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Star Trek: Discovery’s tech makes no sense, and is jarring in the world of Trek.
I don’t want to sit here and play arm-chair quarterback with the extreme challenge of constructing a useful and entertaining multi-part narrative set in the well-known and well-traveled Star Trek universe that would somehow manage to pay homage to the… Read More ›
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Paul Jessup’s July Short Story Roundup!
Oh boy where did the month ago? Is it time for another monthly short story roundup? Well, I guess it is. This month has a been a strange month, for certain, but then again all months have been strange months… Read More ›
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“Am I Sick, or a Saint?” UNDONE refuses to answer its own questions
The beautifully-rendered vision of San Antonio, animated by UNDONE, an Amazon Prime original, is a lush and sweeping and sublime thing, and revels in a kind of ambiguity that is upended by the very work it does creating its own… Read More ›
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BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Good morning, internet! Right now, today, I will be giving away four copies of WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES!Why do you need this anthology in your life? “The Way of the Laser is a delightful compilation of SF… Read More ›
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The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
Of the things that I celebrate about our future with lots of eBooks is the explosion of eBooks at a wide variety of lengths. Some are very long. I was able to purchase and read the entire Song of Ice… Read More ›
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Space Force is Still Looking for Space Legs
Certain brands of media have not aged well in the era of redcaps and coronavirus and the fracturing of reality, itself, around political ideas. “Parks and Recreation” was a charming little show, that began a bit stumbled and disoriented, but… Read More ›
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On M. John Harrison’s Sunken Lands
I always struggle to think about what to say about books that are The… Books… Of… The… Season! This is no exception. It’s a brilliant and unsettling thing, like holding a book that slowly turns into a silvery fish in… Read More ›
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Paul Jessup’s June Short Story Roundup
Here we go, here we go, a read and appreciated list for June 2020. Hold on, you might say, isn’t this a Locus style short story roundup? Are you going to go through a long list of everything published in… Read More ›
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LAUNCH DAY: WAY OF THE LASER FUTURE CRIME STORIES IS HERE!
With full hearts and hopeful spirits, Eric and I are pleased to see the final version of WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES finally and completely out into the world. We began as a Kickstarter, and turned into something… Read More ›
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British Propaganda Disguised as Historical Fiction: NETFLIX’S THE LAST KINGDOM
Late into the night, sipping strong alcohol, and avoiding the bad news and adult responsibilities, I sat through the male power Fantasy soap opera, on Netflix, “The Last Kingdom”, and found it fine enough while not thinking too hard. As… Read More ›