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October 7, 2013
SF Books Releasing This Week: Oct. 8, 2013
Welcome to a new series at Adventures in SciFi Publishing. My goal for this is to make it easier for you, the reader, to find each week’s release of “all” the science fiction and fantasy books (and all sub-genres in between–yeah, I’m talking to you Amish Vampires in Space lovers). I subscribe to most of […]
October 4, 2013
Book Review: THE MACHINE by James Smythe
My first experience reading James Smythe was discovering his novel, The Explorer, a book which became my Top 3 read of 2012. It hooked me from the first sentence and gave me a story that was never boring, creating strong empathy for the main character’s plight in a fast-paced adventure through time and space, literally. […]
October 3, 2013
Book Review and Giveaway: THREE by Jay Posey
All mutants, zombies, monsters, aliens and other semi-sentient beings aside, the end of the world leaves behind a surprising number of survivors – human survivors. That human detritus makes a surprising recovery regardless of whatever dystopian wasteland they inhabit. In Three, by Jay Posey, it’s the world before its fall that draws the reader in […]
October 1, 2013
AISFP 233 – Emma Newman, ALL IS FAIR
Brent Bowen interviews Emma Newman at the recent World Science Fiction Convention, LoneStarCon 3. Emma is a narrator and full-time author, best known for her Split Worlds series through Angry Robot Books. The Split Worlds novels are Between Two Thorns, Any Other Name, and the recently released, All is Fair. Emma has a signup newsletter […]
September 28, 2013
AISFP 232 – Kay Kenyon, A THOUSAND PERFECT THINGS
Timothy C. Ward and John Dodds interview Science Fiction and Fantasy novelist, Kay Kenyon. Her newest novel, A THOUSAND PERFECT THINGS, is currently on sale in print and ebook. The ebook has a deal going for $2.99 on Kindle, Nook, and Apple’s iBooks, expiring Tuesday. Discussed: What inspired Kay to begin an alternate history, fantasy […]
September 27, 2013
Selected Deals from Amazon’s $6 mp3 Sale
In case there’s anyone out there whose music tastes where developed in the 90′s and early 2000′s, here’s a collection of albums I’m pondering that you might want as well. There are so many albums in this 6th Anniversary deal, (like 31 pages in single categories), that this may save you some time. All of […]
September 26, 2013
Tim and Rachel Review: Castle Premiere, Season Six
I have been married to Rachel Ward for 50… months, yes we still celebrate monthaversaries, they’re awesome, and monthly.We are both a little geeky withour TV andmovie tastes. I like post-apocalyptic movies with quality story and action, and she just wants the girl to get the guy in the end. Other titles we’ve reviewed: TV […]
September 24, 2013
Book Review: STAR WARS: EMPIRE AND REBELLION: RAZOR’S EDGE by Martha Wells
The Star Wars Expanded Universe has grown immensely since the early days when George Lucas gave the go-ahead to Timothy Zahn and a few others to begin writing stories that went beyond the original trilogy. There were the comic books too, of course. Then the prequels occurred – and things went the way of an […]
September 23, 2013
Netflix Pick: Revolution Season 1
Revolution, a show produced by J.J. Abrams about a post-apocalyptic America fifteen years after all the power has gone out, created high hopes of what another TV show, Jericho, could have been, and maybe a little bit of The Walking Dead. Asking for that and a similar addictive experience to the mystery and adventure of […]
September 22, 2013
AISFP 231 – DemiCon “Working with David Weber”
David Weber and his team of highly cool and intelligent nerds at BuNine have a discussion at DemiCon 24. They just released a book, House of Steel (Honor Harrington), where this kind of background information could be read, but hearing them chat is funny and includes Q and A from the audience. For the first […]
