AMAZING NEWS: 4/22/24: Awaiting the Premiere of Chanda’s Legacy

TOMORROW!  The First Episode of Dave Creek’s Chanda’s Legacy premieres right here on Amazing Stories!  

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AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS

David Gerrold shares the news of John Trimble’s passing

Laura Frankos Turtledove reports on a show performed at the Hippodrome – A YANKEE CIRCUS ON MARS

Nnedi  Okorafor will be speaking at Yale

Michael Swanwick offers up some good advice for new writers

John O’Neil of Black Gate offers up this review of a debut space opera Under Fortunate Stars

Somtow Sucharitkul (S.P. Somtow) receives honors as a State Artist of Thailand

Tony Peak takes the Frank Herbert Trail

Lou J. Berger remarks on the similarity of life time experiences among his writing friends and Lou’s latest Death and Redemption Somewhere Near Tuba City is out

Adam-Troy Castro has put several more of his books on sale

David Gerrold shares these reading tips from someone who has read 350 books.

David Brin seems to be happy with the latest editions of Earth and Glory Season, two very predictive SF novels

Fandom

Hugo Awards Final Voting for the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon has now opened

A different side of Trina Robbins, cartoonist (and much more)

Space

The cheapest ride to (near) space is in a balloon

Pluto’s Heart-shaped basin was the result of a collision with another planetary body

Science

A rare event:  two lifeform merge to create a new one:  “The phenomenon is called primary endosymbiosis”a process by which one organism is absorbed by another, the original becoming an organ. As the article states, the last time this happened, Earth got plants.  This one can “fix” nitrogen right from the air.  (And no, your publisher was not the only one to say “Hal Clement’s The Nitrogen Fix in response.)

AI is getting in on watching the Great Barrier Reef Bleaching

WEBB images a “dead” galaxy

Another ancient giant sea creature found on an English beach

Collapse of a Mayan Dynasty suggested by new finds

Industry

Don Blyly reports in his updates from Uncle Hugo’s Bookstore that he suffered a heart attack, but is now healing up.  You can learn all about this “storied” bookstore by signing up for the newsletter here

Chris Korczak is offering book and magazine bundles

Literature

Does Science Fiction Shape the Future?  Nautilus asked some of our leading lights.  Here are their responses

Carol Emshwiller’s 103rd Birthday annoucement celebrates her contributions: “Called “a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction” by Ursula K. Le Guin, Carol Emshwiller played a prominent role in science fiction’s new-wave movement.” (1921-2019)

An Urdu translation of Dune has been released

Film & TV

Why did they bother in the first place?  Completed films and shows locked in a vault because its cheaper to shit can them than to air them?  (Someone needs to take a look at the following:  Hollywood Practices:  Tax Code)

Was the Black Hole a Star Wars ripoff? 

Retro

If you like seeing old things coming back to life again (no, not zombies), then you might enjoy some of these restoration videos

Social Commentary

Hmmm.  Seems like the Hugo Awards are the only ones “fixing” things in China: at a Beijing Half Marathon event, three runners slowed down at the finish to allow a Chinese competitor to win.  Mini-Editorial:  It should be lost on no one that this is not the same kind of “fixing” that sullied the Hugo Awards, but it is indicative of how international events under Chinese governmental auspices are corrupted by that system.  Anyone want to bet that the “win” was well covered in the Chinese (state approved) media, but the end result wasn’t?

Puppies of the art world?  Museum worker fired for hanging their own art

NSFW:  “Fallen Angel” at a revival show.  (May be staged, too funny not to share)

Just For Fun

From a 1970s Japanese animated series featuring a resurrected WWII battleship-turned-spaceship to a sculpture made out of straw certainly illustrates the show’s reach, if not the height of fannish expression.