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Chanda’s Legacy Pt. 5 by Dave Creek – FREE STORY
PREVIOUSLY: Earth Unity Ambassador Chanda Kasmira must deal with the potential damage to a Sobrenian starcraft that could spread to the station. Chanda’s lover, Ben Farrington, leads the medical response to the injured Sobrenians taken […]
Chanda’s Legacy Part 4 by Dave Creek – FREE STORY
CHANDA’S LEGACY PT. 4 PREVIOUSLY: Earth Unity Ambassador Chanda Kasmira must deal with the potential damage to a Sobrenian starcraft that could spread to the station. Chanda’s lover, Ben Farrington, leads the medical response to […]
Chanda’s Legacy Part 3 by Dave Creek – FREE STORY
PREVIOUSLY: Earth Unity Ambassador Chanda Kasmira must deal with the latest threat to the Station of the Lost, where she is assigned. The nanotech damage to a Sobrenian starcraft just arrived near the station […]
Chanda’s Legacy Part 1 by Dave Creek – FREE STORY
CHAPTER ONE. I remember the tension and fear at the arrival of the injured from the Sobrenian diplomatic ship as if it were still happening in front of me: — Auto-gurneys bringing in one […]
Impersonating Jesus by Michael Ventrella – FREE STORY
The best way to find out about the life of Jesus is to actually live it. Time travellers are doing just that. Are they interfering with time, or are their actions merely fulfilling the records […]
News
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Future, Releases the Hugo Voters Pack
In email received today from the 2024 Worldcon – Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Future, it was announced that the Hugo Voter’s Packet is now available for eligible voting members of the convention (which […]
AMAZING NEWS 5/19/24
Ed Dwight is finally going to space! The serialization of Dave Creek’s Chanda’s Legacy (Part 5) continues tomorrow! Also: Fan Ellen Klages will be a contestant on Jeopardy! this coming Wednesday, the 22nd AMAZING PEOPLE […]
Time Machine: May 19, 2024
AMAZING NEWS FROM FANDOM: May 19, 2024 Novedades de Mayo 1 New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance for MAY 15 The Big Idea: Samantha Mills REVIEW – GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE Matt’s Reviews: Anti-intellectualism in American […]
OpEd
Matt’s Reviews: Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Publish Date: 1969 Copyright Date: 1962 Pages: 434 Author: Richard Hofstadter ISBN (The version I read from the library pre-dated ISBN, but a more recent edition): ISBN13: 9780394703176 ISBN10: 0394703170 Anti-intellectualism […]
The Big Idea: José Pablo Iriarte
Author José Pablo Iriarte is here today to tell us a bit about his debut middle grade novel, Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed. Both his novel and his Big Idea feature a feeling many […]
The Big Idea: Zilka Joseph
The world is wider than we often know, with more people and communities in them than many of us have heard of before. In Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman, author Zilka […]
The Big Idea: Kerrie Faye
Sometimes as an author, you have to work to develop a character. And sometimes, they just… appear. Which of these did author Kerry Faye have happen for her novel Dead Girl? She’s here now to […]
Pluralistic: Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses
Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (permalink) Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything […]
Science Fiction
Heinlein’s Hardworking Heir: Long Lost Friends interview with sci-fi author Allen Steele
Welcome to another episode of Long Lost Friends, the Youtube show where E.E. King and Andrea Goyan engage with artists, writers, and fascinating individuals about the joys and challenges of creating and producing. Covering topics […]
What’s the Story Behind THE OMEGA MAN?
Source: What’s the Story Behind THE OMEGA MAN?
