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Excerpt: The Darker Side

EXCERPT FROM “THE DARKER SIDE”

Here he was now. Here he was now, after all this time. Boot heels sinking down into the slippery soft mud, he cast Tarah’s favorite flowers into the murky water. He watched their slow procession into the vein of the river until they were swallowed up by the dark.

What was he doing? Tarah was long dead. She wasn’t coming back. What the hell was he doing here after all this time?

He saw it then, that thing. A shadowy figure stood upright, expelling air in ragged bre...

Maya Angelou on Freedom: A 1973 Conversation with Bill Moyers | Brain Pickings

Maya Angelou on Freedom: A 1973 Conversation with Bill Moyers | Brain Pickings.

Maya Angelou – rally for Barack Obama, 2008

This post is just one of the reasons Brain Pickings has been my favorite website lately.

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Signal Omnibus

Signal Omnibus is a collection of ten science fiction short stories by Tonya R. Moore.

An experimental pilot and her intelligent ship come under fire. A woman falls for a vampire she believes is her ticket to adventure among the stars. Killer gynoids, spy androids and mad cities inhabit the earth. A child receives a cosmic message in a bottle. Space-faring miners encounter a legendary asteroid. At earth’s twilight, an earthbound deity haunts a retired witch.

Excerpt:

The guy questioning her–Insp...

Tribute Omnibus

TRIBUTE Omnibus is a collection of five short stories and ten flash fiction pieces spanning the urban fantasy, horror and literary fiction genres.

Discover one artist’s unusual choice of canvas. A hapless traveler encounters a devious monster in the backwoods. A primitive monster brings an urban nightmare to life. Two mediums and a psychic wrestle with their gifts–read these and other short tales in Tribute Omnibus.

Do you remember that time so long ago, before you could walk on only two feet?...

Anime & Manga Possible Futures – The SF Hub

My article for spec-fiction.ca: Anime, Manga and Possible Futures is now online.

Speculative fiction stories in particular, leap vividly to life in anime and manga. Well drawn SF manga and well executed SF anime titillate on a highly cerebral level. They entertain and provoke us. They electrify the imagination…

[READ the full Article] – spec-fiction.ca

Suisei no Gargantia (Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet)

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Sorry but no, this has nothing to do with fish so please forgive the cheeky pic. I simply could not resist. Actually, I came across this puzzling phrase while reading a certain manga. Naturally, I wanted to clearly understand the meaning.

I did a bit of web-searching but couldn’t really find any definite references to the origin of the term. From what I’ve read, “world crossing beta” borrows from studies of the animal kingdom, as related to the old A and B personality type models studied in ps...

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Voyager 1: It's Officially Out

Reblogged from Lights in the Dark:

"We made it! 35 years and 13 billion miles." Those were the words of project scientist Ed Stone today during a NASA news conference about the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which, after traveling the far reaches of our Solar System for decades on end, has finally passed the physical boundaries of the heliosphere and entered interstellar space.* (Yes, for real this time!

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Tightrope Cat in The Speed of Dark

Tightrope Cat in The Speed of Dark

It was an old story from say, three years ago maybe? A week or so before Halloween, I’d found myself wanting to try my hand at writing an honest-to-goodness bit of chiller lore. T’was the season, I guess. The result of that little literary jaunt was this monster fic–Tightrope Cat–replete with the required dose of insanity, heebie-jeebies and the like.

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The Light Offering

Tiamaht stands at the water’s edge in the deepest, darkest part of the valley and she waits. Moon wanes and thickest fog slides slowly down from the top of the mountain. The blind oracle waits there patiently for hours. She waits there, sheltered in the arms of the forest with only the sounds of the wind moving through the wood and the worms twisting under the skin of the earth to keep her company.



She stands there waiting with the hem of her dress trailing in the muddy water with her fingers...