SPECIAL NOTE: Trying something new this week: no longer dividing news into topic categories. Let me know what you think!
Arthur C Clarke Center for Human Imagination will feature a talk and reading by N. K. Jemisin on April 3rd. More info here. She will be reading from her latest novel The City We Became
Paul Levinson has created a Spotify list of Science Fiction and Fantasy songs (it starts with Zager & Evans In the Year 2525, so you know it has reach), featuring numerous artists as well as cuts from his own recently released album Songs of Space and Time
The new Corona Virus, now named Covid-19, has been declared a global health emergency
SF&F magazines: Readership healthy, revenues not
Polar Borealis Canadian SFF magazine is open for submissions until 2/29
So what else is new? New Funding Bill could affect NASA’s return to the Moon
Author William Gibson says people are not excited about the 22nd century
Checkout Retro Science Fiction review for all of your Retro Hugo Voting Needs
The A-Z List of Black Inventors: a lot more than you are aware of
An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy
An interesting take on cultural appropriation in literature
Complex: an interactive movie
KSR on the re-release of Three Californias
It’s the 30th anniversary of the HHGTTG Game
From the BBC Archives – JG Ballard
FRB on a 16 day cycle: A repeatable signal from space...but most likely not LGMs
V’GER Voyager 2 is Back Online!
What if the Holocaust took place today? A very unsettling video
Birds of Prey (Now Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey) discussion about female heroes
How to create a Hostile Convention Environment
If you are in Santa Fe, go check out the Ian’s Realm film
Ten Decades of SF Represented by Ten Films
Bracelet of Silence Blocks Recording by Digital Assistants