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The Endless Summer by Zachary Garcia – FREE STORY
Exploration can take you to some amazing places, and some places that make you wonder…what was this place like? Does it remind you of home? Someplace you’d like to return to? Can you really go […]
Soiling the Nest by E.J. Kavounas – FREE STORY
The rep from Zocalo, I think she called herself Kayla, wanted to discuss our son’s future. Conor just graduated high school, class of 2039, and hoped to become part of Zocalo, a process Kayla described […]
Opposition Run by Scott Stoddard – FREE STORY
Space travel may some day be within the realm of the daredevil, the reckless young, the average kid. Some may reach for the unattainable, or what we might call the impossible. Set a record, or […]
Speed by Bob Johnston – FREE STORY
When you go on a deep space mission, so much can change when you are gone. New for you, new history, new geography, new government. Whether its for the good or the bad…it all depends […]
News
Time Machine: March 17, 2024
Amazing News: 3/17/24 AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 17, 2024 New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance for MARCH 13 The Big Idea: Zilka Joseph Matt’s Reviews: Wool by Hugh Howey Noah Chinn Reviews: The Chronicles […]
Amazing News: 3/17/24
Publisher’s Note: Today, we’re offering our readers news assembled into subject categories. Let us know what you think! AMAZING PEOPLE NEWS Artist and author Al Sirois inadvertently shares with us that he does, in fact, […]
Starship Test 3 Quick Recap
Starship Test 3 or Integrated Flight Test 3 (IFT3) was a huge success. Booster 10 and Ship 28 successfully lifted off at 8:25AM CT from Starbase, Texas. Hot staging was executed without a hitch: Booster […]
OpEd
The Big Idea: Zilka Joseph
The world is wider than we often know, with more people and communities in them than many of us have heard of before. In Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, author Zilka […]
The Big Idea: Kerrie Faye
Sometimes as an author, you have to work to develop a character. And sometimes, they just… appear. Which of these did author Kerry Faye have happen for her novel Dead Girl? She’s here now to […]
Pluralistic: Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses
Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (permalink) Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything […]
Chengdu… Nuevamente
Pues, yo no quería hacer ningún comentario negativo a mi experiencia sobre la última Wordcon, pero hay tanta controversia, sobre todo con el Hugo, que pienso es mi responsabilidad hablar sobre mi experiencia. En primer […]
CONTRARY BRIN: News from SPAAAAACE! Oh, and Fermi Paradox & Comets & Uplift!
Some of you are crazy about space colonization now! I can dig it; it’s always been a dream for me, as well. Still, elsewhere I talk about the harm this mindset may be wreaking, upon […]
Science Fiction
Relief by Kaci Curtis – FREE STORY
So many people regret so much in their lives. So much pain, regret, grief… This story shows the extremes to which some will go to, to get even a short respite from that pain. Only […]
Matt’s Reviews: Wool by Hugh Howey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Published Date: March 2013) Pages: 514 ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-3511-5 Author: Hugh Howey Wool By Hugh Howey is the first book in the Silo series. Howey wrote Wool in his spare time […]
What Happened to the Galileo Shuttlecraft from STAR TREK?
Source: What Happened to the Galileo Shuttlecraft from STAR TREK?
Novedades de Febrero 3
LIBROS Maquinaciones ha publicado el primer libro de ficción de Elton Honores, la novela , «Nunca seremos nacidos». Se presentó el 28 de febrero, en la Casa de la Literatura Peruana, en el contexto del […]
The Endless Summer by Zachary Garcia – FREE STORY
Exploration can take you to some amazing places, and some places that make you wonder…what was this place like? Does it remind you of home? Someplace you’d like to return to? Can you really go […]
CLUBHOUSE: Review: “The Golden Amazon Returns!” by John Russell Fearn
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. The Golden Amazon Returns! – by John Russell Fearn Publisher: Toronto Daily Star Newspaper, Ontario, Canada, 1945. Cover art: by Bill Book Note: A health […]
Sea and Space Laws
Life is in the business of geographical expansion. Spores ride the wind, seeds surf the waves, uncountable numbers are on the move this very moment on wing and paw. While moving from one place to […]
What Happened to STAR WARS?
Source: What Happened to STAR WARS?
Fantasy
Paul Levinson interviews Richard Sparks about New Rock, New Role
Source: Paul Levinson interviews Richard Sparks about New Rock, New Role
Noah Chinn Reviews: The Chronicles of Chaos
Any time an author reaches the end of a journey, it’s worth celebrating. So today I’d like to celebrate Glen Dahlgren. He’s been featured in KODT magazine in the past, reviewed by Barbara Blackburn (who […]
REVIEW: CRUCIBLE OF CHAOS by SEBASTIEN DE CASTELL
Today Steve checks out Sebastien de Castell’s “Crucible of Chaos” and finds it a good read. He says it flows quite well and features an unlikely protagonist. He also dips into a couple of A. Merritt’s juicy books from the ‘20s and ‘30s.
Excerpt: The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang
Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, who finds the city unkind to outsiders and as dispirited as her own family. […]
Novedades de Febrero 3
LIBROS Maquinaciones ha publicado el primer libro de ficción de Elton Honores, la novela , «Nunca seremos nacidos». Se presentó el 28 de febrero, en la Casa de la Literatura Peruana, en el contexto del […]
Science
NASA Telescopes Shed Light on Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
Fast radio bursts, a mysterious type of high-energy flash emanating from deep space, have perplexed scientists for years. We’re beginning to unravel the mystery thanks to extensive study with powerful telescopes and a little bit […]
Matt’s Reviews: Range: How Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein
Publisher: RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM Publication date: 04/27/2021 Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780735214507 Author: David Epstein Range: How Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein includes several real world examples […]
CONTRARY BRIN: Yet more Space News! And reasons for us to have some confidence.
There are so many reasons why we ought to refuse and reject the propaganda-against-confidence, out there. A better-than-expected economy? Dropping crime rates? A working vaccine against malaria and looming extinction for both the Guinea worm […]
Review: Architects of Worlds by Jon F. Zeigler
Ad Astra games soon to release Architect of Worlds by Jon F. Zeigler
Newly Discovered Ring of Galaxies Threatens Our Understanding of the Universe
A cosmic megastructure more than 9 billion light years away from Earth challenges what we know about the universe. A doctoral candidate at the United Kingdom’s University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has spotted a […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE Publication date: 04/02/1998 Pages: 256 Copyright Year: 1985 ISBN: 0-684-85394-9 Author: Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a […]
CONTRARY BRIN: Human origins – and evolution. Patterns of cooperation and competition
I’m avoiding politics once again this time, in order to dive into the endlessly fascinating topic of human origins. And hence first, for your holiday shopping…. Can you hunt and gather and woo and connive […]
India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit
A little more than three months ago the Indian space agency, ISRO, achieved a major success by putting its Vikram lander safely down on the surface of the Moon. In doing so India became the […]