sci fi The entire Animorphs book series is now available for free online Thom Dunn

video games Review: "Don't Read The Comments" is a delightful YA antidote to GamerGate Thom Dunn

homophobia Can you guess what happened when a Young Adult lit mag suggested a bi character wasn't OK for younger readers? Rob Beschizza

Comic Books Cory reviews Stepping Stones By Lucy Knisley Mark Frauenfelder

contagion FDA warns Purell to back off hand sanitizer germ-killing claims Rob Beschizza

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

books Out today: a two-volume, slipcased edition of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, introduced by Gloria Steinem and Toshi Reagon Cory Doctorow

books The events that could kill us all (and how we might prevent them) David Pescovitz

poetry Joy Harjo named 23rd Poet Laureate, first Native American to serve in U.S. position of honor Xeni Jardin

books Magical Women: a new anthology of feminist science fiction by women from India Cory Doctorow

the uncanny Bizarro Bazar keeps the world weird Ferdinando Buscema

books Gollancz has published its first anthology of South Asian Science Fiction Cory Doctorow

History Corroborating evidence that Herodotus wrote accurately about a boat Jason Weisberger

fake news Hoover killed JFK, RFK & MLK, Brad Pitt’s private hell, and Mick Jagger’s mental disorder, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

happy mutants The secret history of science fiction's women writers: The Future is Female! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival Jasmina Tesanovic

Science Europe's massive plan to require open access for all science gets two new backers: Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation Cory Doctorow

Audio Welcome to Hollow Falls – and Lethal Lit, a New Scripted Crime Podcast Alex Segura

christ what an asshole Devin Nunes's much-touted California farm secretly moved to Iowa in 2006, in a district dependent on undocumented workers Cory Doctorow