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No Book Left Unread

There are many movements that seek to impose a certain type of book on people: people should make an effort to read books by ethnic minorities, people should commit to read only books by women for a year, people should … Continue reading →

The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan

Combining the perspective of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged with a catalogue of advanced technologies, Istvan creates a book that is more polemic than plot. Coming toward the end of his university course and vituperated for his radical transhumanist agenda, Jethro … Continue reading →

10 Reasons you stop writing your book and why to ignore them

Originally posted on Suffolk Scribblings:
There isn’t a writer alive that hasn’t stopped writing, whether as a planned break or simply because they got out of the habit. It’s happened to me in the past and I’m sure it will…

A Window On My Upgrade Experience

I received my download of Windows 10 on Friday morning. So on Friday afternoon, I installed it on the laptop I use for scratty little tasks (and to tide me over if my desktop develops an issue that stops me … Continue reading →

The Power of Six by Nicholas C. Rossis

Unafraid to place questions of ethics and perception at the heart of the story, Rossis creates a collection that is more than weird aliens and heroic fights. Several of the stories have a surprise ending: while I have attempted to … Continue reading →

More Than One Kind of Woman Can be a Hero: Guest Post by Samantha Bryant

In a variation from both the usual author, today’s post is written by Samantha Bryant whose novel, Going Through the Change: A Menopausal Superhero Novel, I reviewed a few months ago. Portrayals of women in speculative fiction have come a … Continue reading →

First Is All That Matters?

The tendency to leap to the worst conclusions revealed in this talk almost made me abandon Twitter altogether: If the lede reads like verbose click-bait, that is because it is; despite my hope it wouldn’t. I attempted to create a … Continue reading →

The Mussorgsky Riddle by Darin Kennedy

Filled with the looming horror, comedy, hope, gritty images, and soaring possibilities of its inspiration, Kennedy has created a novel that encompasses several genres without sacrificing the depth of any. Mira Tejedor makes her career as a psychic, finding people … Continue reading →

The End Is In Sight

Today’s article on Live to Write – Write to Live is about not finishing books. Which, as such discussion always do, reminded me that I can name all the books I haven’t finished since I was fifteen; which sounds like … Continue reading →

Rarely Pure and Never Simple.

While a significant proportion of books fail Immerse Or Die on usage, punctuation, or other technical issues, reader disbelief has tripped more than one. Often it is the actually implausible, but sometimes the issue is reality seeming impossible. So, assuming … Continue reading →