Happy New Year everyone! I figured this was a good time to lay out my writing plans for the year for the benefit of friends & fans. To start with, some bad news: I have decided that for 2018, I will not be producing new installments in the Wyrd West Chronicles. My reasons for this […]
Read More My Writing Plans for 2018By Susan Defreitas The Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz, highfalutin’ literary author though he may be, has famously mourned the fact that there will be no more Octavia Butler books. The iconic Black author, who won both a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur “Genius” grant—not to mention the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Locus—died in 2006, leaving […]
Read More Octavia’s Daughters: Meet the New Queens of Spec FicThe Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the High Fantasy Reading Challenge, and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. Stephen King describes this as “Dark Tower 4.5,” so this is the sequence I chose to read it in for my re-read. […]
Read More Book Review: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen KingBy Rich Haridy A team at MIT has genetically modified bacteria cells and developed a new 3D printing technique to create a “living tattoo” that can respond to a variety of stimuli. Electronic tattoos and smart ink technologies are showing exciting potential for reframing how we think of wearable sensor devices. While many engineers are experimenting with a variety […]
Read More 3D Printed Live Bacteria Creates World’s First “Living Tattoo”By Adam Fitzgerald Encountering Samuel R. Delany’s work, for me at least, can be described in two phases (more like paroxysms): the first is being so overcome by the true presence of a genius or polymath writer, the endless fertility and ease through which he has made each genre indelibly his own (science fiction, literary […]
Read More Don’t Romanticize Science Fiction: An Interview with Samuel DelanyCat is writing a series of articles about the SFWA and the relationship of indie writers to the organization. I am reblogging it here because I know that other SFF indie authors will want to know! By Cat Rambo, current President of the SFWA As part of a Twitter conversation, one of my favorite gamewriters, […]
Read More History of the SFWAI hope this holiday season brings you food, friends and family (in that order; sometimes family is a mixed blessing!) However you choose to celebrate, Happy Holidays! Enjoy this awesome playlist I found of geekish holiday songs and videos! And may you and yours find all the best in the New Year! (And by the […]
Read More Happy Holidays!By Universe Today In the past decade, the rate at which extra-solar planets have been discovered and characterized has increased prodigiously. Because of this, the question of when we might explore these distant planets directly has repeatedly come up. In addition, the age-old question of what we might find once we get there – i.e. […]
Read More The Genesis Project Plans to Use Robots to Seed the Galaxy With LifeBlessed Solstice to all of you who choose to celebrate, and may the next year bring you all the joy of your heart! If you want to listen to some Yule music that my friends and I made, here you go! Otherwise, enjoy this clip of the Harry Potter Yule Ball music:
Read More Happy Solstice!Just a gentle reminder that the next installment in the Wyrd West Chronicles, The Reaping, is coming out tomorrow. You might be interested to know this one is not a novelette, but a full-length novella! Today is your last chance to pre-order and your last chance to take advantage of my Wyrd West sale! You […]
Read More New Release in the Wyrd West Chronicles!
