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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards yesterday, and RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships was selected as the best fantasy novel of the year.

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Feb. 11, 2021, the sixth International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new Forever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century.

Reading Time: 3 minutesNASA has been releasing photos as they arrive from Mars and they are awesome.

Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at the red planet, and hopefully will place the Perseverance Rover on the surface.

Reading Time: 4 minutesTo understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” the physicist writes in a new book.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe U. S. Postal Service announced its new lineup of stamps for 2021, and sci-fi legend Ursula K. Le Guin is the latest addition to the Literary Arts series.

Reading Time: 2 minutesNalo Hopkinson is the first black woman to win the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for her lifetime achievements in science fiction and fantasy writing.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery Thursday, Epic offers a PC game for free. Yesterday that was Stardock Games’ Galactic Civilizations 3, a critically-acclaimed, popular game that’s like Sid Meier’s Civilization, but in space. Other differences include the fact that you can play the game in multi-player mode, battling your friends for control of the galaxy. That’s nice, considering that,

Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’re hoping or fearing that new technology can put you in a Matrix-style virtual environment — it’s not happening in 2021, judging by what we saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGrist, a publication that focuses on climate, sustainability and social justice has announced a contest for short stories that focus on climate change. Entry is free, the deadline is April 12, and the short stories should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length. “We’re embracing the opportunity to look beyond the confines of the

Reading Time: 3 minutesWondering what some of your favorite fantasy, horror, and sci-fi writers have been up to on Instagram? Here’s a short but sweet list of popular speculative fiction author’s Instagram accounts.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith talks of large companies investing in AI weapons, brain-chips being developed to enhance soldiers, and the head of the British armed forces saying that robot soldiers could make up a quarter of the army by the 2030s, people might have some doubts about where this is all going — a recent survey citing twelve percent of Americans see the possibility of human extinction.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAround 35 percent of businesses plan on implementing virtual or augmented reality technology in 2021 according to a recently published research report.

Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can now join virtual meetings in any location and see avatars of coworkers or friends. The VR and AR collaboration platform Spatial released a free AR app for iOS and Android last week. Instead of using a bulky and expensive VR headset, the platform now works with just a phone or tablet — though

Reading Time: 2 minutesSales of virtual reality hardware and software will grow at double-digits rates over the next four years, according to a report by ARtillery Intelligence.