AMAZING NEWS: 2/18/24

It’s 2024.  Do you know where your children are?

Paul Levinson’s It’s Real Life: An Alternate History of The Beatles is now available, commemorating The Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.  The short story and a radio play of the same are available for free here and here.

Mimas has an ocean.  It’s a tiny one, but so is the moon.

This image was first published at the beginning of Black History Month.  “Birth of a Nation” is very biting commentary.

No, the Georgia Guide Stones were not emplaced by aliens.  They may have been placed by an advocate for eugenics.

Remember when some SF authors suggested that maybe comets and asteroids were the source for most of the water on Earth?  Now they’ve found some.  For realz.

A teeny tiny robot performed teeny tiny surgery aboard the ISS

We don’t generally put images in the news round up, but I think the similarity between Zendaya’s look at the Dune 2 premiere and Sorayama’s robot illustrations justify doing so:

Zendaya wears archival butt-baring Mugler couture suit to “Dune: Part Two” premiere in London. MIKE MARSLAND/WIREIMAGE; SAMIR HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE/People Magazine Photo credit: Chuck Choi / Dior (via Hypebeast).

Mainstream & Other Coverage of The Hugo Controversy:

NBCNews

NYTimes

The War for the Hugo Awards

More

& More & More

Fallout:

Diane Lacey resigns from CanSMoF

A review of Brunner’s The Whole Man

An Encore from Somtow

FANAC adds a Terry Pratchett GoH speech to its archive

DAW Announces the release of Wole Talabi’s Convergence Problems (and appearance dates)

Chris Garcia’s Wife is Running for TAFF (Vanessa Applegate is running for TAFF)

Alex Shvartsman’s Worlds of Possibility is now open for submissions

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