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Science Fiction & Fantasy   An Interview with Elly Bangs — by Arley Sorg — Elly Bangs was born in Seattle and lived there nearly her whole life. She earned a BA in creative writing from The Evergreen State College, roughly sixty miles away. She’s primarily worked in small nonprofit organizations, “usually in a role that combines doing all their paperwork with building their websites and databases. Right now I’m half the IT department at a local museum.” Bangs has been writing stori...

Science Fiction & Fantasy      Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 173 - History in Pieces by Beth Goder [14:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (19104) Website Note: Comments containing name-calling, personal attacks, threats, or other abusive content will be edited or deleted. All comments must be directly related to the story. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Tell a friend, share this on:

There’s a point early on in Oasis, one of the contenders in Amazon’s new pilot season, which grounds the episode perfectly: Peter Leigh, a recently widowed priest with some serious concerns about his future in the church, has been functionally drafted onto the next mission to Oasis, the first interstellar colony. He has nothing left on Earth, so he agrees to go. The technology that propels him into orbit is very clearly slightly modified Russian boosters. There’s the same tapered design,...

HarperCollins has joined the other major publishers in raising starting salaries. They made an agreement with their union to increase starting salaries to $45,000 a year for staff in New York NY and San Francisco CA, starting January 18, 2021. The following three sal­ary tiers will also be increased commensurately. “This decision is part of the company’s ongoing review of industry data on salaries in order to remain competitive.” About half the union mem­bership will receive pay increas...

The Mathematics of Fairyland If you had a warp drive, it would be easy. The mathematics are strange the way ley lines are strange, invisible yet divinable. You’ve pulled your way up sterner mountains, fingertip by fingertip. You’ve already compensated for stellar motion, spacetime curvature, hyperspatial congruences. You’ve scratched out hundreds of equations in cold blue hyacinth ink and piled them away in the knitted stocking under your bed, where only Berenice would think to look. Equa...

Time now. and i dont think hes surprised by any of whats going on. >> james, whats your take on this whole thing? i mean, it appears that whitaker could remain as acting attorney general for something like 210 days. thats like 7 months. i mean, do you think that its a real possibility that mueller would wrap this whole thing up while whitakers still in charge? >> i do think theres a chance its going to be wrapped up. obviously, its good form to stay away from dropping any bombs on this investiga...

He was planning to ship it out today, saying he wants it to be useful if not now in the future. he said its obviously not going to be needed at this juncture in time, but he says it could be used an escape pod in space. more to come on that story. >> props to the kid who was helpful in testing that. i personally would have been terrified to have gotten into that thing. in our next hour professor allen dershowitz joins us live as the presidents legal strategy shifts yet again. neutrogena® ultra ...

Circumstances is trying to help. >> we want to show you this video elon musk shared just a few hours ago. but essentially hes putting together a prototype using the liquid oxygen tank of what is full kn rocket hull. we saw someone coming out today in an l.a. high school pool. it was going to create a kidicized submarine that was light enough to be carried by two divers. and he actually got ferrell time feedback from divers in thailand to see if they could do it. he was planning to ship it out to...

Online. >> remarkable. i have to go to this one. they have really good comedians and they are continuing the comedy business offering 10,000-dollar, quote, internet escape? >> sometimes you need to get away from it all. on kfcs online store on cybermonday they are offering internet escape pod, $10,000, a real steal there, you can go inside the kfc pot with colonel sanders giving you a hug and get away from the internet, your work phone, whatever you need to escape from. >> i love the way in the ...

Go ahead and vote for trump. i have lots of other interesting thins that i could be doing, and if you dont want the kind of presidency that i am offering, then -- it is off message and reflective of the fact that he is surprised by how badly he is doing, and he does not understand it, and does not understand the flirtation with donald trump from the republican e electorate. >> and betsy, i want to ask you about the fund-raising the headliner shall we say for jeb bush this week is going to be his...