Pieces I want to read, have just read, or am reading again:
Writing Stuff:
- William Gibson: the man who saw tomorrow
- David Mack on Why we must strive for diversity in SF/F
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction Editors Speak :: With Neil Clarke (editor of Clarkesworld magazine), Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (editors of the Long Hidden anthology), Alex Shvartsman (editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects anthology series), Brian White (editor of Fireside magazine) and Margot Atwell (moderator and publishing community manager at Kickstarter).
- Easy on the Hooptedoodle :: Classic Recipe for Authorial Invisibility, from the late, lamented Elmore Leonard.
Random Stuff:
- Iceland volcano: area north of Bardarbunga evacuated :: a.k.a. Volcano in Iceland No Longer Content to just Sit There and Look Pretty
- Mount Everest in 3D :: Because I don’t know about you but I’m never going up there in person. This visualization was built after the deaths of 16 Nepalese sherpas in April of this year.
- Watch Americans Try Famous Canadian Snack Foods :: Because hee hee hee hee! Also, sweet potato poutine is the bomb. Just saying.
- Why Vegetables Get Freakish In The Land Of The Midnight Sun :: Dang, a 138-pound cabbage. Everything really is bigger up there.
- Cities causing genetic changes in plants, animals :: Next stop, Sewer Godzilla. You heard it here first!
J.R. Johnson 