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Stupefying Stories #47 is coming this November
Paul Di Filippo reviews Malzberg
Jack Dann announces the publication of The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History
“Jargon Free” Explanation of LLMs (LOL)
Alien (looking) Virus found in Massachusetts (which is “real close” to Providence. Just sayin.)
Damian Walter goes off on Apple’s Foundation series
Scott Edelman has a story in the latest issues of Lightspeed magazine
Dave Langford announces the availability of Hansen’s 1965 The Second UK Worldcon
Speaking of Dave: The latest issue of Ansible is now online
Chris Garcia has a Hugo Awards display at the Boulder Creek library
Populating the Future: Families and Reproduction in Speculative Fiction is now available
My old blog – The Crotchey Old Fan – came up elsewhere recently. Here’s a link to what remains
A new Blu Ray release of It The Terror From Beyond Space is out
Some advice before engaging with the Dune series
NASA reestablishes communications with Voyager 2
Thomas Fortenberry shares this illo of Kirk and his women (TOS Kirk, just to be clear)
A clear case of Stack Confusion
Speaking of Stupefying Stories, Al Sirois’s Of Two Minds is now live
WEBB Captures Best Picture Ever of the Ring Nebula
Hey Sana Ho Sana, Fruit Flies Induced to produce virgin births
The Michael Burstein edited Jewish Futures anthology from Fantastic Books is now available (Kickstarter backers have or should be receiving their copies – I got mine!)
David Brin discusses “UFOs” with Forbes