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M3: Me Me Monday

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Welcome to ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more

DC Comics: A Cinematic Retrospective

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From SF Signal: As pointed out by The Awesomer, calling the following video a retrospective of DC Comics’ superhero films is a bit of a misnomer when two of the films — Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad — have yet to be released, but the video does succeed in encapsulating what a poor job Hollywood did with DC Comics properties. I mean, I liked Watchmen and The Dark Knight is probably in my list of Top 10 Films, but the rest? I wouldn’t mind if I never, ever saw any Green Lantern footage again. And, being a Moviegoer of … Read more

Only Trump Can Save Space Travel!!!!

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It’s one of the more absurd things I have seen this campaign season, and it’s been an embarrassment of absurdity – elect Trump so we can get off planet and have life extension technologies. Seriously???: Alex Jones today went on one of his trademark screaming rants in which he declared that Satan is trying stop humanity achieving space travel and only Donald Trump can stop him. Right Wing Watch has some of the transcript: It’s the Devil. The churches aren’t going to tell you. It is an alien force, not of this world, attacking this world like the Bible and … Read more

“2001” Promo Looks at Life in The Future

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Even when it released in 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey was a big deal. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke envisioned a future that was wholly believeable and scientifcially accurate. Here’s a promotional documentary filmed around the time of the film’s release. OMG I LOVE that “laptop” computer. Hit the link for the video! http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2016/03/2001-space-odyssey-seen-short-documentary-1960s/

For Writers: The Fermi Paradox

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Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: Has anyone seen Geoffrey Landis’ intriguing answer to the Fermi Paradox? If even a very small fraction of the hundred billion stars in the galaxy are home to technological civilizations which colonize over interstellar distances, the entire galaxy should be completely colonized in a few million years. The absence of such extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth is the Fermi Paradox. You can find Landis’s arguments here. In a nutshell, though, why haven’t we found noisy galactic neighbors? Join the chat

Mark C. Jerng on Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany

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Stories for Chip : A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany

PICKING UP Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, one is inevitably drawn to read for Delany. The genre of the tribute anthology — this one collecting 33 pieces of fiction and nonfiction (a remarkable 24 of which were written originally for this volume) in order to celebrate the achievement, influence, and genius of Samuel R. Delany — invites a search for the author and his influence. What themes or subject matter from Delany’s rich and varied oeuvre might we see referenced or reimagined in the collection? What echoes of language, style, or description might be heard? We … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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Welcome to ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more

Will There Be Lesbian Romance in the New Ghostbusters Film?

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Four of the funniest people in the industry, full stop, star in the film: Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy and Kate McKinnon. There appears to be some flirting with McKinnon’s edgy, short-haired, slightly off-kilter character, Jillian Holtzmann, and Wiig’s straight-laced scientist Erin Gilbert… Full story from Gay Star News

For Writers: Page Sharing

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Scott Page

We had a great session yesterday with Naomi from Dreamspinner on social media for writers. If you missed it, you can find the transcript here: https://www.queerscifi.com/interviews/social-media-with-naomi-grant/ One of the things that came up was the effectiveness of using targeted FB ads. Essentially, by spending $5-$15 a month, you can boost visits to your FB page – even this small amount has a “halo” effect, bringing more traffic to your page in general, as FB rewards you for spending money in their ecosystem. Plus these ads can be targeted very specifically – for instance, you could choose to have them shown … Read more