Where to find low-cost, pre-made covers for spec fic books
Reading Time: 10 minutesPre-made book cover sites offer low-cost, professional-looking covers for independent authors.
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Excerpt: Krim Times
Reading Time: 8 minutesOnce upon a time, there was a virtual world that was almost, but not quite, completely unlike 1500s England. The assassin peered out from the window overlooking Leadenhall Street. It was mid-day and there were plenty of targets. Local residents, mostly, but also a fair number of tourists and would-be adventurers looking for quests. The
Pandemic Bingewatch: Away
Reading Time: 2 minutesUpdate: Netflix is not picking up Away for a second season. I have to be honest. I’m not really the target audience for Netflix’ new science fiction drama, Away. Yes, it’s about humanity’s first manned mission to Mars. And yes, it stars Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank. Both of those things are great. But it’s
Preview: BBC takes on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
Reading Time: 3 minutesBBC America just released the first video previews of “The Watch,” a series based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and it’s not looking at all like what people were expecting.
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Pandemic Bingewatch: ‘What We Do In the Shadows’
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if “The Office” was staffed by vampires? Here’s the answer, folks.
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New VR camera delivered to space station
Reading Time: 2 minutesA new virtual reality camera was successfully delivered to the International Space Station today and will allow the astronauts to film spacewalks in VR.
Resources for writers
Reading Time: 4 minutesOur master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi.
Six things we will do with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, according to sci-fi
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast Friday, billionaire inventor Tony Stark — I mean, Elon Musk — showed off progress on his latest project, the Neuralink.
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New Terry Pratchett book out today
Reading Time: 2 minutesTerry Pratchett is one of my all-time favorite authors, and even though he died five years ago, a new book is now out, a collection of never-before-published short stories he wrote for local newspapers back in the 1960s and 1970s.
Brandon Sanderson’s writing lectures are free on YouTube
Reading Time: 2 minutesSci-fi and fantasy author Brandon Sanderson’s 13 hour-long “Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy” lectures are up on YouTube.
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Scientists: ‘Oumuamua may be alien after all
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Oumuamua, a weird interstellar object that was discovered passing through our solar system in 2017, might be alien after all.
Wormhole travel could be possible, scientists say
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to new research, it’s possible that we could have wormholes large and stable enough for humans to be able to travel to distant stars.
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Lava tubes on the Moon and Mars could be our future homes
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiving on the surface of the Moon, or of Mars, is dangerous. The lack of a protective atmosphere means that radiation is a constant hazard, for example. Lava tubes can be the solution, scientists say.
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Netflix sends Hilary Swank ‘Away’ to Mars
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetflix’s new show “Away”, the first 10-episode season of which drops Sept. 4, takes a realistic, personal approach to the first manned trip to Mars.
My vision of the future is wireless, and we’re one step closer
Reading Time: 2 minutesWireless power transmission is the future, but there are a lot of technical challenges to overcome.
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N. K. Jemisin’s Short Story Emergency Skin Wins 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s short story Emergency Skin was named the winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Novelette.
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A Memory Called Empire Wins the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Memory Called Empire, by Arkady Martine, wins the 2020 Hugo Award for best novel.
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14 Reasons to Use Google Docs to Write
Reading Time: 4 minutesHere are my top 14 reasons to try Google Docs, if you’re not using it yet.
Free book — first in the Lady Astronauts series
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of people in this group have talked about Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars. The book won the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2019 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2019 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. If you saw Hidden Figures
Writing Advice Sites
Reading Time: 5 minutesHere’s our list of great online resources and websites for speculative fiction authors.
Submit your book excerpt
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSubmit your book excerpt Do you have a fantasy, horror or science fiction book that just came out, or is about to come out? Send us an excerpt of your book, with an illustration, and links to where people can find out more.