(source: starwarsfanworks.com)

Ladies and gentlemen, start your voting!

As in previous years, Star Wars Fanworks is holding its annual Star Wars Fan Audio Awards to recognize outstanding work in the genre in the most recent broadcast year. This year, of course, voting is being carried out to acknowledge projects released during 2006.

Categories have been slightly narrowed down since last year's awards, but voting is being carried out in a similar fashion. Those wishing to participate can do so in two ways, but must meet one of two qualifications.

Qualifications: As previously determined during discussions with the community and the approval thereof, anyone voting in the 2007 awards must either be (a) a registered member of GalacticSenate.com since no later than December 1, 2006, or (b) a member of the Star Wars fan audio creative community (someone who has been an active participant in the genre, either by being a creator, host, mixer, voice actor, or other "creative talent").

Voting Methods: Those wishing to vote should head to the Star Wars Fanworks message board over at GalacticSenate.com (using the link on the top right column of the Fanworks main page). There, you will find a thread at the top of the board that includes a few notes on rules/procedures and complete lists of all of the eligible nominees for each award category. Voters can then place their votes by either (a) sending a Private Message to forum member "Nathan Butler" (the starter of the voting thread) or (b) sending an email to "nathan@starwarsfanworks.com" so that Fanworks can tally your votes.

Winners will be announced in a special episode of Star Wars and Beyond a few weeks after voting ends on January 14.

So, what are you waiting for? Go show your support for the genre and your favorites in the 2007 Star Wars Fanworks Fan Audio Awards.

starwarsfanworks.com

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(source: stillflying.net date: 12/27/06)
Greetings, folks! Today is a very special day for the crew over at www.stillflying.net. Our newest episode, “Confluence,” airs today (head on over to the site and read it!), but this is also the one year anniversary of our first episode.
Yep, we’ve been flying hard for a year. With 21 episodes under our collective belts, we’ve now got more than a THOUSAND pages of Firefly script to share with y’all! We hope that those of you who haven’t been along for the ride will stop by and pay a visit.
For those of you who are not familiar with our project, Still Flying is a fan-based site dedicated to a "virtual continuation" of Joss Whedon's "Firefly" in the form of scripts of additional episodes. We've rounded out Season One, completing it with seven new episodes (including a season finale based on "Serenity: Those Left Behind" from Dark Horse Comics).
Season Two is dedicated to exploring the question, "What would things have been like if Joss Whedon had been able to tell the story of Serenity in 22 episodes rather than 2 hours?" Our story will take you to most of the same places the movie does, but the path along the way will be a little different, and a lot longer. With 14 of Season Two’s 22 episodes behind us, we’ve seen some old friends and more than a few old enemies. We can't promise that we'll entertain you as much as Mister Whedon would have, but you should know that this project has been put together by those who care about the show, and we're taking this bird up out of love.
"Here's how it might have been..."
www.stillflying.net.

Posted by RichSigfrit - RotO at 11:23 AM | Forums | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

What do little geeks grow up to be?  Big geeks.  This is Christopher Knight.  Christopher is a huge fan of fanfilms.  So he made one.  He didn't plan on making money off of his fanfilm, he had a slightly different opinion.  He was hoping to garner votes.  Christopher Knight was in the local race for the Rockingham County Board of Education.  I'm all for using creative means to get your point across.  This site exists to promote exactly that.  But sadly, the rest of the world didn't see a young man with dreams of a political career using the resources and medium around him.  They saw an adult playing with his toys.

Christopher Knight, we salute you and what you did.  Maybe next time try a more viable medium.  May I suggest podcasting?

To see the commercials, visit knightforboard.org

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Hey guys.
Sorry about the delay in news. Personal life happens even in fandom. But speaking of bad news, one of the finest video shows out there covering aspects of fandom as well as regular sci fi is coming to a close.
Lynne's Sci Fi News will be putting out its final episode soon. I've been a huge fan since their early eps, and we at Planet Fandom send out our well wishes to Lynne and her crew. But if you're a fan of the lovely Lynne, don't fret! You can hear her and her cohost, ScifiRanterGirl (I guess some people really do grow into their names) on the Lipstick Aliens Podcast.
To quote them:

"Two sexy sci-fi fan girls talking about TV, movies, technology and more! Hear the latest on Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, SG1, Atlantis, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Battlestar Galactica, 4400, Smallville, Outer Limits, Eureka, Andromeda, Dead Zone, SciFi, Dresden Files, Lost, Lost Room, Heroes, Comic Books, Podcasts, Podiobooks, Caprica, Nasa, Babylon 5, BSG, Zombies, Cylons, Aliens, etc"



You can find them at http://lipstickaliens.libsyn.com/, and for Lynnes final ep (featuring Scott Sigler!) visit
http://lynne.libsyn.com/ (after the final ep, that feed will be become her personal audio
blog).

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