Margarita in a cocktail glassMarshal Zeringue has several blogs, and one of them is the “Page 69 Test.” The premise is this; would a reader, opening a book at random and reading page 69, have an understanding of what the book’s about? Interesting test! Here’s a recent column.

File 770 offers an excerpt from Tear Down the Throne by Jennifer Estep.

J.D. Evans’s Reign and Ruin is the winner of the Seventh Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off , in what I’d describe as a photo finish (just one-tenth of a point ahead of the runner-up).

ChiCon 8 has updated its membership numbers.

Nerds of a Feather reviewed Holly Black’s latest, Book of Night.

CNN Style provides a photo roundup from Monday’s Met Gala event. This year’s theme was “The Gilded Age, an Anthology of Fashion,” and as you will see, stars were faithful to the styles of the 1880s-1910s. Hah! Just kidding—no, they weren’t.

Here’s a ten year old article from Nature about SFF’s “Radium Age.”

Game development company Bungie has failed in its copyright infringement case against Aimjunkies, a “game cheat” site. Among other things, the judge states that while Bungie alleges copyright infringement, they provided no substantive evidence.

Tomorrow is May fifth, also known as Cinco de Mayo, so here is a video on how to make a perfect margarita from a woman in Australia. And I don’t think the orange liqueur really “rested in battle.”

Atlas Obscura is now offering puzzles on Mondays, starting with this one.

Gizmodo reviewed Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. Warning, this review contains a big spoiler.

 

 

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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.