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Other Special Note: We are pleased to announce that Amazing Stories is on the final ballot for the N3F’s Neffy Awards in the Best Magazine (2019) category! (National Fantasy Fan Federation – N3F)
SOCIAL
Too Rich: Trump Addresses Students in Front of a Hacked Presidential Seal
Report: “Highly Likely” Civilization Could END By 2050
We Don’t Have 12 Years to Save the Planet: More Like 18 MONTHS
ENTERTAINMENT
The Fan who may have (accidentally) started the whole Moon Hoax conspiracy – complete with Stanley Kubrick (scroll to the bottom of page 4)
Harlan Ellison hosts an airing of The Prisoner
Steve Stiles, self-portrait, comic book style
Black Science Fiction/Afrofuturist Science Fiction is producing some fantastic art
Gang Violence – with Light Sabers
The 1950’s SF Flick No One Ever Saw
Charles Addam’s At the Patent Attorney Cartoon
Tarantino Trek: Will get rid of Kelvin Timeline
Villeneuve’s Dune Production Wraps
Transcript of Robert A. Heinlein’s GoH Speech – 1941
INDUSTRY
Lots of discussion being generated by J. Michael Straczynski’s autobiography and a talk
THIS is how you promote a book: Jack Clemons running all over the eastern seaboard, delivering lectures and (this time a TV show) more
Info for anyone who may be bringing a contribution to WOOF to Worldcon
More Old-Timey Fanzines scanned
British Fantasy Awards Shortlist
Senator and Presidential Candidate Booker Goes to SDCC
NESFA Press has released their e-book edition of Moskowitz’s The Immortal Storm (Now there is NO excuse for fans not to be familiar with one version of fannish history)
Anthology of Spec Fic by Palestinian Authors: Palestine +100
Homer Hickam – Rocket Boy – testifies before Congress: “We need to go back to the Moon”
ALA Up in Arms Over MacMillan E-Book Embargo
SCIENCE
Chris Kraft, the man who created NASA’s culture, has died
Not Quite 50 Years On: Skylab debris rained all over Australia and some folks made money
Saturn 1 Rocket – FREE (plus $250,000 shipping)
Cool Video of a true-to-scale Solar System created in the desert
Pic of a Soviet Satellite Killer Unearthed
Zero G Pee Discussion Goes Viral
No White Cliffs of Dover for Flyboard Inventor
Morgan Freeman Proposes Space Day – turn off all the lights so we can see the galaxy!
School Course Syllabi Database – who is teaching whom and how often?
Carbon Tube Based Lithiumn Battery Could Double Battery Life