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News & Editorial

N. K. Jemisin has probably been a genius for a while, but now it's official with a capital MacArthur and $625K of genius dollars.
Christopher Paolini's new book is getting a movie treatment, and he's writing the screenplay. Maybe this is practice for another Eragon movie?
Dartmouth College has awarded Ted Chiang and Cadwell Turnbull with the 2020 Neukom awards for speculative fiction. (Note: Speculative fiction is just the ivy league way of saying fantasy, science fiction, and horror.)
Ken Liu has yet another TV adaptation underway, this time with a not-secret weapon: Orlando Bloom.

Highlights from NY Comic Con

Wesley Crusher (sometimes known by his alias Wil Wheaton) and Earnest Cline talk about the plot for Ready Player Two.
Talking world-building with Nnedi Okorafor, Kat Cho, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Lora Beth Johnson.
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2020) features Rebecca Roanhorse, Charlie Jane Anders, and Deji Bryce Olukotun among others.