How I (sort-of) Designed a LEGO Hugo Base James Shields 

We close out 2022 with an issue dedicated to the hit Star Wars series Andor with John Coxon and Erin Underwood co-editing! 

Note: Chris still hasn't seen Andor. 

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Cover by Iain J. Clarke
Page 4 - Andor:  The Center of the Star Wars Storyverse by Erin Underwood
Page 7 - Andor Season 1 -  Putting faces to the Empire and a cause for rebellion by James Mason
Page 9 - ANDOR: Star Wars Finally Grows Up by Tony Peak
Page 12 - Andor Tote Bag by Alissa Wales
Page 13 - Andor: Real People and the Rebellion by Chelsea Mueller
Page 15 - Star Wars Storytelling Matures with Andor by R. B. Wood
Page 17 - Andor: Faced with Violence by Brenda Noiseux
Page 19 - Vive la résistance! by John C. Foster
 Page 21 - Based on by Peppard Saltine
Page 23 - We Always Knew There Was More to Star Wars by Carrie Vaughn
Page 27—Shaping the Conflict: The Ominous Geometry of Andor by Hannah Strom-Martin
Page 30—The Andorian by Michael Carroll
Page 31 - The Complexities of Revolution in Andor by Rich Horton
Page 35 - Droid Boy by Alexis & Kenneth Taylor-Butler
Page 39 - Andor -  a rebellion by James Bacon
Page 57 - Andor: An Awakening by Edward Lazellari
Page 61 - Less Fan Service of Better Storytelling? by John Coxon
Page 63  - Jack ‘Gunner’ McCarthy and Captain of Intelligence  Mary McGrath by James Bacon
Page 65 - Shadows of the British Empire by Dan Hartland
Page 67 - The Sounds of Andor by James Bacon
Page 71 - Instant Fanzine: Andor featuring Joelle Renstrom and Oghenechovwe Ekpeki
Page 75 - A Grown-up Galaxy Far, Far Away by Derek McCaw
Page 79 - Enditorial by James Bacon
Page 76—Artist Bios
 

 

Guest Editors - Amanda Wakaruk & Olav Rokne

Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson by Olav Rokne
The Roadmap to Drought by Victoria Paterson
The Lies They Will Tell You by Camestros Felapton
The Loaner by A. L. Yakimchuk
Where The World May Wind Up by Juan Sanmiguel
Songs of a Disposable Earth by Jason Sanford
Disco and the Rising Tide of Cli-Fi Paul Weimer
Ponderings by Victoria Carter
​Parasites in Peril by Collin Horn
Massive Moment for Cli-Fi by James Bacon
Apocalyptic Radio by Nicolas Pallaris
Choosing Van Gogh by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Things Fall Apart, It’s Scientific by Chris Garcia
Is Geoengineering by The New Denial? by Stephen Griffith & Marshall Boyd
Dwelling in the Anthropocene by Cora Buhlert
Blowing Up The Ministry For The Future by Gautam Bhatia

Alissa Wales joins James, Chris, and a whole bunch of amazing contributors for this look at Rogue One!

​Cover by Iain Clark
Page 3—Introductions by Alissa McKersie & Chris Garcia
Page 4—Creating this issue’s cover image by Iain Clark
Page 8—We Hear You… A Letter of Comment on Journey Planet 64 from Jerry Kaufman
Page 10 — On Rogue One by Alissa & Andrew Wales
Page 13—Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or a film the producers and marketing team felt you really needed to know was part of the Star Wars franchise, despite being more of a prequel to Star Wars: A New Hope than the actual prequels in terms of tone and story. By James Mason
Page 15—A Brief note on Rogue One by Keith Perrin
Page 16—Rogue One—Jyn’s war story. By James Bacon
Page 20—One Hermit’s Point of View by Mitchell Barnes
Page 21—Baze and Chirrut by David Ferguson
Page 22—Rogue 2 by Michael Carroll
Page 23—Rogue One by Ken Marsden
Page 25—A brief note (and amazing art) from Maria Ku
Page 26—Rogue One, what might have been by Peppard Saltine
Page 29—Bricking it for Rogue One by James Shields
Page 34—A Woman’s Place? By Phoenix
Page 38—Ann Gry, A fan who ran away from Corulag
Page 40—Rogue One The Comics by James Bacon
Page 42—It’s all in the ending by Noelle Ameijenda
Page 43—Saw Gerrera by James Bacon
Page 45—Rogue One Instant Fanzine
Will Sliney
Ruari Coleman
Victor D’Agostino II
Keith Burns
Bill Rudloff
Michael Shannon
Page 49—Enditorial by James Bacon