Reading Time: 2 minutesChambers tells a hopeful story of the future — one where robots have gained sentience and humans have figured out how to live in harmony with the environment.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesHansel and Gretel’s love of sweets began long before they met the witch in the woods.
Reading Time: 11 minutesI take another stab at making AI books covers. And I make 28. Someone, stop me.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesArkady Martine won the most prestigious science fiction award last night for her novel A Desolation Called Peace, a follow-up to her novel A Memory Called Empire, which itself won a Hugo in 2020.
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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: 2 minutesScience fiction author Alexei Panshin, known for such novels as his Anthony Villiers series, Star Well, The Thurb Revolution, and Masque World passed away on Sunday, August 21. He was 82. His work has won several awards. His debut novel, Rite of Passage, published in 1969, won a Nebula Award and was nominated for a
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Reading Time: 18 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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 2, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday OpenAI announced a new feature — outpainting. It’s like cropping, but in the opposite direction. You can make an image bigger, and Dall-E 2’a AI automatically fills in the background of that image.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen one watches the PSA, one gets the feeling the film is a harbinger of things to come. Like, it’s their way of trying not to create a panic, but also getting to say, “Hey, we warned you.” Which seems very on-brand for our government.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI use Midjourney and Canva to create a couple of quick book covers.
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Reading Time: 12 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: 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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 26, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost folks say death on the premises is bad for business. For Hotel de Mort, it’s life.
Reading Time: 10 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: 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 shifting magnetic poles, first contact with aliens, magical private eyes, shapeshifters, a smuggler ship caught in the middle of an interstellar war, and a magic school student with no magic.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug 19, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesA telemarketing firm is struggling to make a profit. A star top biller is hired to turn the business around, but he presents a greater face of horror than the sight of a shrinking bottom line.
Reading Time: 6 minutesTepper’s science fiction often explored the toxicity of patriarchy which she often depicted as the justification behind the ruthless exploitation of alien planets.
that the earth and any planet mankind decides to take over is fair game for ruthless exploitation and destruction.
Feminist Science Fiction Writer Sheri Tepper Scrutinized Patriarchy with a Cudgel Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis past weekend, the winners of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s 2022 Aurora Awards were announced, honoring excellence in native Canadians and Landed Immigrants.
Reading Time: 16 minutesAn exiled fairy knight must lead a mismatched band of would-be heroes against the ultimate evil. The story is full of action, humor, and surprises. There are dwarves, fairies, magicians, an assortment of monsters… oh yeah, and some kids with a dog. What more can one want?
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.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 2022 Dragon Awards are coming up, and Dragon Con has just announced its finalists.
Finalists announced for 2022 Dragon Awards; Get ready to vote 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 fae princes, telekinetic witches, angels, a demonic private eye, a couple of different dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, and zombies.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 12, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesA magical take on the pain of not fitting in, and rising above it.
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: 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 dystopian future, murderous creepy mermaids, grim reapers, sexy aliens, and a six-thousand-year-old werewolf named Cain. Yup, THAT Cain.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 5, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesA new AI image generator called Midjourney offers images comparable in quality to Dall-E 2, but is open to the public.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEditor in Cheif of Wahlbeck Inc. Mark Wahlbeck recently released a Loom video to his discord community saying that he was going to pay writers $3000 for the rights to 30,000 words of science fiction.
Reading Time: 12 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 Jul. 31 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesAll NASA images are available for free, for any use — including commercial. They’re particularly great for background images on sci-fi author websites.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMetaStellar’s first anthology is out today, a collection of short stories from our first year of publication.
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.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 29, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesA woman stands two metres from a public paying water tap, dying of thirst in a water-scarce world rife with corporate/government corruption and global resource warfare.
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been collecting AI-powered image generation tools for the past year and one has become my go-to over the past couple of weeks — Craiyon (formerly Dall-E Mini).
10 tips for the free Craiyon AI image generator (formerly Dall-E Mini) Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesOne of the videos from this year’s AuthorTube Writing Conference was so impactful that it deserved to be spotlighted in its own article. The main idea? Stop doing all the things.
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Reading Time: 10 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 minutesMulti-award-winning hard science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer new book The Downloaded is coming out later this year, and it will be out in audiobook first. In fact, Audible is getting an exclusive for the first six months, before the print and ebook versions come out.
July Meeting of the WPL’s Science Fiction Book Club – WWW: Wake 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 wizards, space fleet battles, bridges to other worlds, a sexy shape-shifting crocodile, and dragons.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 22, 2022 Read More »
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.
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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 post apocalyptic multi world traveling, cozy magical mystery, horror, werewolves, high fantasy, and a superhero.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 15, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesHorror in an undersea refuge with an acrostic and deliberate reference to Shakespeare thrown in for good measure.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNASA just released the first images from the world’s most powerful and largest space telescope, and it gives us a mind-numbing view of the cosmos.
James Webb Telescope Reveals a Galaxy of Galaxies Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesSonic the Hedgehog 2 is a Sonic fan’s dream, with heavy action scenes, as well as winks and nods to the franchise’s history.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 goes fast, hits some speed bumps Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutesBirth of the Anima, Kelsey K. Sather’s debut novel, is an ambitious ecological myth in the vein of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth books, with extensive lore and dozens upon dozens of characters that interweave throughout the narrative.
Birth of the Anima: An Ambitious, Though Unfocused, Ecological Fable Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat if, one million years from now, Hitler is paroled from Hell?
Reading Time: 12 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: 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 a zombie PI, a supernatural bounty hunter, witches, spaceships, vampires, epic fantasy, and an EMP apocalypse.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 8, 2022 Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn March 4, 2022, a rocket booster crashed into the Moon and left a unique mark: not one, but two craters.
Reading Time: 10 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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