Drive, It Said
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe story of a ride-share gone really weird. A little bit noir, a little bit sci-fi, a little bit romance.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 26
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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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 24, 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 fairies, vampires, werewolves, a magic school, demons, and highlands time travel.
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Metallosis
Reading Time: 22 minutesA post-apocalyptic story that mixes cyberpunk with biopunk. It conveys the message of maintaining your humanity while surrounded by so much technology (so much that it feels that you’re becoming a cyborg yourself).
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 19
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 17, 2022
Reading Time: 11 minutesWe read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, zombies, vampires, gothic horror, romance, monsters who live in the woods, and lots of magic.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 12
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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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 10, 2022
Reading Time: 11 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, nordic myth and legend, vampires, time travel, action and adventure, wizards, and space exploration.
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Asexuals of the Cosmos, Unite!
Reading Time: 15 minutesA darkly humorous sci-fi tale of a federation of aliens on a cosmic mission to ‘a-sex’ civilizations throughout the universe, including Earth’s. After reading this piece, you will never think of UFO abduction stories in the same way again.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Jun. 6
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Jun. 3, 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 includes space opera, angels and demons, witches, fairies, and plenty of sexy supernatural action.
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The Wedding Party
Reading Time: 8 minutesFinding lonely sanctuary in the woods the protagonist finds the only company he has is the waterlogged wedding party bobbing in the pond.
Corvid King Seeks Perfect Wife
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor the King it is love at first sight, but can love, no matter how intense and generous, be forced?
The Uryuom Plight
Reading Time: 3 minutesTrapped on a backward planet hundreds of light-years from home, a brave astronaut hides in plain sight among the resident aliens and laments the dying world he left behind.
Nebula 2022 Awards honor new and emerging writers
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew and emerging writers as well as some familiar names received the recognition they were due this month at the 2022 Nebula Awards awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the 2022 Nebula Award recipients, covering science fiction and fantasy novels, novellas, short stories, and games.
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For Love, I Tear
Reading Time: 4 minutesA not-quite-human entity roams the world, hoping to find true love before her kind is erased from existence.
Lightning Between Your Fingers
Reading Time: 17 minutesA sordid tale of vice and corruption takes shape as Knight-Sister Arlise Dun investigates the mysterious death of courtesan Emerei Dawson.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 29
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 27, 2022
Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list has space-traveling telepaths, mystery-solving witches, vampires, zombies, FBI agents tackling supernatural horrors, and a lust demon.
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Twinkle Twinkle
Reading Time: 5 minutesA mother, son, and grandmother evacuate a dark, frozen planet earth but dread something even worse.
Six Things you can Build with a Radish when You’re only One Inch Tall
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you’re married to a witch don’t make empty promises or you may find yourself learning a hard lesson.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 22
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Ringworld the television series, and Larry Niven’s tips on working with co-authors
Reading Time: 4 minutesLarry Niven shares the exciting news that his classic 1970 novel Ringworld is in development with Amazon and MGM.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 20, 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, dragons, witches, King Arthur’s knights, space battles, and a lonely rutabaga.
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5 Shocking Facts from Memory: The Origins of Alien
Reading Time: 3 minutesGrays. Blobs. Symbiotes. When it comes to aliens, I love ‘em all. I’m especially fond of the acid-
dripping, face-hugging, chest-bursting aliens that Sigourney Weaver fights in Ridley Scott’s film
series.
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In the Shadow of the Stars
Reading Time: 21 minutesWhen exploring abandoned wrecks within the accretion disk of a black hole Rhea, a inexperienced girl living on the salvage ship Thanaku, discovers the impossible: the body of a female human, dormant within a 100-year old container. Nobody on the ships believes it should be revived but Rhea can’t help feeling kinship with this semi-mythical creature.
Decision Tree
Reading Time: 4 minutesTrapped in a life pod attached to a dying spacecraft, an aging, battle-weary engineer has less than three minutes to live and an impossible choice to make. However, thanks to two computer programmers—over 100 years in the past—he’s not alone.
Leo
Reading Time: 36 minutesMeet Leo. Experiment, child, or monster? What makes him beautiful is that he is not human. He’s better.
A Rational House
Reading Time: 5 minutesA tightly wound architect is forced to extremes when ridding her house of a man who keeps growing from the walls.
Before
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat happens when today’s interstellar travelers meet those that arrived before them?
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 15
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 13, 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 has time travel, cozy magical mysteries, fallen angels, shapeshifters, and a dying civilization at the end of the universe.
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The Roommate
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe hole in my floor descended deep into the ground. Damp, mildewy air wafted up.
Viper Pit or Brad Pitt
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhat I have a hard time believing is that a Reptilian would be clueless enough to think a wife wants to be woken up in the middle of the night to have sex with her husband.
A Taste of Online Dating
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnline dating can be predatory, but who exactly is doing the hunting?
Moira and Ellie
Reading Time: 14 minutesJenna can’t wait to meet her imaginary friend–but her ghost turns out to have a closer connection to her family than she imagines.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 8
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 6, 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 space fleet science fiction, dystopian futures, urban fantasy, romance, and both historical and urban fantasy.
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Everything is a Rocket Ship
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s something I never told you, but I think you’re old enough now to know. I have a magic inside me. It lives between the lines in my fingertips and changes what I touch so I can fly away to a world far less frightening.
Five Things to do on the Way to the Bottom of the Sea
Reading Time: 3 minutesBenefits and pitfalls of undersea tourism exposed!
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The Magic Knapsack
Reading Time: 4 minutesA boy’s love for his mother helps him avoid a snare set by the Devil.
A Mother Knows
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter fertility reached an all time low, fertile women are inseminated in an effort to save humanity. While caring for her dying child, one mother takes measure to ensure she won’t have another baby.
This week’s top writing advice from around the web for May. 1
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 29, 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 fallen goddesses, gothic mystery, cozy mystery, alien romance, and retold fairytales.
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A Last Word
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn author must tell his three elderly leading characters that he is handing them over to someone else.
Google offers free AI-powered audiobook narration
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday, Google announced a free service to convert your EPUB file into an audiobook, using its AI voices.
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This week’s top writing advice from around the web for Apr. 24
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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