WWWednesday: February 26, 2025

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. “You’re female, you’re black and you have a southern segregated school education. But you can be anything you want, as long as you’re educated.” Montague took her mother at her word and became the first woman to design a US naval warship. In 1972, she was awarded the Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

The Texas measles outbreak has grown to 90 people, 51 of them children. The majority of victims are either reported as unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown.

Last week’s “List of Five…” in Reactor had a title I couldn’t resist: Five books that count on plot-facilitating ignorance on the part of the characters.

Nerds of a Feather reviews Premee Mohamad’s latest story collection, One Message Remains.

The Indiana legislature has removed funding for the Imagination Library a program started by Dolly Parton that provides one free book per month to children from birth to age five, from this year’s budget. With the adoption of the program several years ago, Indiana saw its literacy rating rise from 19^th nationally to 6^th.