Space operations workshop is open to the public
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile it is marketed to “Space Operations Professionals,” it is also a cool opportunity to get some insight into how today’s space industry works.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 2, 2021
Reading Time: 12 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two magic schools, dragons, space battles, and some very proper Victorian zombies.
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What is Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited and how is it different from Prime Reading?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are a lot of all-you-can-read and free e-book options out there. Learn all about Kindle Unlimited, Prime Reading, OverDrive and Libby, Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Scribd, 24Symbols, and Bookmate. There’s even a service that will send print books to you by mail, BookLender.
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Jingle-jangle
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnd then I was fading, ears ringing and body broken by shrapnel that jingle-jangled in my pocket, before I failed Christiane.
Dead People’s Things for Sale
Reading Time: 12 minutesThe clock on Abigail’s nightstand read 11:00. Death would be here within the hour.
Damon Knight’s The Worshippers Shows Right From Wrong
Reading Time: 32 minutesDamon Knight gives us a roller-coaster ride through one person’s journey of both literal and metaphorical self discovery.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 26, 2021
Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten books on Amazon’s fantasy and sci-fi list of free books, and today’s list includes a paranormal investigator, a succubus, and a magic-wielding orphan in a dystopian future.
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Pohl’s The Hated Explores Psychosis of Space Travel
Reading Time: 15 minutesWhat mental stress is waiting for our astronauts on extended journeys, and what treatment can we possibly offer them? Frederick Pohl gives us one fascinating option.
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Ahsoka Tano from E.K. Johnston’s, “Star Wars: Ahsoka,” Simply Rocks
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe character has gone from initially dividing fans to becoming one of the franchise’s most beloved characters, going on to play a major role in “Star Wars: Rebels,” and to be portrayed by actor Rosario Dawson in a recent episode of “The Mandalorian.”
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 19, 2021
Reading Time: 9 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten books on Amazon’s fantasy and sci-fi list of free books, so you don’t have to.
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Melody
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor a split second, I couldn’t tell if it was a person pounding at the door or the wind, but then I heard a young voice scream, “HELP! HELP ME!”
Kittens need saving, too: How Blake Snyder’s beats can work for short stories
Reading Time: 3 minutesCan the Save the Cat method release the hidden kitten in a crouching cat? That is, is the method applicable to shorter works?
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Silverberg’s Happy Unfortunate Tackles Racism in 1957
Reading Time: 25 minutesIn this story, Silverberg brings us a brief glimpse into a deeply divided society, divided not just by differing values and ideas but by their very own physical bodies.
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Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 12, 2021
Reading Time: 9 minutesDid you know that Amazon has a list of the top-selling and free sci-fi and fantasy books? Here are the top ten — and my takes on each of them.
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Saving Grace
Reading Time: 11 minutesBlood pooled from the inside arch of her right foot, leaving a watery trail of droplets behind her.
Smart AR glasses will change how we shop, work, and learn
Reading Time: 5 minutesSmartphones touch nearly every facet of our lives. The transformative effect of smart glasses can be equally dramatic, experts say.
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Roll for Narrative: An Interview with Spencer Campbell, Making Sci-Fi Playable on Your Table
Reading Time: 11 minutesI sat down digitally with Spencer Campbell of Gila RPGs to talk about his new tabletop roleplaying game FRAME, currently gearing up for a Kickstarter campaign later this month. I wanted to learn where the game’s concept came from and how Spencer drew upon the sci fi genre to build a speculative fiction narrative within the medium of a roleplaying game.
Vonnegut’s 2BR02B: Soft, what utopia through yonder window breaks?
Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat would you do if you could choose a future for humanity? Would you choose one of abject squalor, or would you make some small sacrifice for the betterment of future generations?
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A Winter’s Morning
Reading Time: 19 minutesThe monster began to come towards him, its massive arms at its sides, and its trunk-like feet sliding along the ground.
Buehler’s ‘The Forest Bride’ will satisfy your craving for fantasy romance
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The Forest Bride: A Fairy Tale with Benefits” by Jane Buehler is a cozy, sexy, fantasy romance that follows Princess Rose through a series of challenging, sometimes terrifying, events that ultimately lead her on a journey of love and self-discovery.
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The True Story of Bloody Bones
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn her bed was found a messy pile of blood-stained bones and skull and jaw fragments.
