Kimono variant of Venom, with the creature wrapped in a gray, yellow and gold kimono-style garment.Here are some downloadable datasets from NOAA.

File770 has an article about new Marvel variant covers which features the brand’s heroes in traditional Japanese clothing. I don’t know what I think about all of them, but Venom in a kimono is eye-catching.

Locus’s always-useful Recommended Reading list is out.

I’m getting ready to read Opacity by Sofia Samatar, so this article in Reactor about reading writing about writing was timely and interesting.

More fallout from the sexual abuse allegations against Neil Gaiman, as Dark Horse Comics cancels several of the author’s projects.

The Library Journal provides a list of new SFF released due this month. I hardly recognized any of these.

Where are they now? Who are “they?” The actors of the original Transformers movie. Where? Entertainment Weekly fills you in on that.

Nerds of a Feather review the adaptation of Silo.

Rebecca Lee Crumper was the first black woman doctor in the USA, and one of the first women doctors.

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  • Marion Deeds

    Marion Deeds, with us since March, 2011, is the author of the fantasy novella ALUMINUM LEAVES. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies BEYOND THE STARS, THE WAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, STRANGE CALIFORNIA, and in Podcastle, The Noyo River Review, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She’s retired from 35 years in county government, and spends some of her free time volunteering at a second-hand bookstore in her home town.

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