VP BIDEN & SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS WIN THE PRESIDENCY! Said everyone, everywhere: Aljazeera has a wrap of world-leader responses to the win
Check out this “acceptance video”
Do you really need any other news today? Oh, OK.
Robert Sawyer dips into past works for this commentary, an excerpt from his novel Hybrids
F&SF temporarily closes to submissions
David Langford’s Ansible reaches 400th issue!
Want to see what ten quintillion looks like?
Sheree Renee Thomas takes over the helm at Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine
SF Commentary’s latest
Virgin Galactic will soon be giving rides to Suborbital Scientists
Alan Moore on Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner
Walter Day releases new movie cards, including one for the iconic Invaders From Mars flick
OMG: So-called Socialists have taken over the White House and now – 007 is going to be a Black Woman! What kind of crazed alternate reality did you wake up in this morning? (Hint: The Real World)
Do you think Dylan was singing about bookstores in Shelter From the Storm? This article does.
An anatomical drawing from an unknown text that might have been published following a horrific experiment
The latest issue of Analog – Nov-Dec 2020 – is out
Ridley Scott on the latest Alien’s franchise movie
Send your DNA to the Moon: (they say they won’t do anything with it except encase it in artificial amber and send it on its way, but there’s that little thing in the TOS about them being able to change the terms any time they want to….)
Ominous headline from the Atlantic: America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
Going the long way around: we’ll just quote this: “There’s something both odd and pleasurable in seeing a highly stylized cartoon toy of a famous actor portraying a famous movie character based on a character in a novel based in turn off of one of your oldest friends and still being able to recognize that friend’s expression reflected in the picture of the toy.” Click here for the explanation
HERE’S! Your Flying Car: First Flight
New Evidence for Humans in North America from 130,000 years ago
This is brilliant: analyzing Qanon from a game designer’s viewpoint
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Congratulations to our Science Fiction & Fantasy nominees for the 12th Annual Goodreads Choice Awards! Please join your fellow readers and vote for your favorite authors and stories—or if you’re new to these books, discover why they have captured so many imaginations.
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Martha Wells
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Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.
The first full-length novel in Martha Wells’ New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.
“I caught myself rereading my favorite parts… and I can’t recommend it enough.”—The New York Times
Vote for Network Effect! |
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V. E. Schwab
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A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.
Vote for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue! |
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Tochi Onyebuchi
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Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience.
“Impossible to put down.”—Buzzfeed
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Christopher Paolini
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Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds.
Now she’s awakened a nightmare.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini.
“Dazzles with otherworldly delights—and unearthly nightmares.”—Newsweek
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Lindsay Ellis
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Truth is a human right.
The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom’s End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.
“If you want to read a serious sci-fi novel that feels like it was written by a fan who understands the pop culture side of fandom, you’re in good hands.”—Syfy Wire
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Brandon Sanderson
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The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson’s #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game.
Vote for Rhythm of War! |
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TJ Klune
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Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune’s bestselling, breakout contemporary fantasy.
“1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in.”—Gail Carriger, New York Times bestselling author of Soulless
Vote for The House in the Cerulean Sea! |
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John Scalzi
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Will Grayland become the savior of her civilization . . . or the last emperox to wear the crown?
The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi.
Vote for The Last Emperox! |
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Tamsyn Muir
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Harrow the Ninth, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor’s haunted space station.
“Deliciously bonkers, achingly, heartbreakingly twisted and purposefully broken.”—NPR
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