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You Have To Read This!

As briefly mentioned in the comments to David’s Labor Day post, I used to be shy. Extraordinarily so. I knew all the popular kids in high school, but I wasn’t invited to their parties and I didn’t get asked out much. During my junior year, I worked in the library during senior [...]

Favorites: Some Labor Day Fun

With this being Labor Day Weekend, and with Monday being a national holiday, which typically means little traffic at the site, I thought I would post something a little lighter than usual.  If you happen across the post and feel like playing along, great.  If not, no problem.

Throughout this summer, which unofficially ends this weekend, [...]

Special Guest: Jessica Wade!

Greetings, dear readers!

I’m Jessica Wade, and I’m an editor at Ace and Roc, the science fiction and fantasy imprints of Penguin. The lovely Faith (AKA Gwen) Hunter asked me to write a guest post for you all, and in this case I’m going to follow the age-old dictate that says ‘write what you know’ [...]

Special Guest: P J Haarsma!

A while back, my 8th grade boys went absolutely mad for a new science fiction series called The Softwire, by PJ Haarsma. No matter how many copies we bought, they always stayed checked out, with a long hold list. Fast forward a few months to DragonCon, where I happened to run into that [...]

How far is that again?

One of our faithful readers, Daniel Davis, recently asked a very good question:

“I’m just wondering how others deal with time and distance in their stories. By that I mean, do you change the names of your time and distance from Earth standard (seconds, minutes, hours, feet, miles, etc) to something else, keep it the same, [...]

Little lost books

SF Signal (a very cool blog for those who want to keep a finger on the SF/F media pulse) posted a list of 10 Obscure But Superb SF Novels. I’ve read Wasp, but none of the others.

So many books fall between the cracks – good books, books that seem like secret treasures to those [...]