(1) NASA “HUMAN COMPUTER” NOW ON THE MAP. “Moon Mountain Name Honors NASA Mathematician Melba Mouton” the space agency announced this week. Scientists recently named a mesa-like lunar mountain that towers above the landscape carved by craters near the Moon’s … Continue reading
(1) SHORT SFF REVIVAL. Charlie Jane Anders diagnoses the problem and then brings forward “Some Ideas for How to Save Short Fiction!” Short fiction is once again in crisis. After an era when the Internet seemed to be helping a … Continue reading
(1) LOCUS CROWDFUNDING NEARS FINISH LINE. The Locus Magazine Indiegogo campaign wraps up tomorrow. Backers have pledged $73,015 of $75,000 as of this afternoon – they may make it! Sarah Gailey interviewed Locus’ publisher and editor-in-chief at Stone Soup: “Liza … Continue reading
(1) 2022 #BLACKSPECFIC. FIYAH has posted the 2022 #BlackSpecFic Report, an examination of the state of representation of Black authors within the speculative short fiction market published in 2021. This report was composed by L. D. Lewis and Nelson Rolon with … Continue reading
The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop has announced its 2023 slate of instructors. The six faculty members will be Andy Duncan, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Tochi Onyebuchi, Anjali Sachdeva, and Rae Carson. The workshop will be held at UC San … Continue reading
(1) HARPERCOLLINS UNION EMPLOYEES STRIKE. “HarperCollins Workers Strike for Better Pay and Benefits” – the New York Times has the story. Unionized employees at HarperCollins went on strike Thursday, saying they planned to stop working until they reached an agreement … Continue reading
Fandom and the Pendulum: The Astronomicon 13 Fan Guest of Honor Speech By Chris M. Barkley: “We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” — Anais Nin I was resetting a cuckoo clock the … Continue reading
(1) SECRETS OF PKD’S SUCCESS. David Samuels bids you “Welcome to Philip K. Dick’s dystopia” at UnHerd. …What made Dick a literary genius, then, was not any special talent for predicting hand-held personal devices or atom bombs the size of … Continue reading
(1) HWA ELECTIONS UPCOMING. The Horror Writers Association will be holding elections for President, Secretary, and three Trustee positions in September. John Edward Lawson is running unopposed for President, and Becky Spratford is the lone candidate for Secretary. The candidates … Continue reading
(1) WELLS AMA. Martha Wells did an “Ask Me Anything” for Reddit’s r/books today: “I’m Martha Wells, and I’m an author of science fiction and fantasy, including The Murderbot Diaries. AMA!” What authors do you like to read? N.K. Jemisin, … Continue reading