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SOCIAL

“Rights” Extended to Non-Human PERSON by Argentinian Courts (This category of person ought to extend IMHO to: all great apes, most, if not all of the monkies, dolphins & most, if not all cetaceans, many octopi & cuttlefish, elephants, dogs, big cats & small, many rodents (particularly raccoons & rats) and perhaps even to some insect species, such as Mantises.)

Elf-on-a-Shelf Engaged in Social Engineering (it’s just an extension of fairy tale logic.  Why is it that our fairy tales are all horror stories?)

Gamergate Doesn’t End:  More from Zoe & Brianna

VICE on Gamergate

Not Only Do They Need Batteries, but They Keep You Up At Night

Good Guys in SF Romance

Most Hated Woman on da Interwebs?

ENTERTAINMENT

Neil deGrasse Tyson is such a Card!  (holiday tweets raise ire from some – if only they’d actually read…)

Now When He Is Asked “Are you a god?”, Ernie Hudson can answer:  “Why yes. Yes I am.”

Jack Vance Youtube Channel

Peter Jackson Must. Be. Stopped!

Speaking of Peter Jackson in Elvish….

Boskone Progress Report #1

Short Film Nightfall

What Else Can You Say But – THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!

Hundreds of Star Wars Comics On Sale (victims of the great de-cannonizing!)

The Top Five Ways Earth Will Be Invaded

Suvudu Lists New SF, Fantasy, Horror TV for 2015

Ranking 73 Star Wars Characters.  (Guess who is last?)

From Film to Book

Bar Fight:  Who Has the Better Line UP?  DC or Marvel

First British SF Film Restored

Agent Carter Pics!

INDUSTRY

The Most Recommended Novels of ALL Time – include an awful lot of genre works….(post on this) and

Windycon – chaired in 2015 by Steven H Silver – will have a Hitchhiker’s theme

Authorized Guide to THHGTTG: The Frood

Obama Presidential Library design is from the future

Lunacon’s Meeting Scheduled

Sasquan Announces Hugo Award Base Competition

Czech Science Fiction

Donald Moffit: 1931-2014

The New CLASSICS:  Jemisin & Leckie on Orbit Youtube

Audiobook Demand High According to Random

Are Indie Authors 2nd Class Citizens?

Free Recording from John Anealio:  Seasons Geekings

Remember These Animated Films? (via SF Signal)

Fritz Leiber & Dungeons & Dragons

SAG Nominations

SCIENCE

Most Awesome Space Photos of 2014 (and they are!)

Telekinesis via Computer:  controlling artificial limbs with the mind

Our Newest Galactic Neighbor

Kepler Keeps On Keplering

New Tick Borne Virus

NASA Robot to Compete in DARPA Chalenge

ISS Christmas (if it had been run by a private firm it might have been called SpaceXmas…)

More NDT:  This time at Macy’s

8 Game-Changing Innovations of 2014

2014 Science Round Up by David Brin

New Stonehenge Discovery

PRESS RELEASES & NEWSLETTERS

27th of December 2014 PRADOR MOON BY NEAL ASHER IS AVAILABLE FOR $1.99 ONAMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE! Neal Asher takes on first contact, Polity style. This original novel recounts the first contact between the aggressive Prador aliens, and the Polity Collective as it is forced to retool its society to a war footing. The overwhelming brute force of the Prador dreadnaughts causes several worlds and space stations to be overrun… read more    MORE IN NEAL ASHER’S POLITY UNIVERSE

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26th of December 2014 BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOLUME 3 IS AVAILABLE FOR $1.99 ON AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE! A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase… and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself… by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to track down an unfinished film by a reclusive cult director; a man spends a chill night standing watch over his uncle’s body; a girl looks to understand her place in a world in which… read more     MORE AMAZING HORROR ANTHOLOGIES

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23rd of December 2014 WASTELANDS BY JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS IS AVAILABLE FOR $1.99 ON AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE! Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon — these are our guides through the Wastelands… From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of speculative fiction, including George R.R. Martin… read more     READ MORE FROM JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS

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