QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Reading is just looking at a dead piece of wood for hours and hallucinating” (From Shower Thoughts)
Alternative Quote of the Week: “Reality is just so ridiculous!” (unknown)
NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON WATCH
Doomsday Clock Moves to Two Minutes to Midnight (Sadly, I no longer have a desk to hide under)
SOCIAL
Anti-LGBTQI Violence Grows During Trump Administration
Privacy and Genetic Testing Don’t Get Along
Bus Detention: Immigration “police” are now boarding busses
Sounds Familiar: The Diversity War at Google
I’d Like to Live HERE, but would prefer that my Internet live in Europe: They have the right to opt out of data-gathering
ENTERTAINMENT
We could’ve had this, but instead we got that: 17 Trek Shows That Never Were
Time for Game of Thrones to End
A Wrinkle in Barbie: New Collectible Dolls Feature Characters from A Wrinkle in Time
Feel-Good Bookstore Story (via MIke Walsh)
Darker than Stranger Things? German Series Dark Premieres on Netflix
INDUSTRY
Tributes to Ursula: SFWA: Locus: LA Times – Scalzi: NY Times: Guardian – Atwood: Europa SF: SF Site: A Fan’s Tribute
Meet SFWA Grand Master Peter S. Beagle
Dark Worlds Quarterly Interviews Mr. Sci-Fi
PBS’ The Great American Read to Feature Atwood, GRRM & Junot Diaz
Worldcon & NASFiC Bids (Yours truly working with Utah NASFiC Bid – stop by the table at Boskone!)
Author Earnings January 2018 Report
Ha Ha Ha – I really didn’t understand Heinlein’s Book and Your’re All Nazis Anyways
French Language SF Mag Solaris
SCIENCE
Mayon Eruption Imminent: (Not a request for sandwich condiments)
Museums Want to Ditch Climate Denying Board Members
How to Watch the Super Blood-Blue Lunar Eclipse
More on Soooper-Doooper Moon Watching
US Space Program Will Be 60 This Month
