New story, annotated: https://nitter.gq/t.co/7h2cGPFspG
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Yes, there’s an adorable new kitten in the house but Billy is still the King of #caturday.
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FLOW is a major animation achievement. It’s a luminous, immersive journey with no dialogue about a group of animals helping each other survive in a world with no humans. Feels lyrical and elemental at once. Incredible what director Gints Zilbalodis accomplished with a small team.
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I don’t know why or how long it will last, but @librofm has the preorder of the audiobook of my debut novel on sale for just SIX BUCKS!
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Sister ship @NASAVoyager 1 is 22h 33m 55s of light travel time from Earth, or 24,354,000,000 km / 15,133,000,000 miles / 162.79 AU (2024:060:120000:1L)
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Reading for the Nebulas, Hugos, and other award nominations?
Please consider #FIYAHLitMag! Here's a list of what we've done this past year:
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Your order was delivered… to the Moon! 📦
@Int_Machines' uncrewed lunar lander landed at 6:23pm ET (2323 UTC), bringing NASA science to the Moon's surface. These instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon under #Artemis.
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Science fantasy with queer Greeks in space from me this week. Carnivorous flowers, meek horses, and questionable oracular utterances: "Tell the King" @BCSmagazine
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Woo! "For Every Bee, a Hive," my @Analog_SF #shortstory about Space Crew Found Families & human-centered #neurotechnology, is out of exclusivity - so I can share the text with y'all at last!
(& note this counts as a 2023 story for Nebula nominations!)
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Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in space in 1992. She has earned many titles during her vibrant scientific career: engineer, doctor, Peace Corps officer, teacher, and astronaut. #BlackHistoryMonth
ALT Mae Jemison poses for a portrait shot while wearing a spacesuit and holding the helmet in her hands.
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ALA offices are closed in observance of #PresidentsDay. Learn more about this country's Presidential Libraries and take time to explore them. archives.gov/presidential-li…
ALT Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of his library in Hyde Park, NY, on June 30, 1941. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Library)
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Yay for contributor copies (ordered a hardcover for my parents so they can feel fancy ☺️). My story “The Philosophical Quandaries of Meeting Your Doppelgänger in Moonshine City,” is in here (inspired by the Tokyo mega mall Sunshine City): frombeyondpress.com/product/…
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My dark sci-fi story "Arrivals at Hope Station Have Been Indefinitely Postponed" has been accepted by @StupefyingSF. It’s framed as an urgent announcement on an interdimensional travel platform.
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The very first Eleanor Roosevelt #BannedBooks Award Ceremony is Sat., Feb. 17, @fisherctrbard. ALA President @edrabinski will keynote the event honoring @judyblume, @halseanderson, @IamGMJohnson, @lxgino, Maia Kobabe, Mike Curato & Jelani Memory.
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Ready for a #sweepstakes? Just follow us, then retweet and like to enter for the chance to win an advanced copy of #TheSilverbloodPromise by James Logan! Hurry, before time runs out ⏰
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ALT The Silverblood Promise
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Here is our current Master List of 2024 writers conferences. Come join us at an event, and meet agents in person (or online one-on-one). Or consider sharing -- thanks. writingdayworkshops.com/even…
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My friend Cécile Cristofari has a story in the latest issue of @clarkesworld, and it is a beautiful thing - a highly original and poignant take on time travel.
You can read it for free here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/cri…
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"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." - Carl Sagan
On this day in 1990, Voyager 1 took the iconic Pale Blue Dot image.
ALT Pale Blue Dot image that shows Earth as a very small dot in a vertical color band.
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Good news! Application fee assistance is available for Clarion Workshop applicants who identify as being from an historically marginalized group. Partial assistance available for those who identify as financially marginalized. Please email us at [email protected] to learn more!
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I neglected to mention that Peter Schickele also composed the music for the 1972 cult science fiction film, Silent Running.
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Peter Schickele, composer & creator of P.D.Q. Bach, has died at age 88. Here is his performance on The Tonight Show of Variations on an Unusually Simple-Minded Theme, from 1987.
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