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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 9, 2022

Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has an alien invasion, a zombie apocalypse. magical druids, and a carpenter’s apprentice with no magic whatsoever. So he thinks.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Dec. 2, 2022

Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a series of magical shenanigans at the North Pole, a tale of EMP survival, and a retelling of Sleeping Beauty.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 25, 2022

Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a sexy thief with high-tech gadgets, a man with the date of his death tattooed on his hand, and a crime-solving dragon.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 11, 2022

Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list features fantasy warriors, creepy AIs, a fairy princess, shapeshifting reindeer, space accountants, and Sir Author Conan Doyle in the flesh.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Nov. 4, 2022

Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an EMP blast that takes out all power, a drunk fairy, a steampunk serial killer, and a motorhome that breaks down in a magical town in the middle of Australia’s outback.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 21, 2022

Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, witches, elves, fated mates, dragons, a post-apocalyptic world — and, just in time for the Halloween season, a haunted house!

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 30, 2022

Reading Time: 12 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list offers time travelers, vampires, space battles, and a Old West vampire hunter with magic charms.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 23, 2022

Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list offers us an alien king, a fae assassin, a murderous pirate, and a mystery-solving witch.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 9, 2022

Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a wicked prince, a dragon slayer, a school for magic, a crime-solving psychic, magical tattoos, and two different apocalypses.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 26, 2022

Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes magic, werewolves, vampires, super-intelligent animals, and an alien battle in outer space.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 12, 2022

Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes fae princes, telekinetic witches, angels, a demonic private eye, a couple of different dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, and zombies.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 29, 2022

Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes mystery, galactic empires, a mermaid, dark magic, post apocalyptic survival, and lots of romance.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 22, 2022

Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes wizards, space fleet battles, bridges to other worlds, a sexy shape-shifting crocodile, and dragons.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 8, 2022

Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes EMP survival, changelings, a cozy magical mystery, a supernatural apocalypse, and a snarky magical private eye.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 1, 2022

Reading Time: 14 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has galactic empire science fiction, occult suspense, a cozy paranormal mystery, vampires, genetic alteration, and lots of romance.

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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Feb. 25, 2022

Reading Time: 17 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space battles, time travel, werewolves, more space battles, retold fairytales, first contact, more time travel, alien lovers, and cupcakes.

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Experts: Ethics a must in AI

Reading Time: 5 minutesArtificial intelligence is increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives, both in the workplace and at home. Some AI experts are stressing the need to focus on making AI ethical and keeping it human friendly. Bias in programming, security concerns, and a lack of public knowledge about how AI works are all issues that

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AI expert: Don’t fear the robot apocalypse

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith talks of large companies investing in AI weapons, brain-chips being developed to enhance soldiers, and the head of the British armed forces saying that robot soldiers could make up a quarter of the army by the 2030s, people might have some doubts about where this is all going — a recent survey citing twelve percent of Americans see the possibility of human extinction.

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