Excerpt: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise…
Maine Coast – PoetryNow
Lillian Yvonne Bertram meditates on conflicted romantic feelings during a summer spent in Maine. {listen}
Company – PoetryNow
Emily Hunt documents her time working at a greenhouse for an online flower seller. {listen} luxury feudalism is still feudalism
Ash Weed – PoetryNow
Laura Marie Marciano describes the feeling of freedom after closing a chapter in one’s life. {listen}
Man tries to claim the Nazis were socialist and gets shut down by a history teacher
'Nazi' is the short name. The full name for the 'Nazi' party was the "National Socialist German Workers' Party" ("Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" in German). The fact that the far-right party…
Martha Wells, “Rogue Protocol: The Murderbot Diaries”
Wells has incorporated aspects of herself in Murderbot, a fact that resonates with readers. “I have some problems with anxiety and OCD and I’ve put those into the character… and…
Japan’s youngest female mayor takes on its oldest all-male sport
One of the most interesting parts of this story is how the city where this woman is mayor and cities where other women are mayors in Japan have higher birth…
Drabblecast 384 – The Cats of Ulthar
I’ve been getting into fiction podcasts lately and one I really love is Drabblecast. Check out this episode.
A Japanese medical university lowered women’s test scores because it was a “necessary evil”
It’s always a meritocracy until a man doesn’t get the job.Instead the system is rigged for mediocrity …Japanese media reports said today (Aug. 2) that the university had since 2011…