With The Rush’s Echo (paperback, Kindle), author Ginger Smith is completing the story she began in 2020’s The Rush’s Edge. In the following email interview, Smith discusses what inspired and influenced this semi-romantic, somewhat military, ...CONTINUE
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If you know anything about wishes — be they granted by djinn, monkey’s paws, or some other magical way — you know there’s often a price to be paid. But what if the price was monetary; what if the ...CONTINUE
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Any new novel written about a plague or pandemic will inevitably be assumed to be about Covid. But in the following email interview about her post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi novel Borrowed (paperback, Kindle), Kaley notes that hers ...CONTINUE
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With Lair Of The Crystal Fang (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer S.A. Sidor is leading his third trip to the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired world of the board game Arkham Horror. In the following email interview, Sidor ...CONTINUE
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With Poor Man’s Sky (hardcover, Kindle), writer Wil McCarthy is continuing the series of hard sci-fi space opera / political spy thriller novels he started with 2021’s Rich Man’s Sky. Though as he explains in ...CONTINUE
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Six years ago, the staff of Apex Magazine chronicled their finest fictional moments in the anthology The Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1. But in the new book, Apex Magazine 2021 (paperback, Kindle), they’ve taken ...CONTINUE
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2022 was easily the best year for games in, well, I can’t remember how long (as you can see from my companion piece, “The Best Video Games Of 2022“). But that doesn’t mean there weren’t some real ...CONTINUE
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Usually when we think of scary stories, we think of movies, novels, video games, but not poetry. This despite the fact that one of the most famous poems of all time, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” is a dark ...CONTINUE
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For years, I’ve started my “Best Video Games Of [insert year here]” lists by lamenting how it was a terrible year for games, but that there were some bright spots. Not this year. 2022 was easily the best year ...CONTINUE
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