Nova by Samuel R. Delany My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for The Second Best Challenge, the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This book was nominated for the 1969 Hugo Award. I think I really like New Wave sci-fi. This book was an excellent retelling of Moby […]
Read More Book Review: Nova by Samuel R. DelanyPavane by Keith Roberts My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. Who’s this Keith Roberts guy? I wondered. I had never heard of him. But lots of people I had heard of had, because they all did blurbs for this edition of this book: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, […]
Read More Book Review: Pavane by Keith RobertsI’m celebrating my book release and doing a fall Patreon membership drive, and I’m putting some pretty skookum prizes on the line! LINK TO ENTER HERE! Contest runs from September 15 to September 30, 2018. My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/SableAradia HOW IT WORKS: Join my Patreon at any level! (See link above, in the video endscreen & video […]
Read More Fall Patreon Drive & Giveaway!By N.J. Schrock In my backyard, I have a tree whose fruit is colored bottles, and it serves a useful purpose. The bottles trap and kill evil spirits. During the night, evil spirits wander into the bottles, and they can’t find their way out—basically like a lobster trap for spirits. Then, when the morning sunlight […]
Read More On Writing MisteriosoYou may have heard that my story “The Android Graveyard” was accepted to the Terra! Tara! Terror! anthology from Third Flatiron. So it’s now available for pre-order! You can get it here. There’s an amazing plethora of great authors in this collection, and we’re even featuring a special reprint from Robert Silverberg! I can’t wait! […]
Read More Terra! Tara! Terror! is Available for Pre-OrderBy Eric Klein Today we have a special treat, a holiday weekend extra interview with Diane Morrison here to tell us about her novel Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd West (part of the Wyrd West Chronicles). Can you describe your world or setting? The Wyrd West is a post-apocalyptic setting in which technology has become unreliable […]
Read More Feature Friday Futures: Wyrd WestOnce Upon a Time in the Wyrd West by Diane Morrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the long-promised print collection of the first six of the Wyrd West Chronicles, originally written as an ebook serial. Some minor changes to the text have been made in order to facilitate the flow of a […]
Read More My Goodreads Book Review: Once Upon a Time in the Wyrd WestBy Rafi Letzter There’s a “hydrogen wall” at the edge of our solar system, and NASA scientists think their New Horizons spacecraft can see it. That hydrogen wall is the outer boundary of our home system, the place where our sun’s bubble of solar wind ends and where a mass of interstellar matter too small to bust […]
Read More NASA Spotted a Vast, Glowing ‘Hydrogen Wall’ at the Edge of Our Solar SystemBy Cat Rambo I’m finishing up the year by trying to wrap up writing the on-demand version of my Moving from Idea to Draft class. This is a tough translation, because the live class depends heavily on what the students have brought: I try to help them go deeper into the idea each has brought […]
Read More On Creating Story When You Only Have the Plot
