The Big Idea: CJ Leede
Be the change you want to see in the world. For author CJ Leede, that means creating a villainous, monstrous female character because she didn’t see enough of them in the world. Dive into her […]
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Book Excerpt: The Night Field by Donna Glee Williams
Pushcart Prize-nominee Donna Glee Williams was born in Mexico, the daughter a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas large-animal vet. She graduated from Tulane University, then earned an MFA and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her […]
Book Excerpt: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place. Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in […]
Book Excerpt – The Babel Apocalypse by Dr. Vyvyan Evans
Dr. Vyvyan Evans is a native of Chester, England. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and is a Professor of Linguistics. He has published numerous acclaimed popular science and technical books […]
Book Excerpt: A Tidy Armageddon by B.H. Panhuyzen
1 A vee of Canada geese passed across the slot of sky that ran east to west between two nine-storey walls. It was late August, and they were heading south, early migrators, the machine of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Book Excerpt: The First Olympians by Graeme Falco
Chapter One: Gordon They were supposed to leave for the ceremony together, but he couldn’t wait any longer. Gordon hurried down the street, alone, and distracted himself with the familiar topics of schematics, power modules, […]
Book Excerpt: To The Stars / Ad Astra by Norman Spinrad
The stories in this book are set in the coming days of the Golden Centuries of Astronomy, so why does it begin with THE TRANSFORMATION CRISIS, written as a speech I wrote for a futurology […]
Book Excerpt: ReInception by Sarena Straus
A hundred years in the future, ReInception is used to modify the brain and eliminate unwanted behaviors- everything from overeating to the worst criminal impulses. Unmodified 20-year-old Leandrea Justus feels ordinary compared to her perfect […]
Book Excerpt: A DIAMOND DREAM by Eli K.P. William
A DIAMOND DREAM FINAL BOOK OF THE JUBILEE CYCLE ELI K. P. WILLIAM 1 The Tokyo Canal All was fire, a great conflagration roaring from the charcoal of a starless cosmos. Billowing and […]
BOOK EXCERPT: The Eye of Argon and the Further Adventures of Grignr the Barbarian
We Can All Be Grignr; or: How to Appreciate Very Bad Writing by Michael A. Ventrella So it’s 1970. If you’re a fan of high fantasy, you’ve read The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. […]
Reseña de Libro: Entre la Ciencia Ficción y la Fantasía de Cristian Londoño Proaño
A good guide for those who want to understand more about definitions and history of the genre
Creeping Jenny by Jeff Noon book cover reveal & exclusive first chapters
the third book in the acclaimed John Nyquist series by Jeff Noon
Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay book cover reveal and exclusive excerpt
New England is locked down, a strict curfew the only way to stem the wildfire spread of a rabies-like virus.
A Fantasy Winter Holiday and Cinderella Fairy Tale Theme All in One!
On the creation of fictional holidays – with an excerpt
Brandon Sanderson’s Starsight: Exclusive Chapter Excerpt
An excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s latest – Starsight
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Priest, by Rowan McAllister
With a monster lurking in the forest, a wandering mage mysteriously appearing, and more secrets awakening to unravel the truths of their world, Tas and Girik must make grave decisions.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Surviving Death, by G.R. Lyons
An excerpt from a gay paranormal romance novel
Excerpt from Homeworld of the Heart from Chronicles of the High Inquest, by S. P. Somtow
Somtow Sucharitkul, world-reknowned conductor and composer, returns to the SF world with an excerpt from his highly regarded Inquestor series.
Presentación de Libro. Aniquilan las Estrellas por mí de Andrés Felipe Escovar Barreto.
A short excerpt from the novel Aniquila las estrellas por mí by Andrés Felipe Escovar
Top post del 2018
Tanya reviews us – Amazing Stories – from blog to magazine to future plans.
Nuevas Publicaciones: Trilogía El Instinto de la Luz de Cristian Londoño Proaño
An excerpt from Cristian Londoño Proaño’s The Instinct of Light series
Noticias Literatura 12-6
Video from the latest TerBi conference, two new anthologies and the Ansible feminist SF festival
Exclusive Excerpt: Black Alithe by Nicholas Fife (a Folklore: Affliction Tale)
From the world of Folklore: The Affliction, we bring you an excerpt from the tale of Black Alith
Noticias Literatura 23-8
Two new speculative fiction books have been released in Spanish: La canción de Bêlit, an exploration of a lost period in the history of Robert E, Howard’s Conan the Barbarian; and Transcrepuscular, which considers a possible evolutionary symbiosis between humanity and nature, exposing our ethnocenrtic view of the world.
Excerpt: The People’s Police by Norman Spinrad
Some folks are still bitching that the Eternal Mardi Gras is a Disney version, what with the traditional Krewes’ parading limited to the traditional lead-up to Fat Tues- day while the big budget corporate […]
Excerpt: Confessions of an English Psychopath by Jack Strange
Is it possible to create a character so despicable the reader is forced to like him?
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