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Review: Firebird by Jack McDevitt
Title: Firebird, an Alex Benedict Novel Author: Jack McDevitt Publisher: Ace Hardware Cover Blurb: Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Science Fiction
Tagged Alex Benedict, Chase Kolpath, Firebird, Jack McDevitt
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Growing Up YA Lit-Style: A Personal Essay
Ilsa J. Bick, MD, a child psychologist and YA author, recently published an article on the Hunger Mountain site in which she responds to a pair of essays by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Children’s Reviewer for the Wall Street Journal, who … Continue reading
The Many Mysteries of Charles Tan: An Interview
Charles Tan is the blogger behind one of speculative fiction’s top blogs, Bibliophile Stalker. While much of the content on his site pertains to Philippine speculative fiction, Tan has his finger on the pulse of the SF/F industry. Not only … Continue reading
Exploring the eFrontier: A Strangeways Interview with James Patrick Kelly
People who know James Patrick Kelly know he’s always up to something clever and new – a sign that we’re talking about a creative science fiction writer, if ever there was one! A couple of years ago, Kelly took the … Continue reading
NPR’s New Poll: “Best Science Fiction, Fantasy Books? You Tell Us”
Okay, folks, this is it! Genre fiction, specifically science fiction and fantasy, has gone to some pretty terrific places before, but when it goes to NPR…. Well, we all should hitch a ride to see what’s going on. What you’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Literature, Fantasy, Make a Difference, Science Fiction, Signal Boost
Tagged arts, Earthsea, Fantasy, fiction, Literature, NPR, Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Vote
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Top Fantasy Destinations for the Adventurous Traveler
By Hannah Strom-Martin and Erin Underwood Are you an adventurous traveler, willing to go the extra mile for excitement? Would you rather go to End World than Disneyworld? Does the thought of the Eiffel Tower bore, but the image of … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Television, Uncategorized, Young Adult Literature
Tagged A Song of Ice and Fire, Acacia, Adventure, Alice in Wonderland, Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Clockwork Angel, crusade, Dark Tower, Dresden Files, Fantasy, London, Lord or the Rings, Lost, Memory Sorrow Thorn, Middle-earth, Mount Doom, Pacific Ocean, Recreation, Song of Fire and Ic, Tourism, Travel, Twilight, Westeros, Wheel of Time, White Tree of Gondor, Wizard for Hire, Wizard of Oz
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2011 Publishers Round Table
Welcome to 2011, a new year in publishing for fantasy and science fiction! The big questions for 2011 are: How did 2010 go? and What should we look for in 2011? The 2011 Publishers Round Table explores these questions are … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Interviews, Marketing, Science Fiction, Uncategorized, Young Adult Literature
Tagged Author, Betsy Mitchell, China Miéville, Del Rey Spectra, E-book, Gavin Grant, Gordon Van Gelder, IPad, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Michael Alexander, Peter V. Brett, Publishing, Small Beer Press, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Website, Writer, Young-adult fiction
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Poem: Christmas Morning, 2025 by James Patrick Kelly
And now for something you’re really going to like – a Christmas poem by James Patrick Kelly. Christmas Morning, 2025 by James Patrick Kelly Folly Outside a lead sky spits ice and cold rain Last night I drank too much … Continue reading
Short Story: “Fruitcake Theory” by James Patrick Kelly
James Patrick Kelly has generously agreed to share “Fruitcake Theory,” a special holiday story with a science fiction twist that was originally published in Asimov’s (December 1998). Happy holidays from Jim Kelly and Underwords. ~ “We need you, Jim,” said … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Science Fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, Eiffel Tower, Fruitcake, Holidays, James Patrick Kelly, Jim Kelly, Jingle Bells, Sheila Williams
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This Year Christmas Won’t Be Late – Doctor Who is Coming
The Doctor is in. For years and years, U.S. fans of Doctor Who had to scavenge the net looking for unauthorized access to the Christmas specials. The BBC seems to have come to the conclussion that if you can’t beat … Continue reading
