WWWednesday: March 26, 2025

Echobird Press is accepting submissions for an anthology of hopeful science fiction stories. The window closes May 31, 2025. This is an opportunity for writers, and it’s very important for us to have hope, so I will include this link more than once before the deadline.

One of the fantasy’s genre most innovative and most “American” series is Alex Bledsoe’s TUFA series, and Nerds of a Feather talks about it here.

John Scalzi and Mary Robinette Kowal participated at an event in Columbus, Ohio; she for her newest LADY ASTRONAUT book, he for When the Moon Hits Your Eye. In other news, yes, Robinette Kowal has a new book out, The Martian Contingency.

Reactor offers five SFF novels about resistance movements, and I don’t mean stretches with elastic bands.

File 770 shared a link to RE Burke’s story. RE “Becky” Burke, well-known comic artist, has finally been released from ICE detention and returned to the United Kingdom. The Visa mix up that landed her handcuffed and jailed in the USA came from the fact that she was staying with host families while in the USA, in exchange for chores and housework, and thus should have had a “work visa.”

Am I reading this right? NASA hasn’t changed the make-up of its Artemis crew, right? They’re just not going to call one of them a woman, and one of them a person of color. Is that it?

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has a new director, who expected to place all employees on administrative leave this week. The institute’s grant funding has already been slashed.

This is a fun article about cover art and art direction.

They had me at the spiral staircase image, but this article sures makes the Slovenian capital a tempting tourist visit!

And…spring cocktails.