Author: Marion Deeds

Since the CDC cannot release information about the avian flu and other contagious diseases, the American Medical Association is providing updates. Here is their Youtube channel.

Reactor is offering new fiction by Elizabeth Bear.

Nerds of a Feather reviews Gareth Powell’s latest.

Here’s an interesting article about one of the things NOAA does.

The U.K. Guardian shares fantastical sketches by Victor Hugo.

File770 provides the Australian Romance Award short list.

Uncanny Magazine launches issue 63 on March 4, 2025.

The Bram Stoker final ballot has been released. I thought I’d been reading a lot of horror lately but I recognize almost none of these.

The NAACP Image awards were announced last weekend, with several of genre interest, including Wicked.

File 770 shared a New York Times link on faux books. Neat photos! (The link bypasses the paywall.)

“You already have three strikes against you,” Raye Montague’s mother told her.

Nationally, scientists are gathering to determine how to publish the comprehensive Nature Assessment report, which was ready for publication earlier this month before the current administration stalled it.

The U.K. Guardian reports that Julianne Moore’s kids’ book Freckleface Strawberry, has been included in a wave of books censored due to an executive order signed by the president. The order bans certain books banned during a “compliance review” in schools that serve children of military families. The book is about a little girl who hates her freckles,

This American Medical Association site is a good resource for information on avian flu. Currently at least three reports scheduled for publication by the CDC are being stalled by the administration, and the Centers’ most recent weekly report had avian flu data removed from it.

Tongayi Charisa (Crispin) and Alyssa Jirells (Moira) talk about their characters in Mayfair Witches, Season Two, on AMC. Variety has some images from the new season.

Reactor offered a nice column on why we need fantasy forests.