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• Is there such a thing as complete enlightenment? Last Days meets “The Court Magician” by Sarah Pinsker.

  By ericmbosarge on August 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  (spoilers ahead)  This week my journey to read all the award-nominated and award winning short fiction from the last decade led me to Sarah Pinsker’s “The Court Magician”, which originally appeared in Lightspeed and was nominated for a Nebula. Narrated… Read More ›

• A stilted and broken future full of stilted and broken people: UPLOAD on Amazon Prime

  By editorialmonster on August 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I have spent too much of my reading energy, of late, hunched over edits on a forthcoming title. When my eyes hurt, and my kid is asleep, and the house is mostly quiet, I may stop and try to recharge… Read More ›

• Max Brooks’ Devolution Strikes a Balance Between Nature’s Revenge and a Sinking Hope

  By ericmbosarge on August 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In the fifties, William Levitt changed the world. Realizing that the surging population wanted a private backyard with a white picket fence, he used quick manufacturing techniques to deliver millions of homes for cheap. In Max Brooks’ Devolution, a billionaire… Read More ›

• Star Trek: Discovery’s tech makes no sense, and is jarring in the world of Trek.

  By editorialmonster on August 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Award Nominees Reread: Would “A Year and a Day in Old Theradane” by Scott Lynch make a Good Movie?

  By ericmbosarge on August 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Being late to a party doesn’t mean the party isn’t still fun. I stumbled onto Scott Lynch’s novelette while perusing the last decade of Locus and Hugo nominees (2015), and I pounded the table after reading it. This should be considered a modern classic! It’s one of the finest examples of the fantasy novelette genre, and will stay with readers for a long time. Lynch’s gorgeous writing, which created a cinematic experience for me as the reader, got me wondering how someone from Hollywood might evaluate it.

• The Homemade Dystopia

  By ericmbosarge on August 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The other day I camped with my son at a remote (to me) State Park in the Maine Highlands, and for several hours in the afternoon, it rained. We read inside our tent while peals of lightning were followed by… Read More ›

• Paul Jessup’s July Short Story Roundup!

  By editorialmonster on July 31, 2020 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• “Am I Sick, or a Saint?” UNDONE refuses to answer its own questions

  By editorialmonster on July 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• BOOK GIVEAWAY!

  By editorialmonster on July 24, 2020 • ( 8 )

  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 ›

• The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark

  By editorialmonster on July 22, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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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