SPECIAL NOTE: Real Star Trek The Orville Returns THIS evening
SOCIAL
“Racial Dot Map” Reveals Interesting Clusters
Kima Jones Founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts
You can get it, but scientists can’t. Marijuana Research Stymied
National Institute of Health’s Plumbing was Hiding an Infectious Bacteria
If you’re into BDSM, you might be infected with Toxoplasmosis, the Cat Lady virus.
On the reading of biblical passages from space
ISIS and American Religious Terrorism
Bookstore Tackles Sexism in Publishing
ENTERTAINMENT
The Teaser for Ian’s Realm, a crowd-funded film project based on the fantasy series by D.L. Gardner, has dropped
Trailer for Jordan Peele’s followup to Get Out Released
32 White Horses Charity Anthology Released
How to write a “winning” author’s bio on Facebook
No Love Lost Between early Fantasists: Tolkein’s Instructions Regarding Disney
More Haffner Press: Bloch’s Vampire Stories Collection, with a cover by Gahan Wilson
If Superhero Babies Were Kept in the Maternity Ward
“…and then it exploded”. SF Transportation not safe at any speed
Trimbles Celebrate Nichelle (Uhura) Nichol’s 86th Birthday
David Bunch’s Fiction Gets the WAPO Treatment
Now they’re teaching Harry Potter in Film Class
Star Trek Fandom at the Crossroads
INDUSTRY
Michael Swanwick, master of words, waxes eloquent on the advantages of typos (if which I hope there are none in the preceding)
Haffner Press Releases the Latest Kuttner Volume
Billie Sue Mosiman, author, has passed
Watershed year for expiring copyrights
Illustrating my contention that “niches” have gone too far, this teaser: Foundryside is a cyberpunk adventure wrapped in an epic fantasy novel
Did Warner Brothers Plagiarize Youtube Fight Scenes?
The 7 Best Ways to Read Digital Comics
The Typography of Science Fiction and a Collection of Free SF Fonts
TOR’s January Fantasy Releases
Doctorow Reviews Damon Knight’s Why Do Birds? (better get your used copy now, they’re few, far between and expensive…but I got mine)
Young Muslims are Inspired by SF Visions
The Best Reads for your New Kindle
6 Ways Star Trek Can Move Forward (Mirror Universe series. Effin do it! already)
SCIENCE
The Super Blood Wolf Moon is Coming (me, I want to know what the “super” is modifying…)
You can’t see it (duh) but this image shows the capture of a single atom
Astronaut Anders (Apollo 8) is “scathing” in his criticism of NASA. (Bet he never read Malzberg’s Beyond Apollo)
If you want to be a space traveler, you have to pass the Karmin Line
Chinese Scientists Turn Copper into “almost-gold”. Ummm. No
The BBC’s Top Ten Science Stories of 2018
Wired’s Most Read Science Stories of 2018
Predicting the Top Science Stories of 2019
Samsung TV’s to Include Ports for keyboards (don’t buy all-in-ones. when “one” fails, all fail)
Hole in Space: ISS Capsule Hole Mystery Deepens (yeah, but what I want to know is how someone managed to stowaway long enough to drill the damn thing)
