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.Read More →
A new book by a features erotic stories across a number of genres, including sci-fi, cyberpunk and fantasy.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
“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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.Read More →
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.”Read More →
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.Read More →
Can the Save the Cat method release the hidden kitten in a crouching cat? That is, is the method applicable to shorter works?Read More →
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.Read More →
“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.Read More →
Here are seven books on Amazon with over a 100 positive reviews that will help you finish your writing project — are free to read with a Kindle Unlimited subscription.Read More →
Lagoon, through its shapeshifting alien protagonist, challenges long-held ideas of how gender and sexual identities are considered in Africa.Read More →
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”?Read More →
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.Read More →
Chris Miller, with The Damned Place, has written a novel that deserves to launch beyond the trappings of indie horror and into the stratosphere.Read More →
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.Read More →
I just finished “Renna’s Crossing” by Geordie Morse and was surprised, and humbled, by the author’s approach to gender issues.Read More →
If you haven’t seen this excellent movie yet, go watch it on HBO Max, then come back. I’ll wait.Read More →
I came for Tony Shalhoub and I was not disappointed.Read More →
I don’t consider myself a hard-core Trekkie by any means, but I sure have watched a lot of Star Trek. “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” or TNG, had its seven-season run when I was just a kid and I watched almost every episode as I was growing up, often with family.Read More →
Jenning’s debut novel stands out against her peers in a horrifying examination of family intersectionality, mental trauma, and compelling story-telling.Read More →
In William King’s tie-in novel, you can explore one of the World of Warcraft’s most cold-blooded villains, a night elf who goes by Illidan Stormrage.Read More →
Update: Netflix is not picking up Away for a second season. Pandemic Bingewatch: Away By Maria Korolov I have to be honest. I’m not really the target audience for Netflix’ new science fiction drama, Away. Yes, it’s about humanity’s first manned mission to Mars. And yes, it stars Academy Award-winningRead More →
BBC America just released the first video previews of “The Watch,” a series based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and it’s not looking at all like what people were expecting.Read More →
What if “The Office” was staffed by vampires? Here’s the answer, folks. Read More →
Come have a laugh with Dr. Shane.Read More →
If you live for reliable magic systems that still feel otherworldly and strange, then the Dreamblood duology is for you.Read More →
Terry Pratchett is one of my all-time favorite authors, and even though he died five years ago, a new book is now out, a collection of never-before-published short stories he wrote for local newspapers back in the 1960s and 1970s.Read More →
The “Umbrella Academy” series is worth your while if you love wacky, unique, funny stories that stretch the boundaries of genre and convention. Read More →
Netflix’s new show “Away”, the first 10-episode season of which drops Sept. 4, takes a realistic, personal approach to the first manned trip to Mars.Read More →
As Dune continues to work its way back into the social consciousness, I believe it is worth revisiting some of the novel’s core themes, and considering them in the light of 2020.Read More →
A couple of people in this group have talked about Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars. The book won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2019 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2019 Sidewise Award for Alternate History.Read More →