At a time when chaos reigns supreme, and every week brings another heartbreak (R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen), there’s something nice about playing a vintage pinball machine while sitting on your own couch. Which is exactly what you get from ...CONTINUE
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They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. And, it stands to reason, by its title, either. But you’d forgiven for doing just that with David Wong’s new comedic sci-fi novel Zoey Punches The Future In The ...CONTINUE
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Since 2005, writer Carrie Vaughn has written more than a dozen urban fantasy tales about Kitty Norville, an advice-dispensing werewolf. But she’s also, in the same time, written even more short stories set in the same fictional universe. In ...CONTINUE
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There was a time when people who heard voices were thought to be possessed or be witches or have some kind of supernatutal affliction; now we know they have schizophrenia or some other mental issue. But what if they ...CONTINUE
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With a mix of fantasy and cyberpunk sci-fi, you’d expect Wayne Santos’ The Chimera Code (which is out now for Kindle, and will be released in paperback on November 10th) to be influenced by games and anime. But ...CONTINUE
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The idea of using robots to tell a story about slavery is hardly new. But in Madeline Ashby’s Machine Dynasty novels, she does something we don’t see as often: she tells the robot slave tale from the perspective of ...CONTINUE
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As unique as her novel Asperfell may be, writer Jamie Thomas is well aware that she’s not the first person to write a Gothic fantasy story. Though she may be the first in a while to do so in ...CONTINUE
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The “simulation hypothesis” is a theory that we may actually just be part of an artificial simulation. Think The Matrix if it was the whole universe, not just a big city. But if that’s true, what happens when the ...CONTINUE
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Is religious science fiction a thing? It seems like it should be a thing. I’m making it a thing, and I’m going to start with Ada Hoffmann’s new space opera, The Outside (paperback, Kindle), which isn’t religious ...CONTINUE
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