Federation threatens to destroy the Earth. Science-fictional Lysenkoism In a discussion on rec.arts.sf.written about why Golden Age science fiction so often uses aliens said to derive from short-lived but well-known stars such as Rigel whose lifespan is probably too brief to ever allow the rise of life due to the long-established mass-luminosity relationship for main-sequence stars, Nicoll identified what he termed the "SFnal Lysenkoist Tendency when actual, tested science contradicts some detail in an SF story, attack the science." He expanded on this idea in an article for online science fiction and fantasy magazine Tor.com. Awards Nicoll was a finalist for the 2010, 2011, 2019, and 2020 Hugo Awards for Best Fan Writer. He served as a judge for the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award. In 2021 and 2022, he was nominated for the Aurora Award for Best Fan Writing and Publication, for the series "Young People Read Old SFF" published on his review website. Nicoll has also been a Fan Guest of Honor (GoH) at SF conventions, including ConFusion 2013 in Detroit and Arisia 2014 in Boston. In 2020, he was nominated for the Down Under Fan Fund, to visit science fiction fandom in Australasia as a representative of their North American counterparts. References External links More Words, Deeper Hole, James Nicoll's DreamWidth weblog James Davis Nicoll, James Nicoll's public review site Nicoll's columns for Tor.com Nicoll's Usenet posts in Google Groups: since 2000, 2000–1, 1996–9, 1990–2 Millennial Reviews: A series of reviews by James Nicoll of science fiction books set in the year 2000. 1961 births Businesspeople from Kitchener, Ontario Canadian businesspeople in retailing Canadian literary critics Canadian speculative fiction critics Living people Science fiction critics Security guards Usenet people