Reading Time: 2 minutes NavyCon, the premier science fiction and national security conference, returns for its fourth edition inviting speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including all five branches of the service, as well as civilian academia and science fiction fandom, to present on topics within the theme of national security in transition.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Two Venus missions will be launched some time between 2028 and 2030, instead of missions to the moons of Jupiter and Neptune. What are we missing out on as a result?
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 supersoldiers, druids, witches, vampires, sorcerers, mermaids, and an invisible man.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 4, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 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 alien worlds, shape shifters, witches, and lots and lots of romance.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 28, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes “The Ballad of Black Tom” holds all the cosmic horror of the Lovecraft mythos, and places it deftly amid the very real horrors of life for a young black man in a racist society.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes On May 9, Amazon pulled the Star Wars novel “Heart of the Jedi,” from sale on its online retailer. While there is no official statement from Amazon or Lucasfilm as to the matter, one can hypothesize that Disney took action against the selling of an unauthorized Star Wars book.
A Blow to the Rebels: Amazon pulls unauthorized “Star Wars” novel Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Do you want Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand? Thanks to 3D printing technology, soon you will be able to have it.
Reading Time: 17 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 an alien invasion, post-apocalyptic survival, a werewolf romance, and a paranormal cozy mystery.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 21, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Transhumanists predict that science will enable us to free our minds from bodily constraints. But these ideas actually date back to the 18th century.
Reading Time: 37 minutes How to use free and low-cost AI tools to create cool images for websites and social media.
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 a gay romance between a vampire and a were-beaver, lots and lots of dragons, and three magical cozy mysteries.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 15, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 26 minutes I try out the top 15 free online mind mapping apps.
Reading Time: 14 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 shape-shifting dragon, zombies, elves, and vampire assassins.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 7, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes More Black writers and artists are turning to science fiction — and an artistic movement known as Afrofuturism — to tackle issues around race and inequality and give fans an escape from the harsh realities on Earth.
Afrofuturism: The Rise of Black Science Fiction and Fantasy Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutes How the use the free Miro app to outline your story or novel.
Reading Time: 6 minutes The results of MetaStellar’s first submission cycle of 2021 are in, and we at MetaStellar are thrilled to announce the success of our second original fiction submission cycle.
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 aliens, a fairy tale with a big bad wolf, magical mysteries, and a collapse of civilization.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 30, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes If and when they eradicate humans, they would be better suited to space travel. In orbit, octopuses could maneuver much more easily and fit in smaller spaces.
Could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space? Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now in Kindle Unlimited, which means that if you’re a member, you can read this magazine at no additional cost.
Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now on Kindle Unlimited Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 23, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space.
Gideon the Ninth — ‘Show them what the Ninth House does!’ Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 16, 2021 Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 9, 2021 Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 2, 2021 Read More »
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.
What is Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited and how is it different from Prime Reading? Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 26, 2021 Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 19, 2021 Read More »
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?
Kittens need saving, too: How Blake Snyder’s beats can work for short stories Read More »
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 12, 2021 Read More »
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.
Buehler’s ‘The Forest Bride’ will satisfy your craving for fantasy romance Read More »
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.
The first Mars photos from Perseverance are here Read More »
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”?
How Old is ‘Warp Drive?’ Where was ‘Zap Gun’ First Used? Read More »
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 »
