AMAZING NEWS: Despite It All, The World Rolls On Edition – 11/17/2024

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Amazing Stories, The Best of 2023

Edited to Add the Horror Story of the Week: Warner Brothers has greenlit a remake of Forbidden Planet

 

Of Special Note

David Brin really drove home some points about the election in this piece on Heinlein’s If This Goes On…

Other Special Note

The Gemini AI program told a user that he should die.  The statement seemingly came out of nowhere.

AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS

Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware offers up a list of on-line go-to resources

An interview with Paul Di Filippo

J. Michael Straczynski is changing the nature of his Patreon program and will be starting up The Joe Page.

Scott Edelman encourages you to nibble some soup with Brenda Clough

Al Sirois shares the PR for his latest Imhotep and the Quest To Kush

Fandom

Metal Hurlant, the original French magazine Heavy Metal was based on, is having a Kickstarter that has already FAR exceeded its goals.

Hildy Silverman shares her Philcon Schedule

Industry

Watching these order picking robots at a huge warehouse is almost hypnotic

Literature

Damien Walter tackles some issues regarding H. G. Wells.  Was he a fascist?

Social Commentary

James Lowder offers up this cautionary note about Microsoft Word’s Co-Pilot, and the data it may be gathering.

In the Future

Monday:
The Coldest Cell by GJ Halley – FREE STORY

Tuesday:
The Big Idea: Sam Wilson

Wednesday:
Unexpected Questions with Chris Marrs
Unexpected Questions with Kate Elliott

Thursday:
The Evil Within: El cerebro como el parque de atracciones de un psicópata
What Happened to the STUNT ROBOT from LOST iN SPACE?

Friday:
La columna del invertebrado: La sustancia hace al horror irresistible
Matt’s Reviews: Cyberbooks by Ben Bova

Featured Image

The cover of the first issue of Heavy Metal, from 1977.  Heavy Metal was an English language version of the French magazine Hetal Hurlant, which is attempting a comeback.  Incidentally, one of Amazing Stories former editors, Ted White, also edited Heavy Metal for a time.

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