Bill Willingham, creator of beloved comic series "Fables," has released the franchise into the public domain, citing a breakdown in his relationship with DC Comics. Here's the full statement that he posted on his Substack, in which he said of DC: " I gave them years to do the right thing. I tried to reason with them, but you can’t reason with the unreasonable."
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AI-generated books on Amazon now have the potential to kill people, as they've moved into the realm of mushroom foraging. Guides have popped up like, well, mushrooms, packed with information that makes no sense and could easily be dangerous, illustrated with structures that are "the mycological equivalent of a picture of a hot blond with six fingers and too many teeth," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's more.
A famous story about the Superman radio show of the 1940s is that it prevented a postwar revival of the Klu Klux Klan because of a storyline in which Superman investigated & defeated a Klan-lookalike gang. This story was widely popular and by portraying the Klan unfavourably, is supposed to have stemmed their growing membership. SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN is a YA graphic adaptation of the story, written by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Gurihiru. (1/2)
I just finished Ursula LeGuin’s Lathe of Heaven - it’s just fantastic. And her writing … “the endless warm drizzle of spring - the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it” ❤️ 1971. We have known for a long time what we’re doing. #amreading#bookstodon#LeGuin
One is revered as a classic of American #literature, the other is largely forgotten.
Ursula Parrott’s biographer got interested when she discovered that F. Scott Fitzgerald had at one point been hired to write the screenplay of Parrot’s “Infidelity”. Why would the most famous author of the Jazz Age be hired to adapt a story from a mostly unknown writer?
long shot, but what the heck i’ll put this out into the world:
if you work for an outlet or publication that’s pulling together an end-of-year book list, i’d love to get you a review copy of YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION for consideration. let me know!
I'm in this huge CYBERPUNK book, along with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic and lots more.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk arrives September 26. Editor Jared Shurin tells File 770, “As with any attempt at a definitive collection, I suspect (and hope) it will provoke conversation!”
At over a thousand pages it is the largest anthology of the genre, with authors from over two dozen countries. #bookstodon#sff#scifi#books
Didn't intend to go on a Japanese people writing about the significance of mundane work reading binge but ended up reading Kikuko Tsumura's No Such Thing As An Easy Job and Shoji Morimoto's Rental Person Who Does Nothing back to back.
No Such Thing As An Easy Job is a magic realism tinged novel about a burned out women who takes the easiest sounding temp jobs she can find only to have a series of unsettling things keep happening and to keep meeting people wrestling with work and belonging. Rental Person Who Does Nothing is a memoir of what happened to a guy who's boss told him he didn't contribute anything worthwhile who wondered if doing nothing could in fact be useful. He offered online to just be present with people and found himself sitting with people while they studied, accompanying people to turn in their divorce papers, going with people to restaurants they were nervous about going alone to and a myriad of other encounters where his technically doing nothing actually achieved a lot for people.
Both are so interesting for the way they explore from different but complimentary angles the ways that our societies often don't really have a clear sense of what makes for meaningful contributions, how all work paid or otherwise is complex and that there's ways of being in the world that don't have to be driven by money and status. I recommend them both.
Menschen, der Verlag braucht Soli, mir zieht gerade eine Steuernachzahlung das letzte bisschen Boden weg. Bitte gönnt euch, wenn ihr noch ein paar Euro locker habt, was im Verlagsshop und macht auf allen Plattformen Werbung. Würden mehr Menschen etwas vom Frohmann Verlag mitbekommen, könnte er vermutlich ohne solche Hilferufe existieren – das ewige Indieproblem.
I need your help #bookstodon. One of the classes I'm taking at the graduate level this semester is Religion & Science Fiction. I read more fantasy, and would like to do my research paper on something that's not obvious (like ST/BS5/Matrix/etc.) & I'd love to use more modern sf rather than the golden age classics.
Anyone have any interesting ideas for my research paper on regarding the intersection of religion and science fiction?
"The hermit crab is not, in fact, hermetical: they're sociable, often climbing on top of one another to sleep in a great pile. When a crab comes across a new shell that turns out to be too big, it waits nearby until another crab comes to inspect it. If it's too small for a second crab, they hold claws and form a queue until a crab who fits it arrives, then the next crab in line claims the newly-housed crab's shell ... "
from 'The Golden Mole', by Katherine Rundell #Crabs#Nature#Bookstodon