Time Machine: April 2, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: April 2, 2023 Book Excerpt: Blood Red Steel by Damien Larkin BOOK REVIEW: Melinda West, MONSTER GUNSLINGER The Big Idea: Lavanya Lakshminarayan On writing audio – Action sequences – by Julian […]
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Book Excerpt: Blood Red Steel by Damien Larkin
PART 1: STROLLING PAST THE CUTLINE OUTSIDE NEW BERLIN COLONY, MARS 18th MARCH 1956 08:58 MST (MARS STANDARD TIME) DAY 727 OF THE OCCUPATION 23 DAYS UNTIL THE FIRST TERRAN – MARTIAN WAR […]
On writing audio – Action sequences – by Julian Simpson
Writing for audio offers a similar relationship to the listener that I imagine a novelist has with the reader: it’s a partnership; you’re not letting people sit back and passively watch something, you are asking […]
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – March 28nd, 2023
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The Site Visit by Nerine Dorman – FREE STORY
As for why they needed an Egyptologist on bloody Mars of all places, I couldn’t tell. And no, it was not for the sake of the supposed ‘pyramid’ that people were losing their minds […]
Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books
In a 1973 letter to the editor of The Horn Book Magazine, my mother, Ursula K. Le Guin, took Roald Dahl’s books to task. While acknowledging her own “feelings of unease” about Dahl’s work, she […]
Time Machine: March 26, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 26, 2023 AMAZING NEWS: 3/26/23 The Big Idea: Leopoldo Gout Novedades de Marzo 1 3D Printed Rockets ARE Possible MOVIE REVIEWS: DON’T LOOK UP, OPERATION FORTUNE, THE LAKE (some spoilers) […]
Three Kings, One Throne
((No, no, not the Iron Throne. An entirely different throne, on an entirely different world. There are lots of worlds, you know. Lots of books. Lots of thrones)). The queen is dead. Long live the […]
2024 Discworld Convention – Save the date!
Save the date in your Almanacks for the 2024 Discworld Convention! Your dedicated committee have been planning and scheming over the past several months to ensure a Convention will happen in 2024 and we can […]
The Dark Rind of the Moon by John Taloni – FREE STORY
I spotted the tourists before they even fully entered the bar, as they bounded too high in the Lunar gravity. One bumped his head on the entrance. Moments later I heard laughter. I pitched an ear […]
Time Machine: March 19, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 19, 2023 Introducing the Illustrators of the Future Winners of 2023 The Big Idea: Jane Hennigan Sturgeon Symposium Announced New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance for MARCH 15 Here’s the […]
Book Excerpt: The Way_The Gospel of Satan by Nicholas Fillmore
Gospel is a road trip story, a buddy novel. Easy Rider meets the Gospels. Part picaresque, part polemic. In a series of near-misadventures unfolding across the ancient Levant, the Devil, Jesus and his thirteen disciples […]
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – March 14th, 2023
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Love Planted in the Night Sky by Jenna Hanchey – FREE STORY
Truthfully, it started off as a joke. One shared between Gretchen, Annie, TJ, and I around a mess table on the lunar base, drinking in celebration of Gretchen’s daughter’s college graduation. Drinking too heavily, […]
Time Machine: March 12, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 12, 2023 AMAZING NEWS: 3/11/23 New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance for MARCH 8 REVIEW/PROMO: POLAR STARLIGHT & POLAR BOREALIS Review: The House of Styx By – Derek Künsken The […]
SFWA Names the 58th Nebula Award Finalists – The Nebula Awards®
March 7, 2023 – The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 58th Annual Nebula Awards®! Our congratulations go out to each and every finalist for the […]
The Big Idea: J.A. Tyler
Sometimes, when you start writing a novel, the book is about one thing. As the writing and editing process goes on, however, the book will reveal itself as being about, if not something else entirely, […]
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – March 8th, 2023
This week in Television/Streaming. And, in Film as well. Guest Blogger
The First Woman To Draw Wonder Woman Is Alive and Well in SF
Cartoonist and author Trina Robbins—the first woman to draw Wonder Woman—began reading at the age of four. But she began drawing even earlier. “It was as soon as I could hold a crayon in my […]
Book Excerpt: The Dark Lands by Markus Heitz
Additional Reading The real state of affairs in 1629 Don’t worry, this is a fantasy novel and I have no intention of turning it into anything else. However, to make my readers understand the context better, I have decided to supply a […]
Cattywampusly Chawed Up on Asteroid Ryugu by Royce Badgers – FREE STORY
“Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.” Hassan Blasim Rob cursed at himself, loudly and long and with great creativity. He […]
Time Machine: March 5, 2023
AMAZING NEWS: 3/5/23 AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: March 5, 2023 NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE & COMMONS – A Man of the Theater Book Excerpt: The First Olympians by Graeme Falco FANAC Fan History Project Announces […]
The Big Idea: Susan McDonough-Wachtman
They say good things come to those who wait. They also, however, say that waiting is the hardest part. In both cases, Susan McDonough-Wachtman has reason to understand each aphorism, and in this Big Idea […]
Hugo Nominations Are Finally Open – Locus Online
Nominations are now open for the Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, to be presented at Chengdu Worldcon 2023, the 81st World Science […]
The Big Idea: Paz Pardo
Writer Robert Benchley once noted that you can do anything, as long as it’s not the thing you’re supposed to be doing. Paz Pardo knows a little bit about that – in fact, it’s one […]
Genre Penetration of Streaming Services, Courtesy of JustWatch – February 28th, 2023
This week in Television/Streaming. And, in Film as well. Guest Blogger
Time of the Critic, By Andrew Hiller – FREE STORY
Terrance dug a groove into a slab of limestone, stenciling an ideograph into a large flat surface. It proved delicate work. The soft rock tended to chip and crack at the slightest application of horn, […]
Fantasy Author Nnedi Okorafor Announces Who Fears Death Prequel (from IO9)
Get the scoop on She Who Knows, a prequel to the author’s World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, and more! It’s an especially great day to be a Nnedi Okorafor fan: the much-acclaimed author has three new adult fantasy novellas on […]
Highlights of Prop Store’s February STAR TREK Auction, Including Rare Items from TNG Season 1 Writer Sandy Fries
Prop Store, one of the leading companies that deals in production made and screen used television and movie props and costumes, is currently auctioning over 1,000 props and costumes in their 2023 Los Angeles Online […]
Time Machine: February 26, 2023
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: February 26, 2023 AMAZING NEWS: 2/26/23 Sistah Scifi bookstore launches vending machines with titles by Black and Indigenous authors The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz TV REVIEW: THE PERIPHERAL, Season 1 (Some […]
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