(1) MUNROE DOCTRINE. “Moon dust may not burn you, but it’s no picnic.” In his debut “Good Question” column for The New York Times, “If I Touched the Moon, What Would It Feel Like?”, science author Randall Munroe explores what … Continue reading
(1) A MATTER OF RESPECT. Edmund Schluessel has returned from Fantasticon 2019, in Copenhagen, Denmark with a burden: “I attended as a Special Guest this weekend in Copenhagen. There has been discussion within the Nordic countries’ fan community about the … Continue reading
(1) ON THEIR WATCH. In The Guardian, Amal El-Mohtar answers the question “Why are there so many new books about time-travelling lesbians?” Tagline: At a time when historical amnesia is making itself widely felt, these stories show how readily the … Continue reading
(1) DRAGON AWARD NOMINATIONS OPEN. Camestros Felapton found that the “Dragon Award Nominations Are Open Sort Of” — the “sort of” meaning Camestros experienced the same thing that I did before I tried it out — the actual nominations page is … Continue reading
(1) ADVANCED CREATURE ACCOUNTING. If there had been a test I would not have passed… Lesson of the Day: Know Your Cephalopods https://t.co/lYT7A8osmW pic.twitter.com/zduDHg7Gvy — Nnedi Okorafor, PhD????? (@Nnedi) December 2, 2017 (2) LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT SKY. Excitement this … Continue reading
(1) APPROACHES TO MILSF. Greg Hullender’s review of “Infinity Wars, edited by Jonathan Strahan” for Rocket Stack Rank includes this analysis: Make Love not War The stories take the following attitudes toward the military: Hate it. Soldiers are doing evil: … Continue reading
The Young Adult (Hugo) Award: A Minority Report By Chris M. Barkley: Author’s Note: Of all the columns I have written so far, the following was the hardest and took the longest period to write. From my own, subjective viewpoint, … Continue reading
(1) PETALS TO THE METAL. At Young People Read Old SFF, curator James Davis Nicoll is a little worried: My hit rate for this series so far has been… somewhat lower than I hoped. It’s not that I am going … Continue reading
Birthdays, baseball and Bill Murray cannot disguise the fact that it’s all Lou Antonelli all the time in today’s Scroll. (1) August 9 is a big day on the science fiction birthday calendar. Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014) Daniel Keyes (1927-2014) … Continue reading
Compiled by Jonathan K. Stephens. All thanks to Jonathan for assembling in one place the favorite stories named by readers over the past couple of days, and for his yeoman work in giving them a consistent format. He has also noted how many different lists … Continue reading