SOCIAL
Family Works At Distributing Diverse Books Across the Country
Bill Maher Apparently Doesn’t Like Comics and The Pushback
Here’s what A.I. Ought to be Good At: Inspirational Posters (well, that didn’t go well). Generate your own.
Kids Really Are Getting Worse. Here’s One Take On Why (guess they haven’t seen the Socrates T)
Some Kids Are Getting Better: Superheroes for Girls
…and The Evolution of Women in SF Film
ENTERTAINMENT
FANAC – Fan History: Magicon Video Art Widner Interview
Howard DeVore Collection Going On Sale
GRRM Interview: He Thought A Song of Ice and Fire was going to be a short story
Piccard Said “Make it so”. Actor Pushed to make new Trek show “new and different”. Won’t that be a change!
OK. Change of Tack: How About Queer Icons of Horror?
A Roundup of SF Art From Deviantart (Paul would fit right in)
Audible Fantasy Books for Download
If You Still Are Not Getting Enough Trek, Try This New Podcast
Watchmen Movie Got Everything Right, and Missed the Whole Point
Concept Art for Disney’s Spider-Man (not paying for it unless it lets me shoot a web and swing across the park on it)
17 of the Best SF Books About Colonization
INDUSTRY
Boskone Releases Panel Diversity Info
More Tributes to Stan and Discussions of How We Remember
Writing Erotica (Porn) is a Hallowed Get-By Tradition Among SF Authors. Here’s A Modern Take
William Goldin, Princess Bride Author, Gone
Reactions to Getting, or Not Getting, Into SDCC This Year
Are Superheroes Bad Role Models?
Mira Grant Novel Optioned for Film
SCIENCE
“Singing Through Brain Surgery” ought to have been the name of a Fanzine, not an actual headline
Space.Com Author Makes His Run at the Fermi Paradox
Kinda Sciencey: A Comparison of Exoskeletons
Teaching A.I. Common Sense. (The first hurdle will be explaining that that phrase is an oxymoron)
Russia. Nuclear Rockets. Just Sayin.
Coming Around Again: Is Science Research Stagnant?
Right Up This ‘Ballers Alley: Paintballs Used to Simulate Asteroid Impacts
In Orbit Satellite Servicing (check the tire pressure, sir?)
Not Like the Rest of Us: New Form of Life Discovered