SPECIAL – A review of our most recent issue
OTHER SPECIAL – Hugo Award Final Voting Opens (Eligible voters should have reveived email notification. Visit Dublin 2019 for more info
SOCIAL
Do corporations need government oversite and regulation? Yes, at least if we want to go to space
Film Production Companies Banning Georgia Production over anti-abortion law passage (Amazing Stories films there – let Apple, NBC/Universal and Amblin Entertainment know they should join the ban.)
ENTERTAINMENT
Star Trek and Holy Grail video mashup (truly one of the best things on the internet)
The Thing From Another World (which is a great 50s movie that has not been surpassed by modern remakebootimagines) dissected
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.” The case for not introducing idiocy into substantive conversations
Special Bob Eggleton Department – Godzilla Hatches
Review of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection
An, ummm, alternative view of Thanos
Review of The Wandering Earth pulls no punches
Letter from Harry Harrison to Harlan Ellison on attending the 1978 Worldcon (mired in the ERA controversy)
INDUSTRY
“One of the nice things about inter-generational warfare in any field is that eventually — about forty years later — the young turks start getting what they fairly earned from the next generation of young turks.” from David Gerrold’s Looking Backward, Looking Forward
The Benfords from Corflu (video)
Arthur C. Clarke Award Short List
Prix Aurora Awards Nominations close in 6 days (Canadian award)
Yay Genre! Boo Lit! The Ian McEwan controversy lives on
Crossed Genres is accepting submissions for the Recognize Fascism anthology
A tale of 8 fans and a legendary SF magazine
New Release The Right of the Line (Ark Royal #14 by Chris Nuttall
SCIENCE
Bezos Unveils Blue Moon Lunar Lander
Turning Excess carbon into rocks
Cache of ancient hallucinogens uncovered in Bolivia “Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff”
Since we’re going back to the Moon, this Lunar Lander Instruction Manual might be useful
If you are a millennial, welcome to your singularity future
New ISS Robots almost replicate Huey, Dewey and Louie from Silent Running
