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The Indiana Author Awards have announced the 2024 shortlist. The awards “celebrate the best books by Indiana authors written in eight different categories and published during the previous two years.” Works of genre interest follow. Fiction. Booth, Karen Joy Fowler (Putnam) The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty (Knopf) Genre.

2024 Indiana Authors Award Shortlist

The 2024 Aurora Awards winners for the best SF and fantasy by Canadians have been announced. WINNER: The Valkyrie, Kate Heartfield (HarperVoyager) Bad Cree, Jessica Johns (HarperCollins Canada) Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) Moon of the Turning Leaves, Waubgeshig Rice (Random House Canada) The Marigold, Andrew F. Sullivan (ECW)

2024 Aurora Awards Winners

Winners for the 2023 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Awards and the 38th Asimov’s Readers’ Awards, have been announced, with many finalists available to read online. Analog Science Fiction and Fact Analytical Laboratory Award Winners. WINNER: “Poison“, Frank Wu & Jay Werkheiser (5-6/23) “To Fight the Colossus“,...

2023 Analog AnLab and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Winners

Alabama State

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The World Around Jae and Beyond

Disclosure: State of Alabama-based writer. This article is a work from cited sources for informational purposes and is used with permission. No affiliate links are included. Alabamians who watch various YouTube channels may have come across The Cussing Pastor Thaddeus Matthews' channel, run by Pastor Thaddeus Matthews. Over the years, he has gained more than 77,000 YouTube followers and 48,000 Facebook followers speaking to his followers about everyday life battles while cursing, creating a lot of controversy on the Internet.

'The Cussing Pastor' Thaddeus Matthews' Wife Exposes His Lifestyle Online After Leaving

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It's been eight years since former TV child star Sawyer Sweeten, best known from Everybody Loves Raymond, died tragically by suicide at only 19 years old. Sawyer Sweeten, his twin brother Sullivan Sweeten, and their older sister Madylin, played Ray Romano's TV children on Everybody Loves Raymond, the Emmy-winning sitcom that originally aired on CBS 1996 to 2005.

The Tragic Suicide of Former TV Child Star Sawyer Sweeten ('Everybody Loves Raymond'): 9 Years Later

Soaps In Depth

Lauren B. Martin Issues Statement on Esta TerBlanche Photo Mix-Up

Asunder took me by storm. I ended up falling in love with the characters. It’s a world of gods, deaths, and sacrifice. But it’s also about friendship, love, and unlikely alliances. Keep reading this book review of Asunder for my full thoughts. Summary. We choose our own gods...

Review: Asunder by Kerstin Hall

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

Lake of Darkness , Adam Roberts (Gollancz 978-1399617673, hardcover, 320pp, £22.00) July 2024. The newest novel from Adam Roberts—purveyor of endless unrepeating and unduplicatable narratives—is a utopian metaphysical suspense/thriller space opera—which also happens to be a commentary, I think, on progressive culture and progressive SF. Now, if you imagine that’s an ill-assorted congeries of tropes and styles and themes, you are underestimating the powers of Mr. Roberts. He weaves every strand into a beautiful organic tapestry, as if we were watching a balletically graceful collaboration between Stephen King, James Blish, Iain Banks and Kim Stanley Robinson.

Paul Di Filippo Reviews Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts

(Tor 9780765382924, $27.99, 272pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 08/13/2024) Near-future whodunit mystery novel. A group of employees and their CEO, celebrating the sale of their remarkable emotion-mapping-AI-algorithm, crash onto a not-quite-deserted tropical island. The survivors find a beautiful, fully-stocked private palace, with all the latest technological updates (though one without connection to the outside world). The house, however, has more secrets than anyone might have guessed, and a much darker reason for having been built and left behind.

New Books, 13 August 2024

Los Angeles County, CA

[Note: The quotes and commentary that appear in this article are from an interview the author conducted with David White in 1989.]. Actor David White, who died in 1991, found great success for his best-known and likable performance as the devious advertising executive Larry Tate on the classic TV sitcom,Bewitched (ABC, 1964-1972).

'Bewitched' Actor David White Forever Mourned the Tragic Pan Am/Lockerbie Death of His Son

The Week

Things didn't go as planned, but technology can still unleash creativity

Yes, I miss the dotcom era

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Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas, a $1.35 billion behemoth of the sea, has recently been introduced to the world since its maiden voyage on July 19th. The ship, boasting nearly 5,700 passengers and a crew of over 2,200, offers an array of amenities designed to cater to multi-generational families on shorter 3- and 4-day itineraries.

Cruise Passengers Not Happy About Feature on World's Newest Mega Ship

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The Current GA

Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of employees and an overall drop in the work force .

Expert: Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – picture is unsettling

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Massachusetts State

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Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, is still looking for a forever home for an adorable six-year-old French bulldog named Joannie. The local animal rescue explains: “Joannie was found as a stray extremely emaciated and less than half her current weight now. She was missing fur on her body, face and ears. She has been nursed back to health and is doing wonderfully. While her age and exact history is unknown, it is clear she has mothered more than enough litters in her short lifetime.”

Meet The "Extreme Snuggler" French Bulldog Still Looking For Love

Sandy Paws Rescue Inc., a foster-based rescue in Massachusetts, has recently introduced a tiny 8lb dog named Bingo who is looking for her forever home. Bingo is a 3-year-old Shih Tzu mix with an adorable appearance and a sweet disposition. However, she needs a patient and understanding owner who recognizes that "dogs are not toys, and not all dogs love to be picked up right away," explains Sandy Paws Rescue Inc. This little lady requires some decompression time upon arriving at her new home to settle in comfortably.

Meet The Sweet Little Lady Looking For Love

The winners for the 2023 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were announced August 12, 2024 at the World Fantasy Convention in Glasgow, Scotland. WINNER: Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber; Scribner) Julia, Sandra Newman (Mariner) Wages of Sin, Harry Turtledove (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy) Sunset Empire, Josh Weiss (Grand...

2023 Sidewise Award Winners

Costco and Disney this month took a page from the Netflix playbook and announced they are cracking down on account sharers.

The era of freeloading is officially over

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Horoscope for Tuesday, August 13th

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Aldiss Awards Launch

Tim Aldiss, son of late SFWA Grandmaster Brian Aldiss (1925-2017), has announced the launch of the Aldiss Award, “which celebrates excellence in world-building across speculative fiction...

Aldiss Awards Launch

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