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Help with writing; short fiction by Aun-Juli; and Ignition
Helping writers with mental models and crafting their first page; The Grief Portal by Aun-Juli Riddle; and Nuclear Fusion.…
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Super short stories, massive bacteria, Cixin Liu coming to Netflix
Meditative short stories by Yoon Ha Lee; Netflix & ChineseThree-Body Problem Adaptations; Thiomargarita Magnifica - the magnificent bacterium…
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Where it all started; thinkerly sf; and searing stories
Ursula LeGuin on a different kind of SF; Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi; Small Monsters by E. Lily Yu…
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New Year, Knightdom, Terraforming and more
Happy New Year! Let's start this year with Squire by Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas, Opening Doors by Juliet Kemp, and NASA's Chief Scientist on terraforming Mars.…
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Mini-review; Ignyte Awards; authors on authors
Fellow Frivolous,
It's time for another round up. But before I get into those, I had the fortune
of finding…
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The Cleaners by Ken Liu
Ken Liu's treatment of memory is unique in this story. As part of an anthology
for Amazon, The Cleaners [https:…
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Review: Later (audiobook) by Stephen King
Narrated by Seth Numrich
The most recent release from Stephen King was billed as “more of a crime novel”
than…
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Slow Bullets - by Alastair Reynolds
Reynolds' stories consistently work to paint the struggle of humans in a vast
universe with mysteries that threaten to debilitate…
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On "Exit West" by Mohsin Hamid
At just over 200 pages, Exit West reads like a meditation; Hamid's style is
enthralling, lulling even. Then, at the…
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On "Binti" by Nnedi Okorafor
Having grown up in Ethiopia with an avid appreciation for speculative fiction,
I've always wondered what that genre would be…