Son of a bitch!

5 SFF books about dogs

Thanx to Tor.com.

Victim-Blaming, as Ever

Approximately 90% of the people with one vote each who breathed a sigh of desperate relief that they won’t have to be governed by an intelligent woman are white, but let’s blame the Black Biden voters [The Root; you don’t have to click on “I’ve [you should pardon the expression] whitelisted.”]

Earl Kemp (1929-2020)

Earl was a smutmonger and a science-fiction fan. (What’s not to like?) He navigated the morass of laws against Bad Words that my cohort grew up with and wound up spending time in jail for his part in publishing an illustrated version of the President’s Commission Report on the subject just as victory was in sight. He published the famous symposium on Who Killed Science Fiction? back in the day, and in more recent years did a delightful zine of smut & fandom memories that I was pleased and proud to contribute to. He died at his computer.