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Five Very Good Cat People in SF and Fantasy

One obvious way to improve humans is by combining them with cats.

https://reactormag.com/five-very-good-cat-people-in-sf-and-fantasy/

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Huh. Coming in November:

Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction of James Sallis.

Published over the six decades of Sallis’s storied career, the complete collection contains 154 stories, 12 of which are exclusive to this volume.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737507/bright-segments-the-complete-short-fiction-by-james-sallis/

nitpicking,
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@jdnicoll I've been reading SFF for over 50 years. I had never heard of James Sallis until just now.

jdnicoll, to random
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Night Lives: Nine Stories of the Dark Fantastic by Phyllis Eisenstein & Alex Eisenstein

In which a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories alerts me to a surprisingly common trope in Eisenstein's fiction.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/one-day

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association is pleased to announce that the 2024 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award will be presented posthumously to Jennell Jaquays at the 59th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards® ceremony on June 8, 2024.

https://www.sfwa.org/2024/05/29/announcing-the-2024-kate-wilhelm-solstice-award-recipient/

bedirthan,
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@jdnicoll @Alphastream this is great!

jdnicoll, to random
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Five Works of SF Inspired by Pseudoscience

Some good (or at least interesting) SF has been based on truly bonkers pseudoscience.

https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-sf-inspired-by-pseudoscience/

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Manshape by John Brunner

Why would a colony world of nihilistic jerks refuse the chance to be re-integrated with Earth society?

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/hello-again

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Alchemy and Academe edited by Anne McCaffrey

A anthology of original stories concerning themselves with transmutations, mental and elemental, alchemical and academic. Also, as close to England Swings SF as McCaffrey would ever produce.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/strange-alchemy

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You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera, volume 1) by Cat Rambo

A start-up restaurant's staff unexpectedly finds themselves eyeball deep in space pirates and not the bodacious variety.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/a-nourishing-thing

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A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

Jobless, with debts she cannot pay, a suicidal woman is astonished when she is informed she is a Magical Girl destined to save the world... if the 29-year-old can work out how to use her powers.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/whos-that-girl

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Looking for Classic SF by Women? Here Are Five Places to Start…

These collections and anthologies are invaluable resources, featuring often hard-to-find stories from the first half of the 20th century.

https://reactormag.com/looking-for-classic-sf-by-women-here-are-five-places-to-start/

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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Post-apocalyptic coming-of-age in theocratic Labrador.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/re-birth

wattevans,
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@nitpicking Really? I loved it. Probably more than I would now.

nitpicking,
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@wattevans Our tastes overlap, but are not the same. You like horror, for instance, and almost all of it leaves me cold.

jdnicoll, to random
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Unvaccinated child dies of easily preventable, highly contagious disease.

https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-sees-first-measles-death-in-more-than-a-decade-after-young-child-dies-1.6890989

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Ranking Science Fiction’s Most Dangerous Awards

A scientific survey of the relative heft, pointiness, and durability of SFF's most sought-after trophies.

https://reactormag.com/ranking-science-fictions-most-dangerous-awards/

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334 by Thomas M. Disch

An examination of one New York community in the unimaginably distant year of TWO! THOUSAND! TWENTY-FIVE!

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/so-hard-to-find

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Going to run an intro RuneQuest adventure out of the Starter Box. Promised myself not to go into the usual paralyzing Glorantha lore spiral. Just using the box.

Well, and maybe the (really badly packaged) GM pack. And the Bestiary. Weapons & Equipment. But that's it.

jdnicoll,
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@nitpicking I did!

As I think I actually only understand half of what I need to, I think running under me would be frustrating.

nitpicking,
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@jdnicoll I mean, it's literally based on the "Basic Roleplaying" system. It isn't massively complex, and you can just skip a lot of the complexity. Glorantha is amazingly complicated, but not RQ. The original TTRPG DragonQuest, now that was complex.

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