A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Subscribe to Clarkesworld Magazine

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

Listening to @wilwheaton.net’s Storytime podcast read of Andrea Chapela’s “As One Listens to the Rain” was especially cool after visiting Mexico City in March. I think it conjured last night’s lighting storm that shook the sleeping house.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

nature.com

This January we are inhabitants of the audacious snowy last paragraph of James Joyce's "The Dead."

So grateful to be an Ohio Arts Council Grant Recipient this year, and to have programs like this in Ohio. (oac.ohio.gov/home/news-an...)

Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi? by Matthew Claxton www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fict...

Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?

The old mode of science fiction is disappearing. What's replacing it?

typebarmagazine.com

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Neil PollyTicks 🦜@neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

Get through corn sweat season only to enter sweat bee season.

Deleting “thus” is never a mistake. Go for it.

Just heard we lost a typography legend. RIP Jim Parkinson, who designed your favorite news nameplate. Oh, and the Rolling Stone logo.

@justinwigard.bsky.social‬ speaks with ‪@alinapete.bsky.social‬ about their recent anthologies, Indiginerds and Weregeek! muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic... @projectmuse.bsky.social #EisnerAwards‬‬ #IndigenousStudies #storytelling #IndigenousHistory #comics #IndigenousAuthors #RepresentationMatters

And congratulations to Daniel Worden and INKS for these Comics Studies Society nods! comicsstudies.org/uncategorize... @kristener.bsky.social @etaylor.bsky.social

Every week I say to myself that there never has been a better time to rewatch Brazil and then the next week happens

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk .

media.tenor.com

Just tried to explain what a skate key was to a 10 year old. Did not go well.

I thought the movie with Michelle Williams that could make me weep the most was Wendy and Lucy but I just caught up on Manchester by the Sea.

Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre

Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and ...

ohiostatepress.org

What will they put on at the Kennedy Center next season? Pajama Game but whole union gets fired instead of 7 1/2 cent raise?

Who knows if I would have arrived at the editorializing-over-NPR-hosts quite so prematurely on another timeline? Nevertheless, here we are.

When a cat comes out of a room with a real “my work here is done” energy.

Do you know a UK-based wheelchair user who works in a lab and would be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/new...

@taffyakner.bsky.social bringing The Secret Garden into #longislandcompromise was the NYC suburban teen ‘90s touchstone callback I didn’t know I needed.

Taking some time for mountaintops and towers.