I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me: ( YA graphic novel )

Sarah Kuhn, Unsung Heroine: ( novella ).

Bridget Collins, The Binding: ( book fantasy )
Tobias S. Buckell, Tides from the New Worlds: ( short stories )
Julie E. Czernada, In the Company of Others: ( sf about diminished expectations )
Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue: ( YA queer regency-ish romance )
T. Kingfisher, Toad Words and Other Stories: ( twice told tales )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Empire in Black and Gold: ( insect world )
Richard Kadrey, The Grand Dark: ( steampunk Weimar republic )

Neil deGrasse Tyson says, “Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive.” True confessions: I have actually tried this. Does not work.

Dangerous downloads in a couple of ways: 20 banned books, for free.  I make no representation that these works are in the public domain in your jurisdiction; some clearly are public domain worldwide, some are public domain in some places, and some …

Is fandom disqualifying from politics? WoW fan by night, state legislative candidate by day. Sounds good to me, but not to her Republican opponent.

( Suzanne Collins, Stacia Kane (paranormal) )

Many, many thanks for all the Evil Overlord suggestions thus far. Please feel free to leave more, if you think of them.

Cicada update: almost all dead. The sound is like an electric hum, like having your ear pressed to a generator the size of a house – though with more dying every minute, maybe the generator is now only TV-sized. There are so many, coating trees and grass and cars and doors, that it reminds me of that Star Trek: TOS episode, "The Omega Glory," the one with the Yangs and the Kohms – "They sacrificed hundreds just to draw us out into the open. And then, they came, and they came. We killed *thousands*, and still they came!," the bad captain Tracey says. I don't know how the species survives, given that the individual cicadas get themselves killed in every possible way, from flying into doors to landing on pools of water and drowning. They are profligate with their lives, that's for sure. Perhaps they only become stupid after they've mated and laid eggs. A friend of mine says their existence is proof that there is no God, but maybe they're just proof that God has an inordinate fondness for cicadas.

( Lots and lots and lots of fiction and a dab of comics and poetry )