In honor of International Women’s Day, the image is of writer, teacher and activist Toni Morrison receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
Nerds of a Feather announces editorial changes as Arturo Serrano, Roseanne Pendlebury and Paul Weimer join their editorial crew. Adri Joy and Joe Sherry move to Senior Editor staff.
On Whatever, John Scalzi discusses a positive use for AI—photography.
Publishers Weekly puts comic book sales under its business-themed microscope.
SWFA announced the 2023 Nebula Award finalists.
Thanks to Paul Connelly for this link to a discussion of book blurbs. “A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimony,” indeed.
There are plenty of new science fiction releases in March, and Tor.com wants to share them.
Leah Schnelbach shares 11 lessons she learned from watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Some are profound.
Um–I may be reading this wrong, or Google translate may be missing nuance, but this is from the Chengdu WorldCon site, describing the venue, the Chengdu Science Museum (that name is tentative.) It sounds like completion on the construction of the venue is incomplete but expected to be completed before WorldCon, rescheduled to October.
The town of Moffat in Scotland instituted “dark sky weeks” for astronomical purposes, but the results have spread far beyond seeing the night sky.
Oh, boy! They found a formerly hidden corridor in the Great Pyramid at Giza! Except “jumping off point” brings to mind many cheesy Indiana-Jones-lite action movies.
What an intriguing exploration of Edwige Fenech's role in giallo films! I appreciate how you highlighted her unique blend of…
Hahaha! You might like the one "Shocktober" scene near the end!
For some strange reason, I get the feeling I might like this one! 😁
Wow, 20 dollars? That seems a lot for a 100-or-so-page book, but most of my novellas have come via ARCs…
I might say "formulaic" actually.