Water Ice confirmed on Mars; GRRM does SF a solid; Steve Stiles art 50+ years on, Armadillocon boots a bad actor, Batwoman won’t just be a lesbian, she’ll be a Jewish lesbian, and more

Leigh Brackett, happenings in Hispanic CF, reviews, defending Starship Troopers, and more

AO3, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Trump disses Edgar Allen Poe, new spacesuit for lunar missions, Dune and Starship Troopers reboots, so much more!

Afrofuturism, Stiles self-portrait, Two Ellison sightings, an RAH GoH speech from 1941, Amazing Stories up for Best Magazine award, Palestinian spec-fic, Rocket Boy talks to Congress, Soviet era satellite killer, Tarantino’s Trek gets rid of Kelvin timeline, Dune wraps, Zero G Pee, Hugo Award voting coming to a close and the Fan who may have started the Moon Hoax conspiracy theory!

Well: Mark Hogancamp continues to make an appearance, as do Big Brained Aliens; we have some notes for website readers informing them of stuff they may not know about the site and a lot of other popular posts from the past week.

Space stations in decaying orbits, the end of the species coming at ya, fast, MCU Phase 4, The Walking Dead trailer, Picard. The Orville boldy goes where other shows have gone before; if the space station falling down doesn’t get you, maybe the giant carnivorous worm will!

Editorials, Mark Hogancamp, mermaids and Canadian fiction round out our most popular posts

wow – big week for all kinds of news! New releases, impending releases; see-thru aluminum; Feminist Fright Fest and women in Astounding; Big Lebowski sequel, RAH vs Norton and Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator speech (oh, and a lot, lot more)

There’s gotta be a lotta love for wizards out there…plus amazing amount of foreign language posts making the top of the list!
1

I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made a speech. Plus – wow – all kinds of stuff: Delany on Stonewall, scientists trying to open a portal to another realm, trademarks for authors, Datlow, Gerrold, Doug Smith, Convergence and doing accessibility right and so much more – you better get another cup of coffee and get comfy! This is going to be a RIDE!

Mars and Barsoom were popular this week, as was our announcement about The Gernsback Machine podcast. Not to mention – have you seen how many foreign language posts are often amongst our most read? That’s pretty cool!

Lots of fanews this ish! Forrest J. Ackerman, Fan Histories, Jules Feiffer, Wiscon program books; also, robots, robots and more robots, Stranger Things, Walter Cronkite and more

Trump teases “forever president”; inside TX migrant center for kids; Robert J Sawyer, Jo Walton, Kimberly Unger, Jack Clemons, Gahan Wilson, Allen Steele, Irene Gallo, giant squids (NOT in space), Star Trek wins debate with Star Wars and oh, So. Much. More