AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS
Jeff VanderMeer will be a featured guest at Neconomicon this coming August
David Gerrold shares a post by Norman Spinrad, discussing Harlan Ellison
Paul Di Filippo shares this unusual reading device
Michael Kressel announces the upcoming release of Space Trucker Jess
Michael Swanwick shares the BBC’s coverage of living flesh being developed for robots
More Scott Edelman: Celebrating Daryl Gregory’s birthday on Eating the Fantastic
David Agranoff reviews Ron Goulart’s Flux
Fandom
Space
Sign up for and ask questions at this NASA event covering the Moon and Mars
It could be MONTHS before Starliner returns from the ISS
Science
Samples from asteroid Bennu suggest they originated on a “water world”
Flagstaff is the country’s first “dark city”. You can see the Milky Way at night
Industry
Literature
Film & TV
Tocin Cole stars in Supacell, a super hero series addressing the Black London experience
Lupita Nyongo was terrified of cats before filming A Quiet Place: Day One
Retro
Cold War Museum in Poland is inside a nuclear bunker
Social Commentary
An NY Times opinion piece discusses a “chill” in Jewish publishing circles
Just For Fun
Well, creepy fun actually. An AI offering with some very disturbing images
If Horror films really took place in the south
What the Great Replacement Theory is really all about
Amazing AI video of cats in the military
Mini-Editorial
In the Future
Monday – Free Fiction: Welcome to FoodDroid! by Luke Foster
Excerpt: Realm United by Katie Kerigan
Tuesday – The Big Idea: Dan Rice
Paul Levinson interviews Mark Dawidziak about Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and more
Wednesday – Unexpected Questions with Vincent H. O’Neil
Book View Cafe Readings: Signed in Blood by Irene Radford writing as PR Frost
Stages of Growth – Free Poetry
Thursday – What Happened to the VEHICLES from ARK II?
Friday – Matt’s Reviews: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
Saturday – The Big Idea: Rob Costell