Reading Time: 9 minutesTwitter has long been a friend to speculative fiction, with many sci-fi and fantasy authors and publications connecting with their audience on the platform. However, the turmoil sparked by Elon Musk’s acquisition has caused some to have some serious concerns.
Reading Time: 23 minutesIn 1968, mage Artemis West has a dull government job double-checking the bindings of ancient demons. Only someone’s just set one of them free. With the help of a teenage vagabond girl, Artemis has to catch a cosmic horror or America won’t make it to 1969.
Reading Time: 3 minutesResidents of Canland — modern-day California — dedicate their lives to ecological restoration. The viewpoint character is a lovable, earnest youth with emotional disabilities.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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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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Reading Time: 7 minutesA damaged android is abandoned on a junk world, where she finds a society of androids who had been discarded by humanity.
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDoes the value of true peace transcend the means of its own achievement?
Reading Time: 13 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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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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Reading Time: 19 minutesAs many faithful gather to worship their gods, another group gather for something else.
One sees it as a sermon with a dead audience,the rest see it as an unholy sacrifice to a malevolent entity. Terrible,but necessary in order to end their suffering.
Reading Time: 15 minutesMr. Frabbit is a new man on new medication. His days of hallucinating blue cats are behind him. Now he can look forward to returning to work. On his first day on the job, he is alarmed to be having hallucinations of miniature trains. This is new. Mr. Frabbit begins to question if his medication has been successful.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn intrepid crew of janitors is on a quest to save the world.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 30, 2022 Read More »
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 cozy mystery, EMP, aliens, lots of witches, time travel, and a mermaid.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 28, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou get captivating characters. Spooky settings. Plots that tangle you up with intrigue. And best of all — there’s often a gut punch of an ending.
The Top 4 Horror stories on MetaStellar — brilliantly spooky Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 23, 2022 Read More »
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!
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 21, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesThis is a story about monsters, mothers, zombies, and a dinosaur that might save or destroy the world.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt has the gritty noir of an old detective novel, the gruesome excitement of a Tarantino movie, plenty of dangerous women, heist elements, and tons of grimdark characters. It takes place in the seedy magical underbelly of Las Vegas.
The Hate Machine by Stephen Blackmoore — an exciting & gritty noir urban fantasy Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesFake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavorting in their garden.
Reading Time: 13 minutesWhere past and future meet, often it’s those living in the present that feel most conflicted.
Reading Time: 6 minutesA siren’s song offers peace amidst a terrible storm.
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 16, 2022 Read More »
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 dragons, EMP, magic, Viking romance, a ghost hunter, and a post apocalyptic world.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 14, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesRegardless of how they frighten us, one thing’s for sure—these stories all have impact.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe fact of the matter is that this book is fun, packs an emotional punch that caught me quite seriously off-guard, and is a tremendous finale on the Heroine Complex series.
Karens and Kaijus and Christmas, Oh My! Sarah Khun’s Holiday Heroine Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Oct. 9, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesApple’s much anticipated augmented and virtual reality headset and the new Meta headset may be way out of reach for the average user.
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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 racist elves, alien centipedes, a clever teenage thief,
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Oct. 7, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutesButter won’t melt in her mouth – and neither, therefore, will butter cookies. An Undercover Secret Agent (upper case hers), recruited by the far-flung planets Government after a solar system-wide call for applications, brings down the Underworld (upper case theirs) by pretending to be a Pillar of Society.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis novel helped me pinpoint several misconceptions that I had about writing fiction. I hope you find my lessons helpful.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay: 9 Lessons from the Best Stand-Alone Fantasy Novel of All Time Read More »
Reading Time: 9 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesScience fiction writers have always been ahead of the game when it comes to predicting the future. Here are some inventions that are ready for the public now or will be soon.
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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Reading Time: 6 minutesThe viral Dall-E 2 AI image generator is now open to all.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fall 2022 submission cycle for original speculative fiction begins on October 1 and closes at midnight on October 31. We’re looking for your best enthralling, imaginative, or bone-chilling original fiction stories, as long as they’re 1,200 words or fewer. Please visit our flash fiction submission page for full details and the online submission form.
Fall 2022 Call for Submissions Opens October 1st Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 25, 2022 Read More »
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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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe combination of human creativity and the efficient functionality of AI will bring radical changes across the globe.
How humans and AI can learn to work together for the planet Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Sep. 18, 2022 Read More »
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 12-year-old looking forward to combat training, a reluctant witch, an assassin of gods who’d rather be a burlesque danger, a crime-solving ghost, and a man with no memory on an abandoned space station.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 16, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Hugo Award-winning Hades, developed and published by SuperGiant Games, puts players in the role of Zagreus, the son of the Greek God of the Underworld, as he fights wave after wave of enemies to escape the Underworld and find his birth mother, Persephone. Hades is probably one of the most difficult games to have
In SuperGiant Games’ Hades, Players will Die, Die, and Die Again Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesAs an author, I’ve found grounding my science fiction in reality produces a more layered, immersive tale. Science fiction stories often occur in space. So, sci-fi readers and authors may appreciate this introduction to a relevant real-world organization, the United States Space Force, or USSF. The US Space Force Is No Joke Perhaps the first
Reading Time: 8 minutesBioengineering armies of killer mutants to fight the War against Evil is a growth industry in 28th Century Australia.
Reading Time: 8 minutesI subscribe to more than a hundred writing advice sites and YouTube channels and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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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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