This was a livestream of how sorting through Baen’s slush pile works. I think it’s excellent insight on how publishing companies select the work they want to publish. On the other hand, it pisses me off. Publishers say they want the whole manuscript done and run through an editor before you query. So chances are […]
Read More Inside Baen’s Slush PileThe Road by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now Reading Challenge. For me, this book was a resounding meh. I have read an awful lot of post-apocalyptic fiction. For me, Pulitzer Prize or not, this book added nothing new to the genre. It’s beautifully written, don’t get me […]
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Read More My New Patreon Video!By Andrew Masterson The technological challenges involved in sending a crewed mission to Mars are daunting, but new research highlights the need to focus on the psychology of spaceflight to prevent world’s first Mars explorers arriving at their destination stark raving crazy. A paper in the journal American Psychologist reviews the already extensive research done by NASA into […]
Read More How to Get to Mars Without Going MadBy Ryan Plummer and Madeleine Monson-Rosen Speculative fiction is the literature of change and discovery. But every now and then, a book comes along that changes the rules of science fiction and fantasy for everybody. Certain great books inspire scores of authors to create something new. Here are 21 of the most influential science fiction and […]
Read More 21 Books That Changed Sci-fi & Fantasy ForeverBy Cat Rambo, President, SFWA I will add more pictures in later, editing them in as they get processed. For now, I want to record some of my thoughts and memories from the past weekend and the Nebula Awards conference weekend, before a brand-new weekend eclipses any part of the splendor. Kudoes to the Science Fiction […]
Read More The Merqueen’s Report: Nebula Awards Weekend, 2018Here’s the archive of my appearance on the Pagan-Musings Podcast. It’s very off-the-cuff! This is probably is the closest to how I am IRL that I’ve heard on a podcast because I was so relaxed. Enjoy! Author Diane Morrison, aka Sable Aradia, returns to the show to talk fiction and nonfiction. She’s been hard at […]
Read More I Was on the Pagan-Musings PodcastNon-Stop by Brian W. Aldiss My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This was an extremely interesting book. A generation ship suffers a major plague, and the resulting society changes, to the point where the descendants of the original crew lack the […]
Read More Book Review: Non-Stop by Brian W. AldissHappy book anniversary to me! To celebrate I made a trailer for it. Food on Their Table Book Trailer (post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, dystopia, cli-fi, horror). Get it at https://amzn.to/2KKV4em
Read More Book Anniversary – Food on Their Table TrailerThe Bronze Skies by Catherine Asaro My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, the Read the Sequel Challenge, and the Space Opera Challenge. I have a great story to tell about this book before I can offer the review. I was putting together a panel on Speculative […]
Read More Book Review: The Bronze Skies by Catherine Asaro
