Reading Time: 8 minutes2020 has been a challenging year and nobody could be blamed if they were looking for a little reprieve from reality. One outlet that’s gained in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic is virtual reality or VR.
Reading Time: 15 minutesWhen this narrator finds his “special lady,” he is swept away with her beauty and perfection. However, she has a hidden secret and events become increasingly bizarre until he finds out the outlandish truth about her.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat makes a house a home? In the future, we might not have to be the ones who decide that.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDevelopers can now create apps controlled by a user’s thoughts. Yup, you can operate computers, lights, TVs, music, games with your mind — as long as you’ve got a little lighter-sized device strapped to your head.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA haunted musician is compelled to make music for creatures he finds in the shadows…
Reading Time: 5 minutesToto doesn’t understand why Dorothy ever wanted to leave Oz, so he finds a way back.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWho are they what do they want with us? We bring you the breaking news.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn a society where everybody is beautiful, physical imperfection becomes a career move.
Reading Time: 17 minutes“A unique, bizarre talent” was how critics described Timera Lovich and her wildy speculative poetry. But even she didn’t know the true genesis of her imaginary tales until she realized she wasn’t who or what she thought she was. Until it was too late.
Reading Time: 12 minutesQuinn Baxter escaped from a tyrannical government and finds that he is now an alien fugitive on the run from his planet’s security squad.
Reading Time: 8 minutesA hellbeast stuck in a crappy office job struggles to comply with his sensitivity training.
Reading Time: 21 minutesFor Althea Stagg, demigod detective, family history and mythology are often the same thing. So it comes as no surprise to her when a case leads her to a corn maze, and the monster that stalks its prey within.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA dentist with a dark family history receives a request to fit a patient with a very unique set of teeth.
Reading Time: 12 minutesA story about a young woman’s journey to find her true identity after her mother dies. It’s also a story about love, Mother Earth, and living without fear.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJenning’s debut novel stands out against her peers in a horrifying examination of family intersectionality, mental trauma, and compelling story-telling.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn William King’s tie-in novel, you can explore one of the World of Warcraft’s most cold-blooded villains, a night elf who goes by Illidan Stormrage.
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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
Reading Time: 8 minutesAn arid world is ruled by the five beast-gods, human-animal hybrids with mysterious powers, but also, increasingly, by the despotic Daonais and their loyal servants. Nade she has no memory of her past but is pursued through an inhospitable desert.
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
Reading Time: 15 minutesA woman with no memory wakes up in a city with no history. The city is alive. Among skyscrapers of flesh and bridges of bone, Kora hunts for her identity and for the forbidden food she craves: a predator and prey at once.
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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Reading Time: 11 minutesJimi awoke, moving only her eyes. It was something she learned from Lonny. He called it pulling together the threads of your life before you start moving around. It’s a focusing thing. She reviewed what she could do this day to make her dreams come true. Life is more manageable if you start each day
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat if “The Office” was staffed by vampires? Here’s the answer, folks.
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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.
Reading Time: 13 minutesTen-year-old Ross stopped sleeping when a rat-that-was-more-than-a-rat crept from his closet every night.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCome have a laugh with Dr. Shane.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesA time traveler decides to rid history of serial killers. Men like Manson & Bundy prove easy, but just how does one track down Jack the Ripper?
Reading Time: 2 minutesI slip into the confessional booth and sit down on the pale green cushion. It’s a peaceful place redolent of oiled wood, clean old ladies, and thousands of years of tradition. On my right, where the outline of a priest will appear, is a beautiful screen of elaborately carved wooden filigree. Before he arrives, I feel tranquility like in no other place on earth.
The priest appears. I can tell from his voice he is younger than I would like. As is traditional, I start the session.
Reading Time: 4 minutesOur master list of best resources for writers of fantasy, horror and sci-fi.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Dutch Goose is one of those cozy little bars in the neighborhood surrounding MIT. It’s a place where you can pick up a sandwich on the way home from campus or have a few beers while doing homework. Couples drop by to have a quick drink before their special event. It’s the kind of
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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Reading Time: 3 minutes If you live for reliable magic systems that still feel otherworldly and strange, then the Dreamblood duology is for you.
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.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Garden of Eden,” the first in a series of three live VR art explorations, concerts, and shows organized by HBO, kicks off today at 10 p.m. Eastern time on VRChat, a social VR platform.
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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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Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Oumuamua, a weird interstellar object that was discovered passing through our solar system in 2017, might be alien after all.
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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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe “Umbrella Academy” series is worth your while if you love wacky, unique, funny stories that stretch the boundaries of genre and convention.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat if one day we could cheat death? What if we could live longer – possibly forever? And if we could, would we want to?
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Reading Time: 6 minutesA new paradox in quantum mechanics – one of our two most fundamental scientific theories – throws doubt on some common-sense ideas about physical reality.
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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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Reading Time: 6 minutesTesla was a real-life Prometheus: the mythical Greek titan who raided heaven to bring fire to mankind, yet in punishment was chained to a rock where each day an eagle ate his liver.
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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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlash fiction submission deadline is November 1.
Reading Time: 11 minutesAs Dune continues to work its way back into the social consciousness, I believe it is worth revisiting some of the novel’s core themes, and considering them in the light of 2020.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNeville Schroeder was a fireplug. He stood barely five feet tall, red, shabby, and pedestrian. Professor Connelly towered over him, a giant oak tree of a man with a silk paneled vest, tweed coat and tie, expensive glasses, and a neatly trimmed beard.
Reading Time: 23 minutesWe were to start at noon. The impatient crowd which pressed around the enclosed space, filling the enclosed square, overflowing into the contiguous streets, and covering the houses from the ground-floor to the slated gables, presented a striking scene.
Reading Time: 26 minutesThe Moreot, Katusthius Ziani, travelled wearily, and in fear of its robber-inhabitants, through the pashalik of Yannina; yet he had no cause for dread.
