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.
There were two interesting articles about publishing that I ran across, the first via a link in the second: No…
My pleasure, Robin! And yes, it surely is some kind of an experience, to be sure....
Thanks for the solution to a mystery many decades old. One of my favourite novels, this. Hilariously funny, completely unpredictable,…
Thank you. I’m all caught up. Back to reading Crimson Embers.
Enjoyed your review. I’m reading A War in Crimson Embers and am having the hardest time reminding myself where everybody…