Reading Time: 4 minutesIf you enjoy first contact, hard science fiction, vast adventures, a writing style reminiscent of Frank Herbert and C. J. Cherryh, and funny characters, then I highly recommend this book!
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Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 20, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features a cyberpunk bounty hunter, selkies, time travelers, and a hellhound on a mission.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 18, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesTwitter has long been a friend to speculative fiction, with many sci-fi and fantasy authors and publications connecting with their audience on the platform. However, the turmoil sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition has caused some to have some serious concerns.
Reading Time: 3 minutesResidents of Canland — modern-day California — dedicate their lives to ecological restoration. The viewpoint character is a lovable, earnest youth with emotional disabilities.
Orphans of Canland is a rich and engaging tale of ecological disaster Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 13, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features fantasy warriors, creepy AIs, a fairy princess, shapeshifting reindeer, space accountants, and Sir Author Conan Doyle in the flesh.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 11, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing.
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Reading Time: 13 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Nov. 6, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an EMP blast that takes out all power, a drunk fairy, a steampunk serial killer, and a motorhome that breaks down in a magical town in the middle of Australia’s outback.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 4, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn intrepid crew of janitors is on a quest to save the world.
Terminal Peace Is Excellent, or, why Jim C. Hines is uninvited from my birthday party Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 30, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes cozy mystery, EMP, aliens, lots of witches, time travel, and a mermaid.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 28, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou get captivating characters. Spooky settings. Plots that tangle you up with intrigue. And best of all — there’s often a gut punch of an ending.
The Top 4 Horror stories on MetaStellar — brilliantly spooky Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 23, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, witches, elves, fated mates, dragons, a post-apocalyptic world — and, just in time for the Halloween season, a haunted house!
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 21, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt has the gritty noir of an old detective novel, the gruesome excitement of a Tarantino movie, plenty of dangerous women, heist elements, and tons of grimdark characters. It takes place in the seedy magical underbelly of Las Vegas.
The Hate Machine by Stephen Blackmoore — an exciting & gritty noir urban fantasy Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesFake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavorting in their garden.
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 16, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes dragons, EMP, magic, Viking romance, a ghost hunter, and a post apocalyptic world.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 14, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesRegardless of how they frighten us, one thing’s for sure—these stories all have impact.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe fact of the matter is that this book is fun, packs an emotional punch that caught me quite seriously off-guard, and is a tremendous finale on the Heroine Complex series.
Karens and Kaijus and Christmas, Oh My! Sarah Khun’s Holiday Heroine Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 9, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesApple’s much anticipated augmented and virtual reality headset and the new Meta headset may be way out of reach for the average user.
Apple and Meta’s pricy new headsets about to release Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes racist elves, alien centipedes, a clever teenage thief,
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 7, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis novel helped me pinpoint several misconceptions that I had about writing fiction. I hope you find my lessons helpful.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay: 9 Lessons from the Best Stand-Alone Fantasy Novel of All Time Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 2, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesScience fiction writers have always been ahead of the game when it comes to predicting the future. Here are some inventions that are ready for the public now or will be soon.
Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list offers time travelers, vampires, space battles, and a Old West vampire hunter with magic charms.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 30, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe viral Dall-E 2 AI image generator is now open to all.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2022 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form.
Fall 2022 Call for Submissions Opens October 1st Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 25, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list offers us an alien king, a fae assassin, a murderous pirate, and a mystery-solving witch.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 23, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe combination of human creativity and the efficient functionality of AI will bring radical changes across the globe.
How humans and AI can learn to work together for the planet Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 18, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a 12-year-old looking forward to combat training, a reluctant witch, an assassin of gods who’d rather be a burlesque danger, a crime-solving ghost, and a man with no memory on an abandoned space station.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 16, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Hugo Award-winning Hades, developed and published by SuperGiant Games, puts players in the role of Zagreus, the son of the Greek God of the Underworld, as he fights wave after wave of enemies to escape the Underworld and find his birth mother, Persephone. Hades is probably one of the most difficult games to have
In SuperGiant Games’ Hades, Players will Die, Die, and Die Again Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs an author, I’ve found grounding my science fiction in reality produces a more layered, immersive tale. Science fiction stories often occur in space. So, sci-fi readers and authors may appreciate this introduction to a relevant real-world organization, the United States Space Force, or USSF. The US Space Force Is No Joke Perhaps the first
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 11 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a wicked prince, a dragon slayer, a school for magic, a crime-solving psychic, magical tattoos, and two different apocalypses.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 9, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesChambers tells a hopeful story of the future — one where robots have gained sentience and humans have figured out how to live in harmony with the environment.
Becky Chamber’s Hugo-winning “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” offers hope for the apocalypse Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesI take another stab at making AI books covers. And I make 28. Someone, stop me.
What I learned today while making 28 covers with Midjourney and Canva Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesArkady Martine won the most prestigious science fiction award last night for her novel A Desolation Called Peace, a follow-up to her novel A Memory Called Empire, which itself won a Hugo in 2020.
Arkady Martine wins for best novel at Hugo Awards in Chicago Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 4 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesScience fiction author Alexei Panshin, known for such novels as his Anthony Villiers series, Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World passed away on Sunday, August 21. He was 82. His work has won several awards. His debut novel, Rite of Passage, published in 1969, won a Nebula Award and was nominated for a
Alexei Panshin, Author Of The Anthony Villiers Series, Dies at Age 82 Read More »
Reading Time: 18 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fae princes, telekinetic witches, angels, a demonic private eye, a couple of different dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, and zombies.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 2, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday OpenAI announced a new feature — outpainting. It’s like cropping, but in the opposite direction. You can make an image bigger, and Dall-E 2’a AI automatically fills in the background of that image.
How to use Dall-E 2’s new outpainting tool to make book covers Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen one watches the PSA, one gets the feeling the film is a harbinger of things to come. Like, it’s their way of trying not to create a panic, but also getting to say, “Hey, we warned you.” Which seems very on-brand for our government.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI use Midjourney and Canva to create a couple of quick book covers.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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