Reading Time: 4 minutes The number of planets in the universe is truly astronomical — some are gas giants, like Jupiter in our solar system. Others may be water worlds or ice planets. And some are Earth-like.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes After literally sucking the life out of her abusive husband, a ghost wife tells her story of ruin and retribution.
Reading Time: 5 minutes New knowledge of quantum fractals could provide the foundations for scientists to experimentally test the theory of quantum consciousness.
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Reading Time: 10 minutes What happens when your superhero powers aren’t so super anymore?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Deep point of view is a technique that modern writers use to make stories feel more compelling and immediate for the reader. You can use this technique in both first person and third person narration.
Reading Time: 15 minutes How I, a tech and cybersecurity journalist, backup all my computer systems.
Reading Time: 5 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes One day a rabid animal took a bite out of Breeder’s beloved pet and sidekick Top Dog. Top Dog is a muscular, spoiled canine with a colossal appetite. Breeder always let Top Dog play with Creatures, even dangerous and wild ones. He secretly got a kick out of watching Top Dog’s nature grow hellish and animated when he toyed with them. Top Dog also had a talent for dominating Creatures of all kinds. Breeder bragged to Brother often.
Reading Time: 18 minutes I’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes faeries, aliens, zombies, demigods, and an EMP apocalypse.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 16, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutes Soledad and her brother arrive at Marytown, a post-apocalyptic stronghold where normal people can live in relative safety–as long as they have a skill to offer the community. The anachronistically well-groomed Queen Mary sees potential in Soledad, introducing both comfort and danger to the siblings’ lives.
Reading Time: 6 minutes NASA recently had to cancel a long-planned spacesuit because of the lack of a spacesuit in the right size. NASA, you broke our hearts.
Reading Time: 3 minutes E. M. Foner tries out Amazon’s Kindle Vella, a new publishing option for episodic fiction, and tells us what he thinks about the platform.
Reading Time: 3 minutes This movie is a new psychological thriller that deals with dreams. For horror and sci-fi fans, it has a secret to startle you with.
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Reading Time: 11 minutes Debts are called in high in the hills in this bronze-age fantasy.
Reading Time: 4 minutes To take on some of the biggest challenges of the next generation of astronomy, astronomers are turning to AI)to build new tools to rapidly search for the next big breakthroughs.
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Reading Time: 24 minutes Karin heads up a group of disparate and interesting characters exploring tunnels lined with luminous rock that Earth needs. Good suspense with a satisfactorily scientific denouement and love thrown in. What more could you ask?
Reading Time: 5 minutes I subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 minutes I’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes the start of a 100-book-plus space opera series, an EMP survival book, a fairytale retold, and a succubus with an insatiable appetite for sex.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 9, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 23 minutes First came the time-storm, which erased half the population. Then came the Dinosaur Apocalypse …
Reading Time: 5 minutes In Winter Tide and its sequel Deep Roots, Emrys pays homage to the drama and lyrical beauty of Lovecraft’s writing, staying scrupulously true to the mythos while turning its fear of the unknown inside-out.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes A hitman hired to kill the Four Horsemen and prevent the apocalypse has one last target waiting for him in the parking lot of an abandoned strip club. But how do you kill Death?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education could be seen as Harry Potter meets Hunger Games, or “Hungry Potter” if you will.
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Reading Time: 25 minutes A man, twisted by hatred and his own experience, blunders his way into absolute power.
Reading Time: 17 minutes The lands were barren, the animals were dead and their bellies were rumbling. In one last attempt, they prayed for salvation, but something else answered them…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Inspired by both the art of Louise Bourgeois and a news story about a sex-bot repairman, “Spiral Woman” gives a kind of agency to a member of the already-marginalized servant class of the future.
Reading Time: 15 minutes I’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a leather-wearing armed bounty hunter, vampires, werewolves, witches, mages, and elves. Oh, and an alien planet with telepathic beings.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 2, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutes Duty and revenge intersect as a displaced crew fight for survival. but the toll of that survival may cost too much. Their fate hinges on the destinies of two men, both teetering between valor and self-destruction.
Enjoy an excerpt from the first novel in The Dawn Cluster, ‘Detriment.’
Reading Time: 27 minutes A psychic makes the mistake of falling in love with the person she is supposed to protect from assassination.
Reading Time: 11 minutes When you want to improve something, you have to measure it. Here is a list of the top ways to measure your daily writing progress.
Reading Time: 16 minutes There is now, and indeed has always been, a tendency of society to split between those who favor progress and those who want things left well enough alone.
Reading Time: 10 minutes “Don’t go in the forest.” “Don’t open your eyes after sunset.” “Don’t look behind that door in the cellar.” Being forbidden from doing something is a common theme in fairy tales, but why? What kind of power does the person doing the forbidding have over the one being forbidden?
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can change your appearance with the touch of a button. But should you?
Reading Time: 18 minutes We’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes Vampires, witches, sexy dragons, sexy shape shifters, more sexy dragons, and sexy aliens.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 25, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 25 minutes The first part of a contemporary fantasy story for young and new adults. Sixteen-year-old Renna Porter and Job, her mysterious tutor in witchcraft, race to a magical sanctuary deep in the Adirondacks, pursued by a demon hunting down the last of Renna’s bloodline.
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It is indeed a Universe of Miracles! But not for young Pimsol Anderts, idle and jobless on a depressed, waterlogged world, until he signs aboard the interstellar freighter Miraculous Abernathy. Indentured to the aristocratic Wirthy family—and bewitched by beautiful Mirable Wirthy, the latest clone of the long-dead matriarch Imogene Wirthy—Pim’s adventure has barely begun when pirates attack, forcing him to flee the ship with Mirable in tow …
Reading Time: 13 minutes This tale is an excellent example of Vonnegut’s grasp of the hilarious and sometimes macabre nature of humanity.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes At a cliff’s edge, an unnamed protagonist has a conversation with their dead mother.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, mercenaries, postapocalyptic cowboys, witches, vampires, and dinosaurs.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 18, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutes After watching his annoying neighbor be arrested and erased, both virtually and physically, from the world, a man decides to risk everything to help preserve a few fleeting memories of others who have been erased.
Reading Time: 4 minutes What happens to science fiction when aliens actually do show up on Earth?
Reading Time: 21 minutes In this story, the stark life of a moon miner conflicts with the psychological burden of life on the moon in a beautiful connection of suspense and raw emotion.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Perhaps we control our own destiny. Perhaps, a kind and gentle deity looks over us from on high, and provides just the right amount of guidance, love and support. Then again, probably not. Perhaps, just perhaps, our destinies and our beliefs are intertwined in some strange manner.
Reading Time: 3 minutes I haven’t seen what the world is running from, and my father won’t tell me. But I have heard what they say in the village. The monsters came from the sky to live in our oceans.
Reading Time: 15 minutes Denis Villeneuve’s adaption of Dune scheduled to be released this fall in theaters and on HBO Max, but the author’s life is a tale in and of itself.
Reading Time: 16 minutes I’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, halflings, grim reapers, and lots of aliens.
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Reading Time: 16 minutes When humans move to an ice planet, biological antifreeze becomes necessary – but only the First settlers have evolved it. General Devereaux goes head-to-head with a First revolutionary as each tries to save their people from the cold front – and from each other.
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Live Remote VEX Robotics World Championship had broken the Guinness World Record as the largest online robot championship.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A new book by a features erotic stories across a number of genres, including sci-fi, cyberpunk, and fantasy.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Last Saturday, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the winners of the 56th Nebula Awards.
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