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A great piece in Slate from Dan Sinykin about the editing / publishing career of Lester del Rey, which I wasn't able to cover in ASTOUNDING—although now I wish I had! But I couldn't have done a better job than this. slate.com/culture/2023/1…

A nice mention of my boy Luis Alvarez in the opening of this great piece by doc milli 🧚🏽 in the The New York Times. (To be fair, the article that Alvarez saw that day didn't mention Meitner either—I've read it!—but I agree that she deserves a lot more credit.) nytimes.com/2023/10/02/sci…

Alec Nevala-Lee I learned about Alvarez from this video, and I didn't realize he's the subject of your next book until I listened to your Hugos There podcast youtu.be/aY985qzn7oI?t=…

Now I just feel like I'm writing the world's longest Oppenheimer fanfic

It is a fascinating case study in myth making even in our modern communications age where everything can be verified. I knew Bob's tale for years & took it to be true until Alec Nevala-Lee did a clinical autopsy. This 🧵 is mostly this article 👇 slate.com/culture/2022/0…

Me pitching exactly the same random essay idea every time I get a new editor's contact information

This reference to "Byron's image as the personification of the Byronic hero" reminds me of what Homer Simpson said when told that he had a genetic condition known as Homer Simpson Syndrome: "Oh, why me?"

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I'm still a little embarrassed that I didn't mention this in the Fuller book