Chanda’s Legacy Pt. 5 by Dave Creek – FREE STORY
PREVIOUSLY: Earth Unity Ambassador Chanda Kasmira must deal with the potential damage to a Sobrenian starcraft that could spread to the station. Chanda’s lover, Ben Farrington, leads the medical response to the injured Sobrenians taken […]
CLUBHOUSE: Review: “Pale Grey Dot” by Don Miasek
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. Pale Grey Dot – by Don Miasek Publisher: Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, May 2024. Premise: Humanity has conquered the Solar System but failed to […]
Novedades de Mayo 1
LIBROS El 8 de mayo se presentó el libro « Otras formas de ser humano. Antología del Premio OEI de cuentos sobre ciencia ficción y tecnología » (Compañía Naviera Limitada Editores). El evento se llevó a cabo […]
Excerpt: Universe of Lost Messages by Janet Stilson
What if your child has extraordinary powers of charisma and can get people to do almost anything? What happens if the child is abducted? Izzie and Tristan were never mere humans. They are Charismites, with […]
CLUBHOUSE: Review: “The New Empire” by Alison McBain
OBIR: Occasional Biased and Ignorant Reviews reflecting this reader’s opinion. The New Empire – by Alison McBain Publisher: Woodhall Press, Norwalk, CT, USA, 2022. Cover art: Alison McBain Premise: In 1751, the youngest son of […]
Chanda’s Legacy Part 4 by Dave Creek – FREE STORY
CHANDA’S LEGACY PT. 4 PREVIOUSLY: Earth Unity Ambassador Chanda Kasmira must deal with the potential damage to a Sobrenian starcraft that could spread to the station. Chanda’s lover, Ben Farrington, leads the medical response to […]
Fantasy
The Big Idea: Laura R. Samotin
For The Sins On Their Bones, author Laura R. Samotin was challenged to do several tricky things at once in order to make the whole story work. And how were these things tricky things accomplished? […]
Matt’s (TV) Reviews: The Dresden Files
The Dresden Files TV Series is very loosely based on the series of books and comics by Jim Butcher. If you are a fan of those books, read this review before you watch the […]
Discussing the Merits of The Slow Burn (and Raymond E. Feist)
Last time out, I waxed lyrical about the first ever author who introduced me to the concept of the slow burn: Terry Brooks and his epic Shannara & Word of the Void series that have […]
Book View Cafe Readings: In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
The Big Idea: Shannon Page
For the Nightcraft series of books, of which The Empress and the Moon is a part, Shannon Page delved into a branch of arcana that eventually became the heart of her writing. Read on to […]
Science
Matt’s Reviews: Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Publish Date: 1969 Copyright Date: 1962 Pages: 434 Author: Richard Hofstadter ISBN (The version I read from the library pre-dated ISBN, but a more recent edition): ISBN13: 9780394703176 ISBN10: 0394703170 Anti-intellectualism […]
NASA Will Conduct An Interesting Operation This Thursday
On May 6th (at about 10:34 PM EDT) NASA will attempt to launch Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule to the ISS (a night time launch I hope to be able to see and film from my […]
NASA Telescopes Shed Light on Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
Fast radio bursts, a mysterious type of high-energy flash emanating from deep space, have perplexed scientists for years. We’re beginning to unravel the mystery thanks to extensive study with powerful telescopes and a little bit […]
Matt’s Reviews: Range: How Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein
Publisher: RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM Publication date: 04/27/2021 Pages: 368 ISBN: 9780735214507 Author: David Epstein Range: How Generalists Triumph In A Specialized World by David Epstein includes several real world examples […]
CONTRARY BRIN: Yet more Space News! And reasons for us to have some confidence.
There are so many reasons why we ought to refuse and reject the propaganda-against-confidence, out there. A better-than-expected economy? Dropping crime rates? A working vaccine against malaria and looming extinction for both the Guinea worm […]
Review: Architects of Worlds by Jon F. Zeigler
Ad Astra games soon to release Architect of Worlds by Jon F. Zeigler
Newly Discovered Ring of Galaxies Threatens Our Understanding of the Universe
A cosmic megastructure more than 9 billion light years away from Earth challenges what we know about the universe. A doctoral candidate at the United Kingdom’s University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has spotted a […]
Matt’s Reviews: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER TRADE Publication date: 04/02/1998 Pages: 256 Copyright Year: 1985 ISBN: 0-684-85394-9 Author: Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a […]
