Having heard plenty of jazz groups that consist of a piano player, a bassist, and a drummer, both with and without some combination of a saxophonist and / a trumpet player, I constantly find myself drawn to jazz that ...CONTINUE
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As Lord Acton so smartly said, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But what if that power is super? It’s what’s explored in Bob Proehl’s new sci-fi novel The Somebody People (paperback, Kindle, audiobook ...CONTINUE
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It’s been nearly thirty years since writer Kathe Koja released her first strange and scary novel, The Cipher. But rather than buying it a pearl necklace, the good people at Meerkat Press are instead bestowing this story with ...CONTINUE
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In many noir science fiction stories, the “noir” part is largely limited to how the world is described. But in their noir sci-fi novel Second Chance Angel (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), co-authors Griffin Barber and Kacey ...CONTINUE
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We’ve all walked out of movies and imagined what our hero might do next. But Dan Hanks didn’t just do that after seeing Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull. He turned his idea into a reality — sort ...CONTINUE
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