SOCIAL
Tampon Review: You don’t really know what’s in them
Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Plan Comes Under Fire from Pols Who Don’t Know Jack About Economics: SF’s Own Economic Expert & Nobel Laureate Supports Her (You know, the one who was inspired by Asimov’s Foundation Series)
If You Insist on doing The Bird Box Challenge, eat a Tide Pod First
NYCC Panel Asks: Does Your SF Have to be ‘woke’?
ENTERTAINMENT
1/2/2019 Was National SF Day: Geek Cred Checklist: Have You Seen ALL of these Films? (I’ve seen them all, plus all but 5 of this Rotten Tomatoes List)
Another website suggests you need to see these films for your geek cred
What One Former President Read Last Year
Black Science Fiction Society Profiles Airship Calendar
Fan Film Takes Us Where No Franchie Has Gone Before: Mashes Up Multiple Universes
A wonderful gallery of images from the Athens Miniature Show: Lots of Star Wars…but also just about every franchise imaginable is in there
Forbes Delves Into Star Tek Discovery
Slate’s Future Tense Offers More Fiction
Entertainment? SAC Apologizes for Bombing Tweet
How Close Were the Cinematic Predictions of 2019?
Cavill’s Aquaman Impression: add the Tick’s spoon and you can start a new super hero team called the Place Settings
11 SF Greats You Can Stream Right Now
Harry Mudd Returns in Star Trek Short
INDUSTRY
Black Speculative Arts Movements offers Celebrating the Women of Black Speculative Genre conference
Marvel’s Stan Lee Cover Tributes
Boskone Mini Interviews with Brad Abraham, Brenda Clough and Lisa Hertel
Worldbuilding vs Worldconjuring. I didn’t even know conjuring was a real thing….
Open Call for Triangulation Anthology
Small Beer Press offers Sarah Pinsker’s Sooner of Later, Everything Falls Into the Sea
NYRSF Presents Rick Bowes’s 75th Birthday Celebration
New Release from Air and Nothigness Press: Cities of Dust, Planes of Light
Authors Wrestling with Post Trump Futures
The Verge Extols Forthcoming Novels
Mickey Mouse Will Soon Be in the Public Domain: But Only Parts of Him
If O’Neil Cylinders Excite You, So Will These Novels
Star Trek via The Heroe’s Journey
Ken Liu’s Intro to a new anthology of Chinese Science Fiction
SCIENCE
China Confirms: No NAZI Base on Lunar Farside: NASA suggests possible re-location to Ultima Thule
Should this be under science? Uhhh, sure. Giant Mech Takes First Steps
Now Add Windows: Musk Reveals more Starship Details
Being Too Cute Can Incite Aggression: Something Those of Us Who Enjoy Watching Bambi Meets Godzilla Have Been Well Aware of for Quite Some Time: Watch to see what we mean:
New Horizon’s Photos of Ultima Thule, the space snowman
Stretch far enough….the internet, predicted much earlier than you supposed