Anderson’s The Man Who Came Early Shows Aliens Among Us
Reading Time: 35 minutesPeople struggle to connect. These struggles resonate today more than ever. In modern media, we find ourselves confronted with viewpoints and even ways of life that we find alien.
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Flash fiction submissions due April 1
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe spring flash fiction submission cycle opens today. Stories can be submitted anytime from now until April 1, 2021.
Unknown Empire
Reading Time: 11 minutesHe threw back the covers to look to see what the problem was into his lower limbs which were covered with fire ants!
Cancer survivor heading to space as part of all-civilian crew
Reading Time: 3 minutesHayley Arceneaux will become the first astronaut with a prosthetic limb when she goes into space later this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission.
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The Thing in the Woods
Reading Time: 14 minutesThe cat’s mouth cranked wide open just as the rock had, the top of her head falling backward until she stared upside down at us with glassy eyes.
The Bone Ships wins 2020 British Fantasy Award
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe British Fantasy Society announced the winners of the 2020 British Fantasy Awards yesterday, and RJ Barker’s The Bone Ships was selected as the best fantasy novel of the year.
The Lady Who Would Not Die
Reading Time: 9 minutesShe treads softly on the blood-soaked ground, disturbing the crows that came to feast.
New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn Feb. 11, 2021, the sixth International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new Forever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century.
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Where One Vulnerability Researcher Sees AI in 2030
Reading Time: 4 minutesLooking at least one decade into the future, I believe we will see significant advancements in three areas by 2030 as a result of AI — personal assistance devices, genomics, and space exploration.
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Asimov’s Youth! Shows Us the True Aliens
Reading Time: 35 minutesThe conflict between generations, stability and energy, has special in the current events of our time.
Seen
Reading Time: 23 minutesWhen I opened my eyes a little wider and tilted my head just so—to see, really see—I noticed the fairies dancing between the floorboards of my bedroom.
The first Mars photos from Perseverance are here
Reading Time: 3 minutesNASA has been releasing photos as they arrive from Mars and they are awesome.
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Evacuation: Earth
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvacuating Earth was arguably the most difficult thing ever undertaken by humankind.
Perseverance lands tomorrow; lead scientist explains tech and goals
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at the red planet, and hopefully will place the Perseverance Rover on the surface.
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James Blish’s ‘One-Shot’ explores limits of technology
Reading Time: 17 minutesInstitutions fail us. Destruction awaits us around every corner. These fears are as true today as in the 1950s, when James Blish wrote his short story “One-Shot.”
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Dead Men Walking
Reading Time: 16 minutesMy helmet melted away, revealing what should have been a skull, but instead showcased thousands of minuscule cables, flicking lights and tiny gears, latched to my brain and wiring me into the armor’s motor functions. It had become a part of my body.
Aliens in Lagos: sci-fi novel Lagoon offers a bold new future
Reading Time: 4 minutesLagoon, through its shapeshifting alien protagonist, challenges long-held ideas of how gender and sexual identities are considered in Africa.
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Dr. Garbanzo Writes the First Draft
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere was a quick, frantic splashing, an ascent of bubbles, and then nothing.
Decoy
Reading Time: 4 minutesTesca watched as Braygin was enveloped in a blue orb, then winked out of existence along with a little section of tunnel floor he’d been standing on.
Crow Barn
Reading Time: 11 minutesCalypso had heard the stories how Jackson Hammond hanged himself from the rafters inside the barn, his eyes pecked by crows. A year after, his wife hanged herself.
How Old is ‘Warp Drive?’ Where was ‘Zap Gun’ First Used?
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you “grok” jargon? Does your “filk” contain references to “BEM”s or “BDO”s? And do the goings-on in Washington make you want to go into “cryostasis” in your “hobbit-hole”?
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Is the Double-Consciousness of ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison Still Relevant Today?
Reading Time: 6 minutesI learned by listening. Dad and his friends did not know it then, but they were describing their experiences with double-consciousness, living as a Black man in a white-dominated society.
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Finding Georgia
Reading Time: 10 minutesIt’s Georgia I see, naked in that corner, hands shackled high, a coyote half inside her, squirming at the jagged hole in her gut.
New CRISPR technology could revolutionize gene therapy
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe head of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins had joined forces with Harvard University professor David Liu and others to tackle progeria, a genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly.
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