On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

This will cause Arguments.

I look forward to reading - and participating - in due time.

https://michaelchabon.medium.com/some-notes-on-romulans-b1c7f30a383f

Some further discussion has begun at Mr. Chabon's Twitter account:

https://twitter.com/michaelchabon/status/1368627411894509569

Good morning, and good luck.

1. As an exploration of depictions of the divine to start this morning, and of indigenous perceptions of divinity...

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/arts/new-haida-exhibition-visualizes-female-supernaturalbeings/article35336452/

2. RIP Stephen Furst, of St. Elsewhere and Babylon 5 fame.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/06/17/sic-transit-vir-babylon-5-actor-stephen-furst-dies-63/

Seems Neil DeGrasse Tyson's been asked to weigh in for DC's current editorial purposes which star and where in our sky we can find it.

I remember back in the late 1980's that John Byrne referred to an unidentified red dwarf located "50 light-years away", partly out of respect for the 50th anniversary of the Superman franchise's founding. I don't think the star in question was ever specifically nailed down by name or catalogue number, although a number of amateur and professional astronomers have come up with usable maps and lists and posted or otherwise published them so that the public - science-fiction, fantasy and super-hero writers among them - could have their own fun with the material.

Before Byrne, there was Elliot S! Maggin with his statement about Antares in either Miracle Monday or Last Son of Krypton. Not sure which novel it was.

And did Mark Waid say something in Birthright about the Andromeda Galaxy?

Someone whose work I'd read regularly back in the late 1980's and early 1990's was Peter B. Gillis. Some of you may remember Strikeforce: Morituri. That was one of his when it started out, published through Marvel once upon a time.

He's still alive, it seems, and a while back, I stumbled across one of his short stories on his weblog.

It seemed to fit the Season, in a Twilight Zone way, and I still like it now.

So...for your reading pleasure now:

A Visit from Old Nick

Enjoy or don't, as the moment requires.