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SOCIAL
NY Times Rectifying Past Mistakes with New Obituaries
Did Heinlein and Asimov Predict Trump’s Rise?
Talk About Retconning: Iconic Western Paintings where all the men are women…(here seldom is heard, a discouraging word, and the guys are all ladies today. Home, home on…)
Several White Supremacist-Adjacent Groups Banned From Facebook (make the usual bleatings about free speech. FYI: Facebook is not a governmental entity)
Resurrecting and Reclaiming Female SF Authors (our good friend Professor Yaszek is featured)
ENTERTAINMENT
David Brin – a gift who keeps on giving: 40 Fabulous SF&F First Lines (David not afraid to include his own)
Oh to be a kid again! This one won a Gemini Capsule!
The Watch has been greenlit by BBC America
Two More Marvel Character Series Set for Streaming Service
And a Deen Koontz Property is in Development
Flash! aaaaAAAAAAA! Reboot gets a director
Beautiful Pig-nosed Nurse Prosthetic from The Outer Limits Goes on Auction (Have to admit, this OL episode freaked me the eff out!)
Jennifer’s Body – panned feminist horror flick, is now GOOD!
There’s a Starman sailing beyond Mars, he’d like to come and meet us, but orbital mechanics…
Old Man LOgan & Star Lord Together at Last
Did you get these SF movies? Lots of People Didn’t
An LGBTQ-Centric Genre Anthology Series Produced by a Transgender Woman (surely the apocalypse is upon us! Throw some POCs and Semites in there and it’s Armageddon!)
Star Trek Discovery Once Again Defends Itself (what I want to know is, if season two is the “Star Trek your grandpa loved”, what the heck was season 1?)
What Makes More Money at the Box Office? Witches, Ghosts or Zombies? (Ghost Zombies, I’m betting)
INDUSTRY
TODAY: Joe Hill att Beford NH Public Library Event
Semtow Sucharitkul Gets Permission to Perform Jesus Christ Superstar in Thailand
A Fanzine that Goes Against Community Standards and Doesn’t Truck with “Nufandom”
Revising Lovecraft — Risky Business
A Possible New Steampunk Con is in the offing
Got an hour and a half? Good, you can learn ALL about the politics of Starship Troopers
TOR Releases New Editions of Scalzi’s Works
SF by Women That Should Be Films NOW
Someone Got Something Scientific Wrong in that Blockbuster SF Movie (invoking waste product and a famous fictional detective here)
How to Become a Concept Artist
How to Become a Comic Book Author
When Science Fiction and Scientology Went Their Separate Ways
SCIENCE
HAVE to lead with this one: Twerking Bots May Soon Be In Your Home
There’s a Starman sailing beyond Mars, he’d like to come and meet us, but orbital mechanics…
A Bose-Einstein Condensate – in spaaaaaaace!
Is there an Insect Die-Off Going On?
Virgin Orbit is Going to Launch a Rocket From a 747
Science Can’t Replace Religion (like it ever wanted to: more aptly titled how to write a book based on a non-existent argument)
Database of Scientific Retractions Goes Online (a similar database for political retractions is unlikely to be created before the heat death of the universe)
Quantum-Entangled Bacteria. Yes, it might be a thing (and to think I laughed at giant Tardigrades in space!)
Just in Time to Miss Halloween – the Scariest Places in the Universe
