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Review: S.E. Anderson’s Starstruck

In honor of the fact that it’s the holidays and life is supposed to be cheerful, this week’s blog is devoted to my review of S.E. Anderson’s Starstruck. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I started reading this book. I had been assured that it was science fiction, and the description compares it […]

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Fun With Spammers

Or, how to make sure your comments never see the light of day Continuing the tradition of blogging about things that bug me, this week’s episode is about spammers. Not the kind that turn up in your DMs or your spam folder, but the kind awaiting moderation in your blog’s comments. I’d also like to […]

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Endure Review

This week on the author blog, Leland Lydecker reviews a book about his home town that gets almost everything wrong. That’s right, it’s Craig Martelle’s Endure: End Times in Alaska! Endure has garnered a lot of criticism for eschewing the explicit violence, conservative values, and thinly-veiled racism that are common components of the Post-Apocalyptic genre. I […]

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Facebook Is Watching You… For Your Own Good

Content warning: this post discusses suicide, depression, traumatic events, and Facebook’s unwillingness to protect their users from credible threats. Hello folks! I’m guessing that by now most of you have heard about Facebook’s new “proactive suicide detection” AI. Reactions have ranged from relief to disbelief to outright horror, but Facebook has already made it abundantly […]

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The Holidays

I’ve been informed that we’ve entered the holiday season. Oh, I know that the Christmas decorations went up in stores about a month ago, but I’ve gotten pretty good at ignoring those. As a functioning adult, I’ve earned the right to forego participating in these social traditions. I have my own place, so I’m not […]

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Trackers: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series Review

Today on the author blog, Leland Lydecker reviews Trackers: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Warning: contains spoilers.   As the title suggests, the Trackers series chronicles the struggles of the survivors of an apocalyptic event. That event is the detonation of several high-altitude EMPs over the contiguous United States. The attack is […]

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Leland Lydecker Reviews The Mask of Tamrel

Today on the author blog Leland Lydecker reviews The Mask of Tamrel, the first book in Scott J Couturier’s Magistricide series. It’s not often that I come across a book I unequivocally like, so keep in mind that this a rare statement when I say that The Mask of Tamrel is the best work of fantasy I’ve read in a […]

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Cyberpunk Is Now

I’ve heard a lot of talk about how cyberpunk is over. Its predictions of brain jacks and virtual reality never came true. It hasn’t aged well. In some ways, that’s is true. The classic, 80s-inspired neon dystopia looks pretty dated. Fashion and architecture have moved on. Culture and social standards have evolved. But cyberpunk is […]

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