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• And they say I'm an attention-seeker.

  
  Sore Eyes — Authority: 113
  My Day by Jonesy: A Cats Eye View of Alien … Woken by the ship landing somewhere. Not Earth though, so go back to sleep. Woken again by a lot of shouting and neurotic activity coming from somewhere on the far side of the vessel. Honestly, cant these people show a hardworking feline any respect? But hey, since ...
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• Book Review: Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 506
  Title: Article 5 Author: Kristen Simmons Genre: Dystopian, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Tor Teen Publication Date: January 2012 Hardcover: 384 pages New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral ...
  1 week ago

• Politics in Speculative Fiction

  
  NealJansons.com - The Official Website of Author and Poet Neal Jansons — Authority: 92
  Over at SF Signal , a blog I think every fan of speculative fiction should read, they have an interesting round table on politics in science fiction . The question is: Q: How should SF writers respond to the politics of their time, if at all? The various authors responded in various ways, as one would expect. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tara Maya: Sacrifice

  
  Mervi's Book reviews — Authority: 106
  The third book in the fantasy series Unfinished Song which is set in a fantastical Stone Age. Publication year: 2011 Format: ebook, pdf Page count: 173 Publisher: Misque Press The book starts soon after the ending of the previous book, Taboo. The peace party is returning back to the Yellow Bear tribe, defeated. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Review: Deep Sky by Patrick Lee

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 506
  Title: Deep Sky Author: Patrick Lee Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: January 2012 Paperback: 384 pages The anomaly called the Breach is the government’s most carefully guarded secret. But there is another secret even less known . . . and far more ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Aid for Fairies

  
  Novelspot - If books were people, they'd mingle at Novelspot. — Authority: 116
  
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• Did Not Finish: Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 506
  Title: Dearly, Departed Author: Lia Habel Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic, Steampunk, Alternate-Victorian, Speculative Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Zombies (THIS, this genre description! THIS is a large reason why the book was DNF’d) Publisher: Del Rey Publication Date: October 2011 Paperback: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Witch’s Brew by Heidi R. Kling

  
  Bookalicio.us - reviews, author interviews and book news — Authority: 408
  The first book in the new THE SPELLSPINNERS OF MELAS COUNTY series about a modern-day witch who must betray everything she knows to save her magic and her forbidden love. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about one of my favorite contemporary authors going speculative. I also wasn’t sure how I would feel about a ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Overlooked: Sleep Dealer (2009)

  
  Movie Mobsters — Authority: 100
  Mobster’s Rating: Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer is one of the most grounded science fiction films of recent memory. The first time director has referred to his work as  ”science fiction with many anchors in today’s reality.” He isn’t joking. In the future according to Sleep Dealer, Mexico is walled off, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Science Fiction Pioneer Homer Eon Flint Gets Second Chance at Publishing Career

  
  All articles at Blogcritics — Authority: 697
  Murdered 1920s author Homer Eon Flint is publishing again -- thanks to an e-publisher and his determined granddaughter.
  2 weeks ago

• Can Someone Give Me a Straight Answer About Christian Speculative Fiction?!

  
  deCOMPOSE — Authority: 453
  Apparently not. On the one hand are the agents and editors who flatly say that Speculative Fiction DOES NOT SELL in the CBA. It’s an experiment that is over , they opine. The demand just isn’t there . Blah. Blah. Blah. And then this from Allen Arnold,  Senior Vice-President and Fiction Publisher at Thomas ...
  3 weeks ago

• Halo: Primordium, a New SF Novel

  
  world of fiction — Authority: 107
  The Forerunner Saga, Book 2 by Greg Bear Greg Bear is one of my favorite contemporary SF authors. While I’m a fan, I’m a picky fan. Here’s one I’ll be buying. –D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books AVAILABLE … Continue reading →
  3 weeks ago

• Among Others by Jo Walton – Book Review

  
  Devourer of Books — Authority: 410
  Among Others by Jo Walton Published by Tor Books, an imprint of MacMillan Once upon a time, Morwenna – known as Mori – did magic. She and her twin sister Mor played with fairies and closed down factories by simply each throwing a flower into a pond. Now Mori alone is in England with her all-but-unknown ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book Review: Ghost Country by Patrick Lee

  
  The Book Smugglers — Authority: 506
  Title: Ghost Country Author: Patrick Lee Genre: Speculative Fiction, Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: January 2011 Paperback: 352 pages For decades, inexplicable technology has passed into our world through the top secret anomaly called the Breach. The latest device can punch a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prehistoric Fiction with Sandra Saidak

  
  Tracy S. Morris — Authority: 100
  When you think of speculative fiction, you might think of ray guns and space ships, or swords and pirate ships. But when Sandra Saidak writes speculative fiction, she reaches further into the past. Her first novel,“Daughter of the Goddess Lands”, which was published in 2011, is an epic set in the late Neolithic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why a Judeo-Christian Worldview Is Essential to Good Fiction

  
  deCOMPOSE — Authority: 453
  You can’t have bad guys without real evil . You also can’t have compelling drama without real stakes . And a biblical worldview is the only worldview that sustains the philosophical framework necessary for eternal stakes and ultimate moral consequences. Which is why most authors — even non-religious ones ...
  3 weeks ago

• Podcast: The Guardian Talks to Lauren Beukes About the Future of Speculative Fiction in SA

  
  BOOK SA - Magazine — Authority: 117
  The Guardian has recognised Lauren Beukes as one of the science fiction authors to look out for in 2012, considering her Arthur C Clarke Award win in 2011 and Mulholland Books’ eager acquisition of the rights for her forthcoming novel, The Shining Girls . They spoke to Beukes about the future of ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness – Book Review

  
  Devourer of Books — Authority: 410
  A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Published by Penguin (Non-Classics) Paperback, an imprint of Penguin Diana Bishop comes from a family of witches with illustrious lineages, but there are few things she detests more than using magic. Sure, when the washer is threatening to flood the house she might ...
  4 weeks ago

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