As Douglas Adams so aptly put it, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Which means it may take a while for AAA to show up when your spaceship gets a flat ...CONTINUE
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They say that adversity makes strange bedfellows. Apparently killing your gods does as well. In Zoe Hana Mikuta cyberpunk / dustpunk sci-fi novel Gearbreakers (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), we’re not only presented with a world in ...CONTINUE
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In the late ’60s Eric Clapton fell hard for his friend George’s wife, Pattie…and his way of dealing with this unrequited love was to write the now classic album Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs. Not every musician ...CONTINUE
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It’s always fun to see how someone describes a story when they’re trying to be pithy. Take, for instance, how Solaris described John Appel’s sci-fi space opera thriller Assassin’s Orbit (paperback, Kindle, audiobook): “Golden Girls ...CONTINUE
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On the surface, Nicole Kornher-Stace’s new illustrated novel Jillian Vs. Parasite Planet (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) sounds like it’s a middle-grade sci-fi adventure story. But as she and illustrator Scott Brown explain in the following email ...CONTINUE
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If things continue the way they have been, we will one day be living in underwater homes. Which also means someone will be murdered in their underwater home. And when that happens, someone may say, “This reminds me of ...CONTINUE
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While we’ve all suffered the indignity of waking up in an alternate dimension with no idea how we got there, it’s still possible to present a fictionalized version of this common occurrence that is as interesting as the real ...CONTINUE
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Traveling great distances is only possible because the laws of nature remain unchanged. But if that wasn’t the case, then taking a trip could be, well, a trip. Just ask Robot, the 11-year-old girl whose travel is at the ...CONTINUE
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The legend of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table has been told and retold, and in many different ways, from Monty Python to Bugs Bunny to the Transformers. And yet none of them have Arty ...CONTINUE
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