Reading Time: 13 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 space battles, haunted houses, and a succubus demon with werewolf lovers.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes When I arrived in Austria I had to complete a German language course before I could attend university, but I had trouble focusing in the online learning platform. Immersive virtual reality solved the problem.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Contrary to what sci-fi literature has been telling us for the past several decades, humans have not been able to fly on another planet until yesterday.
Reading Time: 11 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 FBI agents who can shape-shift into dragons, a battle to save Earth from an evil AI, vampires, witches, werewolves, wormholes, space pirates and a prison planet.
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Reading Time: 7 minutes Finalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced by DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention today in a YouTube video.
Reading Time: 11 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 dragons, badass devil hunters, and time-traveling sailing ships.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes While it is marketed to “Space Operations Professionals,” it is also a cool opportunity to get some insight into how today’s space industry works.
Reading Time: 12 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 two magic schools, dragons, space battles, and some very proper Victorian zombies.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes There are a lot of all-you-can-read and free e-book options out there. Learn all about Kindle Unlimited, Prime Reading, OverDrive and Libby, Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Scribd, 24Symbols, and Bookmate. There’s even a service that will send print books to you by mail, BookLender.
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Reading Time: 11 minutes I’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten books on Amazon’s fantasy and sci-fi list of free books, and today’s list includes a paranormal investigator, a succubus, and a magic-wielding orphan in a dystopian future.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The character has gone from initially dividing fans to becoming one of the franchise’s most beloved characters, going on to play a major role in “Star Wars: Rebels,” and to be portrayed by actor Rosario Dawson in a recent episode of “The Mandalorian.”
Ahsoka Tano from E.K. Johnston’s, “Star Wars: Ahsoka,” Simply Rocks Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutes I’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten books on Amazon’s fantasy and sci-fi list of free books, so you don’t have to.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Can the Save the Cat method release the hidden kitten in a crouching cat? That is, is the method applicable to shorter works?
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Reading Time: 9 minutes Did you know that Amazon has a list of the top-selling and free sci-fi and fantasy books? Here are the top ten — and my takes on each of them.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Smartphones touch nearly every facet of our lives. The transformative effect of smart glasses can be equally dramatic, experts say.
Smart AR glasses will change how we shop, work, and learn Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutes I sat down digitally with Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs to talk about his new tabletop roleplaying game FRAME, currently gearing up for a Kickstarter campaign later this month. I wanted to learn where the game’s concept came from and how Spencer drew upon the sci fi genre to build a speculative fiction narrative within the medium of a roleplaying game.
Reading Time: 2 minutes “The Forest Bride: A Fairy Tale with Benefits” by Jane Buehler is a cozy, sexy, fantasy romance that follows Princess Rose through a series of challenging, sometimes terrifying, events that ultimately lead her on a journey of love and self-discovery.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The spring flash fiction submission cycle opens today. Stories can be submitted anytime from now until April 1, 2021.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hayley Arceneaux will become the first astronaut with a prosthetic limb when she goes into space later this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission.
Cancer survivor heading to space as part of all-civilian crew Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards yesterday, and RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships was selected as the best fantasy novel of the year.
Reading Time: 4 minutes On Feb. 11, 2021, the sixth International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new Forever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century.
New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Looking at least one decade into the future, I believe we will see significant advancements in three areas by 2030 as a result of AI — personal assistance devices, genomics, and space exploration.
Where One Vulnerability Researcher Sees AI in 2030 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes NASA has been releasing photos as they arrive from Mars and they are awesome.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes On Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at the red planet, and hopefully will place the Perseverance Rover on the surface.
Perseverance lands tomorrow; lead scientist explains tech and goals Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lagoon, through its shapeshifting alien protagonist, challenges long-held ideas of how gender and sexual identities are considered in Africa.
Aliens in Lagos: sci-fi novel Lagoon offers a bold new future Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you “grok” jargon? Does your “filk” contain references to “BEM”s or “BDO”s? And do the goings-on in Washington make you want to go into “cryostasis” in your “hobbit-hole”?
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Reading Time: 6 minutes I learned by listening. Dad and his friends did not know it then, but they were describing their experiences with double-consciousness, living as a Black man in a white-dominated society.
Is the Double-Consciousness of ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison Still Relevant Today? Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes The head of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins had joined forces with Harvard University professor David Liu and others to tackle progeria, a genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly.
New CRISPR technology could revolutionize gene therapy Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chris Miller, with The Damned Place, has written a novel that deserves to launch beyond the trappings of indie horror and into the stratosphere.
Reading Time: 4 minutes To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” the physicist writes in a new book.
Ten ‘Keys to Reality from Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes While more progress is being made all the time in artificial intelligence, some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable superintelligent AI.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The U. S. Postal Service announced its new lineup of stamps for 2021, and sci-fi legend Ursula K. Le Guin is the latest addition to the Literary Arts series.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps our contemporary crises brought it back into my mind, as the events of the book take place in the wake of a devastating pandemic that has swept across America, sparing only those under the age of twelve.
‘The Girl Who Owned A City’ Asks What Would Happen if Only Children Survived a Pandemic Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nalo Hopkinson is the first black woman to win the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for her lifetime achievements in science fiction and fantasy writing.
Nalo Hopkinson is first black woman and youngest winner of Grand Master award Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Every Thursday, Epic offers a PC game for free. Yesterday that was Stardock Games’ Galactic Civilizations 3, a critically-acclaimed, popular game that’s like Sid Meier’s Civilization, but in space. Other differences include the fact that you can play the game in multi-player mode, battling your friends for control of the galaxy. That’s nice, considering that,
Galactic Civilizations 3 is free from Epic this week Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Reading science fiction and fantasy may help young people cope, especially with the stress and anxiety of living through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Science fiction builds mental resiliency in young readers Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes I just finished “Renna’s Crossing” by Geordie Morse and was surprised, and humbled, by the author’s approach to gender issues.
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Reading Time: 6 minutes If you’re hoping or fearing that new technology can put you in a Matrix-style virtual environment — it’s not happening in 2021, judging by what we saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Grist, a publication that focuses on climate, sustainability and social justice has announced a contest for short stories that focus on climate change. Entry is free, the deadline is April 12, and the short stories should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length. “We’re embracing the opportunity to look beyond the confines of the
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Matter might not be made of particles or waves, as was long thought, butm more fundamentally, of fragments of energy.
Reading Time: 22 minutes Have you ever stared at your screen or typewriter or notebook and couldn’t force yourself to write? I have, and here’s what I do to fix it.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives, both in the workplace and at home. Some AI experts are stressing the need to focus on making AI ethical and keeping it human friendly. Bias in programming, security concerns, and a lack of public knowledge about how AI works are all issues that
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just because mermaids are not real does not mean they are not meaningful.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The global artificial intelligence market is expected to grow by 46.2% from 2019 to 2025. That type of growth can’t be matched by almost any other industry in the world. Artificial intelligence solutions are particularly relevant for the IT, healthcare, automotive, and manufacturing sectors. However, practically all other businesses can find a use for this
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wondering what some of your favorite fantasy, horror, and sci-fi writers have been up to on Instagram? Here’s a short but sweet list of popular speculative fiction author’s Instagram accounts.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes A quiet revolution is taking place in the global space industry and its full impact on global space industry should be measured over the next decade.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes If you haven’t seen this excellent movie yet, go watch it on HBO Max, then come back. I’ll wait.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I came for Tony Shalhoub and I was not disappointed.
Reading Time: 3 minutes One thing we learned from 2020 is not to trust AI facial recognition –it’s biased against race and gender.
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