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May 31, 2019
Between A Rock & A Storm Part II: A Clue
When the body of an influential visitor washes up on a remote Alaskan beach, Danny, Ava, and Cam find themselves in a storm of trouble. New to this series? Check out Part I here. The surf roared against the narrow beach, and an icy rain pelted their faces as the trio stared at each […]
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May 24, 2019
Don’t Blink: A Flash Fiction
Congratulations! You survived another week. Your joy at finally reaching the point where you can get a full night’s sleep is tempered by the realization that the weeks are going by faster and faster, and you’re not getting anywhere. You’re just getting a little more tired and a little farther behind each time. It’s like […]
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May 17, 2019
Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I finally got around to reading Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And although I had no idea what to expect going in, it was still nothing like what I expected. Rick Deckard is a police bounty hunter, “retiring” escaped androids that pose a vague threat to Earth’s remaining human population. His […]
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May 10, 2019
Review: Dredd
For the purpose of disambiguation, this review is of Dredd (2012), starring Karl Urban as Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby as trainee Judge Anderson. When Dredd and Anderson respond to a grisly triple homicide in the high rise mega slum of Peach Trees, they have no idea that they’re walking into the heart of a […]
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May 3, 2019
Review: Redemption of Sisyphus
In the thrilling conclusion to Eric Michael Craig’s solar system-spanning Shan Takhu Legacy series, the fearless crew of the ice-harvesting research vessel Jakob Waltz, the remnants of the Human Union, and the rebels of Fleet Cartel battle an AI bent on saving the human race from itself by any means necessary. The AI Odysseus proves […]
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April 26, 2019
Between A Rock & A Storm
Steely grey swells rolled under leaden skies as Danny steered the skiff around the tip of Dog-Ear Point. He released the throttle and let the craft glide to a stop beside the faded plastic buoy that marked one of his family’s few remaining crab pots. Ava snagged the chain with her boat hook, and together […]
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April 19, 2019
Blood & Bluegrass
Author’s note: Blood and Bluegrass takes place immediately after the events of The Moon Buck. If you haven’t already, take a moment to give the previous story a read! The tracks were the same. Annabelle stared at the impressions in the muddy leaf mold, ears ringing from a sudden surge of adrenaline. The story was there, […]
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April 12, 2019
Spaceflight & The Death of Heroes
A little while back someone asked me why I post artwork of dead astronauts. (For the purposes of disambiguation, I’m talking about artwork like this, this, and this.) There’s something both chilling and deeply saddening about these images. I don’t post that much art that involves zombies or dead bodies– zombies and gore for the […]
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April 5, 2019
Review: Fulcrum of Odysseus
The discoveries made by the crew of the Jakob Waltz in the cold darkness of the outer solar system have set off a catastrophic chain of events, fatally destabilizing the fragile balance of power among the factions of the Human Union. Worse, they’ve inadvertently activated a doomsday failsafe created to protect humanity in the event […]
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March 29, 2019
Review: Soul Jacker
Michael John Grist’s Soul Jacker is easily one of the most unusual and thought-provoking cyberpunk novels out there. This book is up there with the classics of the genre in terms of style, narrative voice, and introduction of new concepts. Grist has built a world that is strange and fascinating both inside and out: memories […]
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