Oliver K. Langmead shares six books with Nerds of a Feather, including a collaboration between China Mieville and… Keanu Reeves, an adaptation of Reeves’s comic. Interesting.
Haruki Murakami has a new book coming out in November, The City and its Uncertain Walls.
Angry Robot has opened its submission window and is utilizing an AI sorting program. They have providing an FAQ page and are trying to get ahead of any concerns writers might have. (Thanks to File770.)
Reactor announced that Tor will be publishing a new “Gatsby” themed novella from Nghi Vo. I, for one, am thrilled!
Also in Reactor, Jo Walton discusses what she read during the month of March.
Ingram’s email to a group of indie presses left orphaned when their service provider, SPD, shuttered abruptly, has stirred up concern. Writers have been given a short timeframe to contact the book distributor about where to send titles, prompting more questions than action.
For those of you who aren’t done with “Dune, the movies,” Dune Messiah has been approved for the Denis Villanueve treatment.
Some eclipse watchers caught a glimpse of the reddish dots around the edge of the moon, which are called prominences. This Scientific American article explains them.
I stole the eclipse image from something my friend Matt Fleming posted on Facebook. Here in California, we only had about a 20% eclipse.
I live in Canada, in an area that saw totality in this eclipse. The red prominences were so visible that I was struck by the thought that rather than a ‘diamond’ ring it resembled a ruby one. Small, but distinctly and intensely red. Then the ‘diamond’ emerged and was overwhelming in its size and intensity. It was certainly a unique experience.
That sounds beautiful and strange. In the best possible way!