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Have a free novelette by Mary Robinette Kowal called The Lady Astronaut of Mars.

The pitfalls of the omniscient evil mastermind are set out cogently by Alyssa over at Think Progress.

Want some beautiful animal photography? Check out this post over at Bright Strange ThingsHuh. I grew up just up the hill from a dairy farm, and yet apparently all ( Read more... )

I am disappointed I shall have to wait until October to read Martha Wells' new Star Wars novel, because how badass does that look? Wicked badass.

This also looks hella fun. Gotta love Helen Mirren kicking ass and taking names.

I generally don't like to link to GQ, but these are some compelling stories by American women who have seen combat.

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A little bit of sci-fi geekery: James Nicoll shows why throwing rocks at Earth from the Moon is less of a threat than you think.

For those who like this sort of thing, Domenika Marzione is writing Avengers gen. Second part here, since she doesn't have a tag for it.

XKCD, man. Getting kind of complicated...

I don't quite understand why Xena: ( Read more... )

Linked for later reading: the unreliability of eyewitness testimony.

The Mary Sue has some cool images of superheroes photobombing history.

And The Big Picture shows us bicycles all over the world.

Brain Pickings gives us an overview of two hundred years of presidential campaign posters.

Via the Horde: a P.G. Wodehouse quote generator. What ( Read more... )