Author Archives
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Christmas Specials for Fans of the Fantastic
By definition, the very notion of Santa Claus riding down from the toy workshop hidden in the frosty wasteland of the North Pole to deliver toys to all the good boys and girls of the world in a single nocturne… Read More ›
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Planetfall by Emma Newman is Enjoyable Enough, but Not For Everyone
To me, one of the great narrative failures is when important information is kept from the audience simply because the author wants to maintain the secret. The narrator knows. They share winks and nods with other characters in the scene…. Read More ›
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Three Winter Books for the Cold and the Dark
The cold snap that passed through much of the United States made one thing very clear: Winter is Coming. It’s already snowed a few times for my family in the northern states, and even down in south Texas, where I… Read More ›
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All Souls, All Warnings – a Review of THREE MESSAGES AND A WARNING edited by Eduardo Jimenez Mayo, Chris Brown, and Bruce Sterling
A member of the family passed away on All Souls, November 1. As a resident of San Antonio, TX, I am very familiar with the importance of this day. It is the day when spirits return to visit their living… Read More ›
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Hungry Caterpillars and Hemingway and Horses and Men
Like many parents of small children, I have had cause to read the book THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR probably more times than I care to count. In this book, which is not very long, really, but extremely well illustrated, a… Read More ›
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Remembering the Classics: BURNING CHROME by William Gibson
When I spent a couple months in Vancouver one summer, while writing and dogsitting and housesitting for a relative that was vacationing in Italy in this beautiful house in Vancouver, I walked around the city constantly wondering if I might… Read More ›
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We Are Fully Funded! Thank you for all your help and support!
Ladies and gentlemen, our anthology project has fully funded! Thank you to everyone for your support! We can’t wait to bring these stories to you, and get our little publishing operation off the ground! There is no reason to stop… Read More ›
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Reviews Revisited: Patrice Sarath!
We are turning in to the home stretch, here, and revisiting posts about our authors in case you missed them the first time. We have just a few hundred dollars left to raise, and only seven days to raise it!… Read More ›
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Reviews Revisited: Karen Bovenmyer’s The Dissolution of Forever
With just about a week left to go, we are at 85% of our goal! We’re so excited to see our project come this close, and with your help we can rise above the target, and raise even more than… Read More ›
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Reviews Revisited: Why We Love the Work of Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
We are so excited to be so close to our goal, with just 815 dollars left! We are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support from our community, and we hope you can help us push all the way up and… Read More ›