I’m offering livestreamed readings of Homefront strictly for my Patrons! $2 or up per month gets you the audio packages, which includes Mp3 audio files of my stories; and this month, that includes live readings of my new Toy Soldier Saga novella Homefront. I will be reading one chapter per night at 8 pm Pacific […]
Read More Livestreamed Readings of Homefront!By Maria Avxentevskaya People have been dreaming about space travel for hundreds of years, long before the arrival of the spectacular technologies behind space exploration today – mighty engines roaring fire and thunder, shiny metal shapes gliding in the vastness of the universe. We’ve only travelled into space in the last century, but humanity’s desire to […]
Read More How 17th Century Dreamers Planned to Reach the MoonIt’s finally release day for the On the Horizon Book Bundle! If you haven’t got your copy yet, you can get it here: https://amzn.to/2HMH56H or here: https://www.books2read.com/u/bQBgZP. And why wouldn’t you want a copy of this awesome set? 22 novellas and novels by 21 different authors in worlds of low or no tech! Features my […]
Read More On the Horizon RELEASE DAY!By Beth McCabe Long before Hollywood started letting Charlize Theron, Zoe Saldana, Emily Blunt, Gal Gadot et. al. play kick-ass roles, little girls dreamed of power. When I was growing up, comic book heroes were male. Heck, everyone of consequence in our world was male. Publishers tried to get us to buy Supergirl and Batgirl, but we weren’t […]
Read More Two Cents on HeroesWe have reached a turning point in society. According to renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, the next 100 years of science will determine whether we perish or thrive. Will we remain a Type 0 civilization, or will we advance and make our way into the stars? Experts assert that, as a civilization grows larger and becomes more advanced, its […]
Read More The Kardashev ScaleBy Peter Dockrill They found the first ones in Japan. Hidden in the soil at a plastics recycling plant, researchers unearthed a microbe that had evolved to eat the soda bottles dominating its habitat, after you and I throw them away. That discovery was announced in 2016, and scientists have now gone one better. While examining how the […]
Read More Scientists Accidentally Create Plastic-Eating EnzymeDr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Challenge, the Apocalypse Now! Challenge, and the SF Masterworks Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: nuclear war I am not a fan of PKD; I think those who follow my reviews probably know that by now. I don’t […]
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? Welcome to another Friday Author Spotlight! This week Diane Morrison is here to tell us about her novel, Homefront, which is part of the On the Horizon Bundle. She’ll also be sharing an excerpt from her book, so keep reading! Diane Morrison lives with her partners in Vernon, BC, where…
When you hear the phrase “space war”, it is easy to conjure images that could have come from a Star Wars movie: dogfights in space, motherships blasting into warp speed, planet-killing lasers and astronauts with ray guns. And just as easy to then dismiss the whole thing as nonsense. It’s why last month’s call by President Trump […]
Read More Are We Ready for War in Space?
