SPECIAL NOTE: The votes are in for the 2017 Hugo Awards! Now it’s all over except for the shouting!
SOCIAL
Coverage of Okorafor’s Who Fears Death on HBO also – VICE Removes Author’s Name From Promotional Book Cover and GRRM to Adapt
Rey STILL Not a Monopoly Piece
Claiming Gender Fluidity vs Playing Dressup
Environmentalists are being Murdered (200 last year)
Texas Wants You To Bring A Sword To A Gun Fight
Bannon’s Political Christianity Not Catholic: Pope’s Confidantes Issue “Scathing Rebuke”
ENTERTAINMENT
Wrinkle in Time Photos – and – Trailer (WOW!)
Great Comeback to Moon Landing Hoaxers
Comic Kahn – Genre Comedian. Not Much More Need Be Said
…But He Never Said “Spooooooon!”
David Hasselhoff in Guardians Video
Inspiration from Octavia Butler
Galactic Journey Visits 1962 Amazing
2017 Emmy Noms (Decent number of genre offerings in there. Now lets watch them get dissed)
THIS is IMPORTANT: Correct Viewing Order for Marvel Universe
Galaxy Magazine Archive (via J. Zitt)
Vacation to “Nowhere” (via M Alan Kazlev)
Everything From the Future is Old Again (via Glenn Glazer)
INDUSTRY
Windy City Papercon (great pulp art for the promo)
New Release: The Chronology Protection Case by Paul Levinson
New Release: Croaker: Tequila Mockingbird
New Release: THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF AGENTS SALAMANDER AND CROW
An Unpublished Sendak! (via File 770)
An English Translation of Karen Tidbeck’s Amatka
Gladiator at Law – Free Robot Lawyer
When did “Mundane” Come to Mean “Non-Fan”?
SCIENCE
If you are a bird and you hear a tiny voice saying “Brains! Brrrraaaiiinnnsss!” It just might be a Praying Mantis (Trigger warning for hummingbird lovers)
Chinese Students Embark on 200 Day “Space MIssion”
Iceberg So Large, It Will Soon Have It’s Own McDonalds
Roman Concrete: Coming to a Water-Logged World Near You
Bermuda Triangle Explained (Again)
Hyper Means Slow, Right? Hyperloop Test
This Ancient Bird Was Not Eaten By a Praying Mantis
How Smart Are Ravens? Really Smart
Fist-of-God’s Little Sister About to Erupt
Will It Be Planet Nine, or Planet Ten?
