This Week’s News Is Brought To You By –
Captain Future and the Futuremen (which includes women…and androids, robots and brains in jars). Read Allen Steele’s on-going, blockbuster series!
Of Special Note
Over the past week I switched my home system for a new one; unfortunately, I did not think that I needed to make a separate copy of my bookmarks to copy to my new system, believing that such a task would be taken care of by the automated process I used. Silly me. As a result, Amazing News is greatly truncated this week.
AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS
Lynne Fahnestalk, she of the wonderful robot (and now spaceship) sculptures, sent along this advertisement for a carpet company…
Fandom
File 770 reports that Jul Owings, a long-time Baltimore fan, has passed
Space
There’s something of a Parade of Planets going on in the night sky these days
Industry
Amazon releases their Best SF of 2024 list
New Releases
WMG Books has launched a Kickstarter
Literature
“Fairy Porn” is taking flight…or should that be “on the rise?”
Don’t forget to subscribe to On Spec magazine
Just For Fun
G.I. Joe Astronaut and floating Mercury Capsule Ad (Despite very strong personal requests, I never got that capsule and spacesuit when I was growing up. Reader’s wishing to rectify that oversite may send capsules, spacesuits or cash to me, here at Amazing HQ)
In the Future
Monday:
The Crafts by Raya Yarbrough – FREE Fiction
Tuesday:
The Big Idea: Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Wednesday:
Unexpected Questions with Rick Wilber
Thursday:
Whatever Happened to The LAST STARFIGHTER?
Excerpt: Mr. Jone’s Smoking Bones
Friday:
Matt’s Reviews: Mind Of My Mind by Octavia Butler