AMAZING NEWS: Day 21 of the Occupation 02/09/2025: Resistance Edition

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The FIRST EVER direct images of planets orbiting a sun other than our own!

Of Special Note

Kristine Kathryn Rusch shares this important warning about the ovulation tracking app “Ovia”

Other Special Note

Important information from the SSA regarding policy changes

Fandom

Ars Technical shares information on an app that stymies AI crawlers

Space

Bennu is (may be) coming

Fantastic pics of Io from the Juno mission

A VERY intriguing hi-res capture of the Andromeda Galaxy

Science

The CDC has ordered mass retractions  and revisions of submitted papers

A quick and engaging summary of the Big Bang theory

Excellent animation of the seasons on Mars

Industry

Anvil Magazine has an open call for fiction out

Reviews

Patrick T. Reardon reviews Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer

David Agranoff reviews Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

New Releases

Dean Wesley Smith has a Kickstarter going for his Marble Grant series  It’s already fully funded and only has four days to go

Paul Di Filippo shares the Italian edition of The Summer Thieves

Brenda Cooper shares a sale of her collaboration with Larry Niven

Matthew Hughes’s dying Earth novel Henchmen is now available

Literature

Nnedi Okorafor will be editing 2025’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy with John Joseph Adams

Damien Walter examines Ursula Le Guin’s “philosophy”.  Also – misidentifies JW Campbell Hr. as the editor of Amazing Stories 

Social Commentary

Jon Stewart of the Daily Show blasts the administration’s anti-DEI insanity

Lisa Perry shares these notes from the National Park Service which is holding the line against the regime’s excesses

Ann Stolinsky shares info about the Authors Guild suing Idaho Book Bannings

Joe Haldeman shared this info about an upcoming economic blackout protest

Just For Fun

Nnedi Okorafor shares some pics of her visit with George RR Martin  (and our condolences to her for the recent passing of her mother)

David Lubkin shares some interesting pics of movie posters from theaters in Africa

In the Future

Monday:

The Horror Writer by Robin Kirman – FREE STORY

New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance

Wednesday:

Whatever Happened to PREDATOR?

Thursday:

Matt’s Reviews: Seed To Harvest by Octavia E.Butler

Featured Image

An illustration for Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer from the Easton Press

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