Category: Guest posts
I participated in March for Science in Washington D. C. The signs were fabulous. The single topic that marchers depicted the most often was…
When I began writing my political/sci fi thrillers in the Vexton Series back in 2012, I had a deep interest in the topic of…
Author and Magic buff Titus Chalk says there’s no better time to take up the iconic fantasy card game. There’s a strong chance, if…
Typically, in science fiction, stories are told from the point of view of the most relatable characters. Scrappy human freedom fighters, rebels, and malcontents…
I thought it would be easy to destroy Earth. Oh, was I naïve . . . I’ve always loved the control that I feel…
I was in an undergraduate art history lecture, sometime in the early nineties, when the idea for the book first came to me. The…
I’ve always loved scary stories. I remember reading Stephen King books when I was probably way too young, starting with “Pet Sematary” when I…
Never Dead Enough, book three in J-L- Doty’s self-published urban fantasy series, The Dead Among Us is going to be released on February 1st…
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the trolley problem as envisioned by future artificial intelligence (AI) in driverless cars that will be…
(Minor spoiler alert if you haven’t read Linesman or Alliance.) In our Linesman series of books, Ean Lambert comes from a world called Lancia. …
Welcome to The Untold Tale read-along! The Untold Tale by J.M. Frey is the first book in the Accidental Turn series, the second book…
It all started once I decided to stop trying to write in first person point of view, and switched to third person omniscient. Once…
The first time I arrived in Vienna, as a jet-lagged 20-year-old on a 6-month college exchange program, I thought… Well, okay. My real first…
BINARY STORM by will be published by Angry Robot November 1 (US/Can) / November 3 (UK/RoW). A streetwise computer wiz, his politically savvy girlfriend…
Time travel is an enduring concept in fiction. Part of the reason is that it can provide all sorts of narrative opportunities – characters…
Following our recent interview with William, we’re very pleased to read what he has to say about that SF trope, dystopias. Why do we…
How does a writer go about creating a magical system when magic isn’t ‘real’? Fortunately, we have centuries’ worth of books, letters, writings and…
One of my first loves is nearly dead. I’d like to try to breathe some life back into her—but I need your help. I’m…
Fantasy and reality, my two favorite opposites, better than Yin and Yang, up and down, Simon and Garfunkel. For me fantasy is about reality,…
My characters, I choose to think, are free to do as they please, within the confines of their stories. But of course, they don’t…