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Book Review: The End of the World As We Know It

The current media landscape is littered with nostalgia grabs like so many abandoned cars rotting on the road from Maine to Boulder. We’ve seen reboots of the movies we loved as children as well as do-we-really-need-this sequels that serve us the familiar, the comfortable, and the already-experienced. In the complicated …

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Book Review: The Kiss Catastrophe

It’s always nice to read science fiction with believable science. Getting through a whole book without wincing while you try to contort your brain around a ridiculous scientific assertion is refreshing. So, when I learned that Colorado author Raima Larter has a multi-decades-long background in chemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, statistical mechanics …

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Book Review: The Ministry of Time

Few sci fi books have been as popular lately as Kaliane Bradley’s novel, The Ministry of Time. It’s a beautiful work, but as I’m about to show, it has its flaws. And no, they are not small ones. I’m aware of a certain controversy surrounding this book. When the BBC …

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Book Series Review: Circus of Unusual Creatures

Tammie Painter is the author of The Circus of Unusual Creatures series I have recently been binge reading. Not such a binge since there are only four books in the series so far. The narrator of the stories is Duncan, aka Brutus Fangwrath, Deadliest Dragon in the West. He loves …

Foundation Book vs AppleTV Production

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is a seminal work of science fiction, prominently topping many lists of ground-breaking and genre-defining works. The original story consisted of three related books: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. Each represents a step for humanity in the evolving political progression from the current First …

Babel–Meaning or Madness?

Into the plethora of genres and sub-genres in today’s fiction rockets BABEL, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, by R. F Kuang. The title says it all. History, deeply interwoven in a fantastic view of what might have existed, the long (500 pages …

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Book Review: Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1958)

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, by Eleanor Cameron, has been in print since the 1950s. It features the adventures of Chuck and David, two boys who travel to the alien planet Basidium in their homemade spaceship. This classic, primarily for children, is fun for adults, too, and you’ll …

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Books Every Writer Should Have

A fantastic source of knowledge and inspiration for writers is other writers. Those who have been through it before can share their knowledge and experience with those who are just starting out or new to a certain area. From planning, writing, and editing to querying, publishing, and marketing—and everything in …