In a post on his blog and Facebook this morning, David Brin, noted SF author and accomplished prognosticator, reminds us that Robert Heinlein forewarned us, in quite detailed fashion, of the future upon whose precipice […]
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In the early morning hours of November 6th, 2024, it rained heavily in Ohio. It woke me up and I had an uneasy feeling of dread. My partner Juli and I had spent the evening […]
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Sometimes you go long. And as Kate Elliot details in this Big Idea for The History of the World Begins in Ice, sometimes you go long to explain why, this time, you’ve gone short. KATE […]
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Famous writers will tell you of their lives and the lives of those in their orbit. That framing, however, suggests those other lives are not on their own journeys through the universe. In this Big […]
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The days are getting shorter and the nights longer as we head into the dark season of the year. For author Richard Thomas, that’s all to the good, because for his novel Incarnate, he wants […]
Source: Paul Levinson interviews Bob Hutchings: An Optimistic Discussion of AI
Music can raise spirits… and it can save souls. In this Big Idea for Voices Carry, author Raven Oak goes deep into the music and lyrics that carried them through the highs and lows, and […]
It is clear that book marketing has changed radically over the past several decades. This is not all that surprising considering how much the entire publishing industry has changed during that time. Publishers have had […]
Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication date: 06/07/2011 Pages: 480 ISBN: 9780061452062 Author: Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley begins with the premise that overall, the world has been improving […]
The pantheon of Greek gods is having a moment in popular culture recently, from the new Kaos TV series to the video game Hades, and author Abigail Owen adding her own imagination to that moment with her latest, The Games Gods Play. […]
Never discount the power of “Oh, yeah? I’ll show you. Watch this.” Author Beth Revis recounts how just such a thought led to her latest novel, Full Speed to a Crash Landing. BETH REVIS: We’ve […]
There’s a theme David Niall Wilson explores in When You Leave I Disappear, and it’s one familiar to artists of all sorts, not to mention others in any number of walks of life. But that theme is just […]
Space is unfathomably vast — and for some people, that’s a feature, not a bug. A.Z. Rozkills understands this, and that desire for space, in more than one sense of the term, is something that […]
What happens when you have a “surprise” sequel — one you didn’t know you were going to write — and you have take a story further without compromising what’s come before? M V Melcer has […]
For The Night Ends With Fire, author K.X. Song turns her eye to a strong human emotion and follows where having it leads, and what having it does to those who experience it. Which emotion […]
In today’s Big Idea for Glass Houses, author Madeline Ashby poses a question, and then poses a separate question, and then makes you question whether one or both of those questions has the answer you think might be the […]
There’s a very important thing that Raven Belasco wants you to remember about the undead, and in this Big Idea for her novella collection Blood Triad, she gets into it, finding the pulse of storytelling behind some of our […]
There’s so much to speculative fiction that you could write a book about it. And that’s exactly what authors Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan did! In fact, they did it twice. Today they’re here to […]
My “On Books” review in ASIMOV magazine, CITIZENS OF THE GALAXY, is about to be published and when I wrote it I said that the existence of life beyond our planet and or/solar system might […]
The universe is filled with many wondrous things, but perhaps the most wondrous is when two authors can meld their visions together to create a single, unified work. Owen B Greenwald explains how, for Weapons […]
So many of us dream of dragons. In this big idea for Daydreamer, author Rob Cameron delves into why we do… and what the dragons might be thinking, too. ROB CAMERON: I wrote Daydreamer, my […]
Science Fiction is famously a genre in conversation with itself, and in her latest novel Apostles of Mercy, author Lindsay Ellis finds herself in direct conversation with one of the most famous science fiction writers […]
What does it take to be a villainous, evil mastermind? More than you might think! For, as Caitlin Rozakis points out in this Big Idea for Dreadful, there’s a reason for the look and presentation […]
Author Will Ludwigsen earns his “Explain Your Latest Work” badge with this Big Idea about A Scout is Brave. Come find out how scouting and chthonic horror join forces to… well, you’ll find out. WILL […]
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