Jurassic Park. Image from The Mary Sue
In Denmark, helmets have always been a good idea.
Many people I know deeply love the original Jurassic Park film. So does The Mary Sue, which celebrates the film’s birthday, calling it the perfect movie.
At Tor.com, L.T. Lukens reminds us of five books that sail the oceans to reap adventure.
Also from Tor.com, Jo Walton’s Reading List column does double-duty because she missed a month. Even before you get to the books, this column is wonderful!
Louise Erdrich’s novel The Night Watchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Daniel Marcus and Laura Blackwell started Story Hour early in lockdown, as a way to combat the isolation and boredom. Nearly every session has at least two writers reading their work.
Syfy Wire shares an excerpt from Daniel Jose Older’s Star Wars novel Race to Crashpoint Tower.
North American Long Tailed Weasel. Image by Marion Deeds
The children’s book website We Need Diverse Books announced it will no longer use the term Own Voices. The phrase, developed as a hashtag in 2015, does not accomplish what WNDB wants it to do for them. Instead, they will describe the book in the specific terms the author uses.
The Eisner nominations have been announced.
The A.V. Club ranks the recent crop of Jeopardy guest-hosts, from worst to best.
Nnedi Okorafor announced that she has a professorship in the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University. (H/T to File 770.)
Syfy Wire shares some artwork from J. Michael Straczynski’s upcoming comic, Telepaths. (Thanks to File 770.)
Bad Astronomy shares images and thoughts about the NGC:4394 Galaxy.
Adobe wants to share its sun-sign logos with you. They’re pretty cute.
The book that wouldn't burn by Mark Lawrence and a reread of the murderbot diaries.
Have not read Turow's fiction but his book One-L, describing the entry level law school experience and featuring the prifessor…
Scott Turow's second book, "The Burden of Proof", is a semi-sequel to "Presumed Innocent". The psychological darkness of the situations…
I've been reading The Everything Learning Russian book to help with my novel set in Russia. The structure of the…
In the first part of the graphic novel series "Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise", we see that after…