animals This bizarre pigeon looks like something from a Pixar film directed by Salvador Dalí (video) David Pescovitz
happy mutants A free sf anthology about space travel, inequality, equity and public policy: Kim Stanley Robinson, Madeline Ashby, Eileen Gun, Ramez Naam, Steven Barnes, Karl Schroeder and more! Cory Doctorow
Delightful Creatures A panda who was "really, really, ridiculously good at sex" brought the species back from the brink of extinction, but things are still weird Cory Doctorow