Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes time travel, werewolves, fairies, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and a retelling of the Garden of Eden.
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Reading Time: 12 minutesToday’s modern, professionally-designed author websites have three things in common: Wordpress, responsive design, and panel styling.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThe rap song “Whitey on the Moon” has new relevance with the recent space trips of billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association’s poetry contest’s deadline is August 31, 2021.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesI’ve read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien invasion, Captain Hook, space smugglers, sexy shape-shifters, sexy aliens, and a political thriller involving a psychic detective.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat do you do if you send out your work for critiques and the overwhelming response is negative?
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the most interesting tools for thinking about future defense technology isn’t big data forecasting and the use of synthetic training environments, but narrative and imagination. And we get this from science fiction.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe finalists for the 2021 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, including Lifetime Achievement recipients Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 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 a post-apocalyptic western, a sexy shape shifter, a sexy alien, and four epic fantasies. Oh, and a demonic insurance agency.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe number of planets in the universe is truly astronomical — some are gas giants, like Jupiter in our solar system. Others may be water worlds or ice planets. And some are Earth-like.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesNew knowledge of quantum fractals could provide the foundations for scientists to experimentally test the theory of quantum consciousness.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDeep point of view is a technique that modern writers use to make stories feel more compelling and immediate for the reader. You can use this technique in both first person and third person narration.
Reading Time: 15 minutesHow I, a tech and cybersecurity journalist, backup all my computer systems.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 18 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 faeries, aliens, zombies, demigods, and an EMP apocalypse.
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Reading Time: 6 minutesNASA recently had to cancel a long-planned spacesuit because of the lack of a spacesuit in the right size. NASA, you broke our hearts.
Reading Time: 3 minutesE. M. Foner tries out Amazon’s Kindle Vella, a new publishing option for episodic fiction, and tells us what he thinks about the platform.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis movie is a new psychological thriller that deals with dreams. For horror and sci-fi fans, it has a secret to startle you with.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesTo take on some of the biggest challenges of the next generation of astronomy, astronomers are turning to AI)to build new tools to rapidly search for the next big breakthroughs.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 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 the start of a 100-book-plus space opera series, an EMP survival book, a fairytale retold, and a succubus with an insatiable appetite for sex.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIn Winter Tide and its sequel Deep Roots, Emrys pays homage to the drama and lyrical beauty of Lovecraft’s writing, staying scrupulously true to the mythos while turning its fear of the unknown inside-out.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesNaomi Novik’s A Deadly Education could be seen as Harry Potter meets Hunger Games, or “Hungry Potter” if you will.
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Reading Time: 15 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 a leather-wearing armed bounty hunter, vampires, werewolves, witches, mages, and elves. Oh, and an alien planet with telepathic beings.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesWhen you want to improve something, you have to measure it. Here is a list of the top ways to measure your daily writing progress.
Reading Time: 18 minutesWe’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes Vampires, witches, sexy dragons, sexy shape shifters, more sexy dragons, and sexy aliens.
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Reading Time: 14 minutesWe’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, mercenaries, postapocalyptic cowboys, witches, vampires, and dinosaurs.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesDenis Villeneuve’s adaption of Dune scheduled to be released this fall in theaters and on HBO Max, but the author’s life is a tale in and of itself.
Reading Time: 16 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 witches, halflings, grim reapers, and lots of aliens.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Live Remote VEX Robotics World Championship had broken the Guinness World Record as the largest online robot championship.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new book by a features erotic stories across a number of genres, including sci-fi, cyberpunk, and fantasy.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesLast Saturday, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced the winners of the 56th Nebula Awards.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNavyCon, the premier science fiction and national security conference, returns for its fourth edition inviting speakers from a variety of backgrounds, including all five branches of the service, as well as civilian academia and science fiction fandom, to present on topics within the theme of national security in transition.
Reading Time: 4 minutesTwo Venus missions will be launched some time between 2028 and 2030, instead of missions to the moons of Jupiter and Neptune. What are we missing out on as a result?
Reading Time: 13 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 supersoldiers, druids, witches, vampires, sorcerers, mermaids, and an invisible man.
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Reading Time: 17 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 alien worlds, shape shifters, witches, and lots and lots of romance.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes“The Ballad of Black Tom” holds all the cosmic horror of the Lovecraft mythos, and places it deftly amid the very real horrors of life for a young black man in a racist society.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOn May 9, Amazon pulled the Star Wars novel “Heart of the Jedi,” from sale on its online retailer. While there is no official statement from Amazon or Lucasfilm as to the matter, one can hypothesize that Disney took action against the selling of an unauthorized Star Wars book.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo you want Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand? Thanks to 3D printing technology, soon you will be able to have it.
Reading Time: 17 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 an alien invasion, post-apocalyptic survival, a werewolf romance, and a paranormal cozy mystery.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesTranshumanists predict that science will enable us to free our minds from bodily constraints. But these ideas actually date back to the 18th century.
Reading Time: 37 minutesHow to use free and low-cost AI tools to create cool images for websites and social media.
Reading Time: 16 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 a gay romance between a vampire and a were-beaver, lots and lots of dragons, and three magical cozy mysteries.
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Reading Time: 26 minutesI try out the top 15 free online mind mapping apps.
Reading Time: 14 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 a shape-shifting dragon, zombies, elves, and vampire assassins.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesMore Black writers and artists are turning to science fiction — and an artistic movement known as Afrofuturism — to tackle issues around race and inequality and give fans an escape from the harsh realities on Earth.
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Reading Time: 8 minutesHow the use the free Miro app to outline your story or novel.
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe results of MetaStellar’s first submission cycle of 2021 are in, and we at MetaStellar are thrilled to announce the success of our second original fiction submission cycle.
