fake news A romance author allegedly faked her own suicide to boost book sales Thom Dunn

dracula The strange romantic allure of the Universal monsters Gareth Branwyn

robots Fictosexual man who married a hologram can no longer speak with wife, due to software glitch Thom Dunn

COVID-19 Woman trapped with a blind date after Chinese COVID lockdown Thom Dunn

happy mutants Something New: frank, comedic, romantic memoir of a wedding in comic form Cory Doctorow

Comics "Please Say It!" is a sweet new webcomic about coming out in the 80s Thom Dunn

tabloids "Unhinged Putin" and World War III in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books Someone wrote an existential horror comedy set entirely in Slack and it's great Thom Dunn

happy mutants The Black Ghost: superhero noir comic starring an antiestablishment vigilante and a hacktivist sidekick Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher

happy mutants Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang bring Paper Girls in for a perfect landing Cory Doctorow

happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Sandman Slim 10: Hollywood Dead, in which hopeless love raises the stakes still further Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Exit West: beautifully wrought novel about refugees, mobility and borders Cory Doctorow

happy mutants All's Faire in Middle School, a wonderful graphic novel about misfits, middle school and the middle ages Cory Doctorow

fake news World War III, Trump, and proof Princess Diana was murdered, in this week's tabloids Peter Sheridan

Trans Stories The Emmy-nominated web series Her Story signs a light on trans romance Caroline Siede

books The final Pratchett: The Shepherd's Crown Cory Doctorow

Science Our Generation Ships Will Sink Kim Stanley Robinson

offworld Cibele and the end of an era for internet lovers Leigh Alexander